Webinar – Michelle, Andrew and colours

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Quick but very productive webinar today. I noted the feedback on my Oral Presentation, suggesting less on the background and more on the critical thinking behind my current work – which, honestly was my going-in expectation of how it would be read. I also had an opportunity to talk about Coleridge and ‘fancy versus imagination’ – reflecting how I have …

Susan Sontag – Quotes from ‘On Photography’

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Quite frankly, I am not a fan of Susan Sontag. I find her work lacking in academic rigour, and very prone to deeply personal judgment – in fact, she and Roland Barthes have much in common on these two counts. I applaud the fact that they ‘take a view’, rather than sitting on the sidelines. But, in taking those views, …