what i write:

going into the world 'with an open notebook', committing to paper what i encounter and how i experience it. articles on a ragbag of topics; language teaching, cultural events,  coffee, and drifting into the realms of psychogeography, embracing tangents as i wander the network of paths near where I live. thoroughly infected with the writing bug, i’m now tiptoeing back into academic writing, after a lengthy ‘intermission’ - examining precursors of the contemporary radical right and the formation of ideological narratives.

why i write:

to try to make sense of the essences of experience. as the narrator of piranesi puts it, ‘without the journals I would be all at sea’. after cathartic journaling, i found the confidence, perhaps the needto seek an audience. i sense that writing helps me think better (‘i usually can only think in the act of writing’, as the political theorist bernard crick put it), listen better (write-ups of talks and performances), and, perhaps, speak with greater clarity.

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