Fairytales and Erik Varden: A Renewal of Childlike Faith
byThe world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to…
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Travel Notes: On Writing, Surprise and the Self Through Time
byReading Plato’s Phaedrus, we learn that Socrates disapproved of writing. The funny thing is that Plato, who was his student, felt it appropriate to…
Inhabiting the Immersive Studio Album
byIn 2013, American actor, writer and musician Donald Glover told an interviewer in promotion of his upcoming studio album: ‘I don’t want to make…
To ‘Listen Without Prejudice’: On the Necessity of Loving Music I Don’t Always Like
byLest anyone remains among Transpositions readership who has missed the copious memos, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have released records. In an era where our…
Much Ado about Nothingness
byA version of this reflection was delivered for the opening of Transept’s 2024 exhibition (a)void, hosted between 6–10 April in St Andrews. Transept is…
Existentialist Lana Del Rey
by‘What you doin’ with your life? Do you think about it? Do you contemplate where we came from?’ So sings Lana Del Rey in…
The Taste of Things is a Phenomenological Feast
by‘Wine is the intellectual side of a meal. Meat and vegetables are the material side.’ —Dodin Bouffant, The Taste of Things If one…