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Radical knitting

August 16, 2004 Animation
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During my stay at the Digital Poetics and Politics institute at Queen’s University, I learned all about the radical potential of knitting from Kirsty, one of my co-participants. An unlikely combination, perhaps, until you actually start to think about it more deeply. Knitting is, in itself, a remarkably rich metaphor when considering issues of gender [...]

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Let the bad color not be seen. It attracts Them.

July 28, 2004 Blog
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There is such a thing as society.

July 12, 2004 Blog

Ten years ago, Andrew Howard, writing in Eye magazine, declared that ‘There is such a thing as society’. His article referenced Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher’s notorious utterance, in 1987, that ‘there is no such thing as society’. Howard’s piece also proved to be both a decisive moment in the relaunch of 1964′s First Things First [...]

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