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Whitby mudstone / performed by The Long Dead Stars (Claire Hind and Rob Wilsmore)
No full textComposer Robert Wilsmore and writer and performer Claire Hind, collectively The Long Dead Stars, are collaborating on an Electronic Dance Poetry, sound inspired by the geology of the North Yorkshire coastline. Claire and Robert bring together creative descriptions of how rocks move and become, through words and through the corporeal experience of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). We lend our voices, our words, our music to the chorus of those concerned with the future in an Anthropocene epoch. We align with the flattened ontology of Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Jane Bennet and others, that level the rock-human world through the ‘force of things’ (Bennett, 2004) and where ‘all art is ecology’ (Morton, 2021).
We can feel rocks against our bodies, we can feel the beat of the music within our bodies, we can feel the beat of the moving rocks within our bodies. Time moves on, and time is only things moving (if only we knew what ‘things’ are, or what ‘moving’ is?). We can, however, have experiences that help us think and feel in a way that may change, for the better, how we engage with the world.
Written out of their research interests in geology and walking performance as a philosophical, collaborative composition, Claire and Rob have been dancing with Mudstone, with Siltstone and Peak Steel, and the Dogger Formations of the Ravenscar Coastline, up through to Sandsend and have specific interest in listening to rock, to write Electronic Dance Poetry (EDP). The lyrics are inspired by Claire’s practice of embodying geological rock
English as a Lingua Franca as an expression of linguistic diversity : A cognitive perspective
Get PDFTimelines in researching student teachers’ well-being during teaching practice
Get PDFResearching well-being has gained popularity over the last decades however, research methodologies have employed mostly surveys, and the use of qualitative and visual methods is still scarce. This study discusses using timelines as a tool for researching the well-being of student teachers in two different cultural contexts. Research data includes researchers’ notes as well as focus groups and students’ notions of using timelines as a course assignment, analyzed using thematic analysis. This study shares our justification for using qualitative, visual methods to collect data related to well-being and evaluates the strengths and limitations of timelining as a tool to do this, from both the participants’ and researchers’ viewpoints. The study argues that timelines have the potential not only to support reflections on well-being but also to provide an approach to support it during teacher training and beyond. The use of timelines as tools to explore the non-linear and dynamic experiences of well-being during student teachers’ teaching practice in Finland and England will be discussed and recommendations for the further development of this approach shared
Building an Intelligent Edge Environment to Provide Essential Services for Smart Cities
Get PDFSmart Cities will cause major societal change because they will provide a comprehensive set of key services including seamless communication, intelligent transport systems, advanced healthcare platforms, urban and infrastructure management, and digital services for local and regional government. Thus, a new service and networking environment which will provide low latency and sustainable high bandwidth is needed to build new applications and services for smart cities. In this system services will be managed from the edge of the Internet and not from the centre as they currently are. This represents a new computing paradigm which is called the Intelligent Edge Environment. This paper looks at how to build this new ecosystem. Firstly, a new framework which comprises seven layers is unveiled, showing the functions that must be supported to realise this brave new world. New mechanisms are then introduced and a small prototype is developed to support storage in highly mobile environments. The results show that this approach could be used to build smart city digital platforms. The paper ends by discussing the development of a Distributed Operating System for smart cities
Bound by Elusiveness
Get PDFThis article considers Folk Horror cinema and its place in the nascent discipline of transnational cinema studies. This will argue that both Folk Horror and transnational cinema are not genres in any traditional sense, but rather semi-organised ways of considering cinema which have been galvanised in and around the twenty-first century and the rising prominence of transnational cinema studies and the Folk Horror ‘revival’, both of which share similar characteristics and, at times,coalesce in narratives which can be seen as transnational Folk Horror films. As Yang and Healey state: ‘Disordered landscapes in the Gothic represent the chaos of a culture in transition, or the violence of passions seething beneath the veneer of civilised society. Gothic landscapes are a lens by which cultures reflect back their darkness hidden from the light of consciousness’ (2016, 5)
a hot sound
No full text'a hot sound' from 'Skirting' is published in this issue of Poetry & Audience, volume 51(1).
Edited by Jon Gilbert and Blaise Sales.
The student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience' was founded by student Ralph Maud in 1953, and is one of the longest running poetry magazines in the United Kingdom. Despite its humble origins as a cyclostyled, one-penny, student journal produced approximately once a week during term time, it quickly developed an international reputation and has published some of the most distinguished poets of the late twentieth century