Reading Montaigne in 2011
What is going on, culturally speaking, when a person finds themself reading a classic text from say the 16th century, like Montaigne’s Essays, in the form of a 21st century electronic book? I’ve been...
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Back from Chile
Back from my trip a week ago, I buried myself in editing the video I shot in Chile on the student movement, which screens on Saturday 3 December at the Latin American solidarity conference in London...
View ArticleJury Service in Digital Times
It’s only late in life—I’m in my sixties—that I find myself being summoned for jury service. Like all of us, I’ve seen innumerable court room dramas, in films and on television—fiction, docudramas and...
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Remembering Richard Attenborough
This is how I remember Richard Attenborough—setting up a shot for Oh! What a Lovely War, in a photo I took myself. He’s the one in the hat. The news of his death takes me back to where I started,...
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Back from Mexico
Normally I don’t do selfies, but this is special. Back from at the Filmoteca In Mexico City and at UNAM Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Had dinner with friends (hosted...
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Politics in Putney
This is really interesting. Taken from voteforpolicies.org.uk – a really worthwhile website – try it.
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Levellers unearthed
A story Putney Debater cannot ignore… What Crossrail’s unearthed Levellers could teach us about today’s world...
View ArticleA chance encounter with Kiarostami
In May 2005 I bought a new pocket-sized video camera. The next day I took it with me to try out when I went to visit Kiarostami’s installation, ‘Forest Without Leaves’, at the Victoria & Albert...
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Unexploded bombs
On Friday, here on the riverside at Putney, they started setting up the outside broadcast cameras for the Boat Race, the annual jamboree when Putney gets to be briefly seen on screens around the world....
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Access Restored
So, Putney Debater is back after my websites got hacked and went offline. A salutary lesson in what happens if you just leave things ticking over instead of constantly upgrading, because one of the...
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