Whenever I give it too much thought, I realise that I am deeply conflicted about the idea of being an artist. On the one hand I don’t seem to be able to stop making things – I can freestyle project ideas like nothing else, I always have several projects on the go and many more [...]

I wonder how one comes to claim the title of ‘futurologist’? I have come across a few of them touting their soothwares on YouTube recently. I am thinking about setting up a ‘near future prediction service’ for the Americas…. ‘Well ladies and gentlemen, May the 25th 2008 is looking pretty good so far.’ The term [...]

Recently I was browsing around in the State Library and, flipping through a book on cleanliness, I happened upon a discussion regarding the importance of the transition to individual bathing and sleeping arrangements in the development of modern (western) individual subjectivity. Walter J. Ong has similar things to say about the transition from orality to [...]

I have never been all that good at focusing on one thing at a time. For example, when I clean I usually start with one task, get distracted and start on another, and then another and another until I come back to the original task do a little more, get distracted and start on another [...]

A recent study hitting all the papers (yes they did their PR well) suggests that certain types of ‘brain exercises’ may increase neuroplasticity and have lasting effects on brain function. Well I have always been quite distressed at the thought of age related brain decline so I was immediately sucked in and now have a [...]