Come along to The Castle Hotel at 7pm to listen to Joe’s talk. Share a crust of bread, and learn what he has to share…
Joe Harrison Greaves
Enjoying the Scenery: Slow Education and the Slow movement in a fast world
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Come along to The Castle Hotel at 7pm to listen to Jana’s talk. Share a crust of bread, and learn what she has to share…
Jana Wendler
Treasures in phone boxes – street games and play in the city
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Come along to The Brassmonkey on Drummond Street at 6.30pm for two films and a discussion. About Film is a monthly film night, we show a film and then have a group discussion afterwards. Everyone is invited to participate and no prior knowledge is required. It is not necessary to ‘book’ a place as the event will be open to all, but committing to coming will give us a heads-up about numbers.
Come along to People Know How, first floor in Ocean Terminal from 6pm to listen to Alex tell us about Mad Studies…
Mad Studies; The Emergence of a New Field of Knowledge by Alex Dunedin
Come along to People Know How, first floor in Ocean Terminal from 6pm to listen to Mike tell us about his theory of evolution as based on football…
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Homo Passiens is a book that claims man evolved bipedalism to play football. Crazy – yes, but good fun for sure?
When I was a child I lived near a large pond which backed onto a wood. In spring the pond would fill with frog spawn. I remember waiting till the tadpoles emerged out of the gelatinous mass of spawn and catching a few up in a large jar. I’d endeavour to recreate the pond ecosystem in the jar- a haphazard process of topping it up with smelly pond water and strewing the water with pondweed – and wait for the tadpoles to transform into frogs.To my consternation, though their four legs sprouted and their tails began to retract they never made it to adulthood. Read more…
This article takes an excerpt of an important book for both its historical context and it’s content. In the field of Mad Studies – an emerging area of study in academia which, although a part of formal education, extends well beyond its borders – the ideas presented in the book hold a high degree of relevance. In this book ‘Mental Seduction and Menticide; The Psychology of Thought Control and Brainwashing‘ by Dr Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, various notions of mental coercion are discussed in context with the dangers of totalitarianism and domination of the individual. Read more…