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The Words Already Around Us
Full text linkIn this dialogue H. L. Hix and Rupert Loydell discuss the reasons for “impersonal” methodologies in writing, in response to the overcrowded information age we live in and to fragmentation, appropriation and remixology. Philosophy, creativity, politics and the personal inform this debate, with the authors interrogating one another’s recent and past books of poetry as a springboard to think about the nature of 21st Century writing and current poetics
The filmmakers' gaze
Full text linkDrawing on the plurality of audio-visual archive sources that portray Padstow May Day, in this chapter Monk, Tattersall, and Santi explore the relationships between filmmaker and subject in the transmission and expression of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Drawing on Mulvey’s ‘male gaze’ this chapter considers the ‘filmmakers’ gaze’ comprising the person behind the camera, the on-screen participant, and the viewer or spectator. The authors consider how the positionality of the self as insider or outsider can emerge as much from the filmmaker or subject themselves and explore a more nuanced relationship between filmmaker and subject that could potentially contribute to the resilience of ICH. Sources discussed span nearly a hundred years of audio-visual representations, from the earliest filmed recording, Summer is Y…Comen in by British Pathé, through Alan Lomax’s seminal ethnographic work Oss Oss Wee Oss!, to more recent instances including BBC news features, and contemporary documentary films, including a first-person reflection from Barbara Santi, director of King for a Day. The authors conclude by adapting Fisher, Patton and Ury’s ‘zone of negotiation’ into a ‘zone of cultural osmosis’ as a tool with which to analyse – or self-reflectively to shape – these varying positionalities
Avatar, Community, and lore
Full text linkThe use of digital avatars in live streaming, called VTubing, has seen a steady rise over the past 5 years. The increase in VTubing has had transformational effects on streaming as a practice, and on game culture in a larger sense. Previous work on VTubing indicates that the creation of the digital avatar is a central aspect of the practice. This work also indicates that the presence of the avatar is a major draw to performers and viewers, and changes perceptions of the stream for both. However much present work focuses on larger audience VTubers, or those who are backed by a studio. This work investigates a question and answer forum for VTubers to understand their perception of the practice in terms of day-to-day requests for information and advice. It contributes a framework of VTubing as a practice that can be built upon in future theoretical work within this domain
Lost in Space
Full text linkAlbum review of Jon Savage's Space: Light Years from Home, Music is a Message from Space and Rob Mazurek's Alternate Moon Cycle
The Feasibility of Ambulatory Heart Rate Variability Monitoring in Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury
Full text linkThe polyvagal theory proposes that the autonomic nervous system influences affective systems and top‐down emotional regulation. Vagal tone, as indexed by heart rate variability (HRV), is a measure of emotion regulation capacity. It is possible that non‐suicidal self‐injury (NSSI) occurs at times of low vagal tone and that NSSI may increase it. Little is known about the feasibility of collecting ambulatory HRV data in the context of NSSI. This prospective observational study examined the feasibility of ambulatory HRV monitoring during NSSI. Ten participants wore a chest‐based heart rate monitor and used a diary app for 1 week. Baseline characteristics were collected. Heart rate monitoring duration, diary app entries, distress scores, and NSSI occurrences were recorded. Participant experience was assessed in a post‐study questionnaire. At baseline, six had a history of NSSI, in two of whom it was current. Ten participants wore the monitor for an average of 137 h. Nine participants successfully used the diary app, making an average of 14 entries over a week. Although no NSSI occurred during the study, the overall experience of participation was positive. It is feasible to monitor HRV and collect app‐based distress scores for a week, including in those with NSSI history
Consciousness, Capitalism and Costume in Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (2023)
Full text linkIn Ruben Östland’s Triangle of Sadness (2023), two fashion models spend much
of a luxury cruise documenting their experience on social media until a catastrophic
storm and an attack by pirates reduces marauders, crew and the urban
sophisticates aboard to savagery. This article makes use of concepts and methodologies
applied to film by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to explore how
Triangle’s costumes, by Sophie Krunegård, can be read as expressing the relationship
between beauty, fashion and ideology. Applying Žižek’s tripartite structure of
Freudian superego, ego and id to the film’s three sections, his notions of the Real,
the Symptom and the Master Signifier are explored to further reveal how costume
offers glimpses of the characters’ repressed and fetishistic attitudes to money, material
goods and status
DO ANIMALS
No full textDO ANIMALS is a five-year programme of creative practice research led by Huw Lewis- Jones that investigates how illustrated, narrative-driven children’s non-fiction can function as a legitimate research methodology within the environmental humanities. Through humour, visual storytelling, and a recurring authorial presence grounded in field expertise, the books explore how young readers encounter animals, develop environmental understanding, and form ethical relationships with the living world. The project positions children’s publishing not as dissemination alone but as a site of inquiry, collaboration, and knowledge-making, extending research into schools, festivals, and international cultural contexts.
DO ANIMALS is a portfolio submission comprising four illustrated non-fiction books for children aged 7-9 - Do Bears Poop in the Woods?, Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark?, Do Gorillas Eat Bananas?, and Do Penguins Like the Cold? - published internationally by Thames & Hudson as part of a project conceived, authored and art directed by Huw Lewis-Jones. Produced over five years, these award-winning books constitute a sustained programme of practice-based research into how illustrated narrative non- fiction can function as a form of environmental inquiry suited to the present moment of ecological crisis
The New York Times Magazine: James Barnor
No full textCommission for the The New York Times Magazine. For their Artist’s Questionnaire section. Photography the 96 year old photographer James Barnor at his home, within an elderly-housing complex west of London
MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Fifteen: Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-portraiture (Autumn 2025)
Full text linkThis special issue examines contemporary self–portraiture using feminist, new materialist, queer, crip, and critical race theory, and other theoretical approaches to present the diversity of ontological approaches within the field. It aims to push the boundaries of what constitutes a self-portrait