Notebooks and Essays

Notebooks

A collection of journals, essays, an/archives, crumbs and other fieldnotes

Speculative Theory

Practice is Persuasion (PQI)

A method that is not one.

Consciousness Raising II

Gathering forces, raising flags, and applying theory to live differently – a very breif introduction…

Consciousness Raising I

Gathering forces, raising flags, and applying theory to live differently – a very breif introduction…

Situated Movement or, naming in stereoscopic vision

Situated knowledge as lived practice – drinking tea and playing squash, walking and reading -…

40 Years in the Desert

Wandering across space and time, changing as you go.

le Deviant

Writing from post war France

Spiritual Activism

How to reconcile splitting worlds.

Compassionate Interpretation

An act of reading and writing often gone wrong.

Intimacy

Thinking with public-private tensions, intimacy, and the in/stabilities of heteronormativity and queer cultures.

Compulsory Heterosexuality, 1980

Key Concepts in FLINTA knowing and being: Adrianne Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.

Groundworks

Training Exercise

A warm up activity for reading aloud, mindfully.

Inter/Actors: A Role of Participants

When participant involvement is central, but not the centre of the subject….

Common Ground

A brief and in-progress overview of ‘the commons’ of Routes and Places.

The “L” in Question

Why the “L”, Lesbian, is involved with the gender acronym FLINTA.

Companions: A Roving Muddle

A brief introduction to companions, walking and muddles.

The Parable of the Table

Phenomenological foundations

Field/Notes

duMaurierland

… is not about Daphne du Maurier

Locals: the Pigskeys

Some fieldnotes on Cornwall’s most stealthy locals.

The Un/Common Reader

Reading and Random – Woolf’s exploration of inventing a new form for the literary essay.

A common concern at a Gender-Sexuality Nexus

A reflection on the viability of a practice-led study involving issues around gender, sexuality,…

Searching For Virginia Under a Furze Bush

Piecing together references to Barnes and Surrey in the creative and life writing of Virginia…

Visual Planes Shift

A reflection on how the field of vision impacts thought formation while walking – prompts…

Working Through Issues

The following is a pedagogy and manifesto. A metaview sketch of the ideas and procedures…

Solid Objects in the field

Devising on Barnes Common with a view of Virginia Woolf: a walk-with re/reading.

Before such Knowledge: the fascist squire

A view of the fascist dispositions of Hall and company.

Field/notes: A Start in Richmond

Devising on Barnes Common with a view of Virginia Woolf: a walk-with re/reading.

Field/Notes: The Agency of the Pivot

Whether by accident or intention, pivots are inherent to queer research.

Field/Notes: Cartographing an an/archive

It turns out, Radclyffe Hall has always had a problem of ‘evidence’.

Be thyself: Self-Fashioning Hall

Self fashioning iconic Hall

Through a Hall Backwards

Navigating a bog in un/charted territory.

Field/Notes: Archival Plot-twists

An assortment of plot-twists from the lingering summer of 2022.

A Well of Discrepancies: Hall and Company

A short history of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and companions in Malvern.

Field/notes: Brendon Hill

A genealogy of ‘speculating’ with a lens – think-with Haraway (1988), Massumi (2002) and Barthes…

Field/Notes: negotiating with friends

A series written correspondences exchanged during Malvern-area development.

Field/Notes: Domiciliation Fever (or sweltering shelter)

Making sense of a rather hot week in the archives.

Quotes and Places: the Malvern’s in Biography and Theory

A collection of notes and reflections by biographers and critics about White Cottage and the…

Church Hall and Other Specters

Hall’s Catholic conversion with Mabel Batten and the séances Hall and Troubridge turned to after…

Field/Notes

Journals, fieldnotes, and other records from reading, archives, devising, recce’s, and the general development of…

Pre/Personal Essays

Aha (finding out): When in Doubt Part VI

Part VI of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle‘ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

No There, There: When in Doubt Part V

Part V of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle‘ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

It’s (Pre)Personal: When in Doubt Part IV

Part IV of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle‘ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

A Sense of Things: When in Doubt Part III

Part III of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle‘ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

In Dis/Belief: When in Doubt Part II

Part II of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle‘ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

The Benefit: When in Doubt Part I

Part I of ‘When in Doubt’ autoethnographic companion to the walk ‘A Speculative Muddle’ (Richmond-Upon-Thames).

Bodmin Moor 2023 (a bog)

Navigating on ground that sinks under your feet (how to read water: bogs).

Bodmin Moor 2023 (a fog)

Walking across Bodmin Moor in a fog …

Neuroqueering Me Not

An introduction, automemography, and reference collection about neuroqueer and its role in this project.

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