Morag Shiach
@moragshiach.bsky.social
Literature, cultural history, modernism, music. Emerita Professor at QMUL.
Is that the sequel to Love Actually?
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Is that the sequel to Love Actually?
Our kids between them played piano, violin, saxophone, trumpet, and bass guitar. We had very patient neighbours!
June 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Our kids between them played piano, violin, saxophone, trumpet, and bass guitar. We had very patient neighbours!
A post-retirement project perhaps??
June 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A post-retirement project perhaps??
This zeitgeist stuff is definitely now tipping into the uncanny. This image also features in Electric Dreams at Tate Modern, and is the image I brought back with me as a souvenir. Why is the visual culture of the 60s/70s speaking so powerfully to our contemporary moment I wonder.
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This zeitgeist stuff is definitely now tipping into the uncanny. This image also features in Electric Dreams at Tate Modern, and is the image I brought back with me as a souvenir. Why is the visual culture of the 60s/70s speaking so powerfully to our contemporary moment I wonder.
I just saw this image for the third time today! It appears in the film I’m Still Here, which I found very powerful. You might enjoy it for its historical specificity and also for its invocation of the landscape of Rio.
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I just saw this image for the third time today! It appears in the film I’m Still Here, which I found very powerful. You might enjoy it for its historical specificity and also for its invocation of the landscape of Rio.
This is rather eerie — you are the second person I am in contact with to compare the contemporary moment with King Crimson’s art work today!
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is rather eerie — you are the second person I am in contact with to compare the contemporary moment with King Crimson’s art work today!
How about Blake’s ‘Infant Joy’ and ‘Infant Sorrow’?
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
How about Blake’s ‘Infant Joy’ and ‘Infant Sorrow’?
What a great find, it is such a striking image. Hope all is well, and wishing you a Happy Christmas!
December 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
What a great find, it is such a striking image. Hope all is well, and wishing you a Happy Christmas!
It could have been written for this moment!
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 AM
It could have been written for this moment!
Worry not, Jo, this really happened. Kept local press going I think.
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Worry not, Jo, this really happened. Kept local press going I think.
All genuine. Inverurie Loco Works is my local team, and there is some interesting economic and social history around its name!
August 28, 2024 at 8:23 AM
All genuine. Inverurie Loco Works is my local team, and there is some interesting economic and social history around its name!
Interesting to think how many Philosophy degrees in the UK continued to foreground rhetoric in the late C20. Certainly the case when I was at Glasgow University.
June 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Interesting to think how many Philosophy degrees in the UK continued to foreground rhetoric in the late C20. Certainly the case when I was at Glasgow University.
The debate as a form is not really about the pursuit of truth. It is designed to train individuals in the art of rhetoric. I rather enjoyed it in my youth. In ‘competition debates’ you are often asked to argue a proposition with which you do not agree - with results Jo mentions. I no longer debate.
June 5, 2024 at 8:45 AM
The debate as a form is not really about the pursuit of truth. It is designed to train individuals in the art of rhetoric. I rather enjoyed it in my youth. In ‘competition debates’ you are often asked to argue a proposition with which you do not agree - with results Jo mentions. I no longer debate.
Just spent an excellent week at Bard College, where Hannah Arendt’s grave can be found
May 15, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Just spent an excellent week at Bard College, where Hannah Arendt’s grave can be found
Great! I hope all goes well in the coming weeks.
May 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Great! I hope all goes well in the coming weeks.
How true! I am away next week but after that free for a chat and a coffee if you have any free time.
May 3, 2024 at 1:18 PM
How true! I am away next week but after that free for a chat and a coffee if you have any free time.