With Kristian (Kristiansen) and Lotte (Hedeager). Talking about jazz on vinyl and prehistoric Europe – with salt from Hallstatt, the great cemetery site of the early iron age in the Salzkammergut, near Salzburg. The salt of Hallstatt at Hindås
(past) presences
In theory: the death of literature
An intelligent feature in The Guardian by Andrew Gallix on Tuesday 10 January. The topic – “we’ve heard it all before” – [Link]. “We come too late to say anything which has not been said already,” lamented La Bruyère at the end of the 17th century. The fact that he came too late even to…
Boonville, California
I have been photographing these old apple trees for over ten years now. Relics of an outdated rural economy. Location – Mountain View Road, Boonville, Anderson Valley, northern California. The valley is now increasingly dominated by vineyards.
presence and authenticity – routes to civility
A perceptive item in the Guardian yesterday, from Simon Jenkins: Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility – via Facebook and Lady Gaga. The point – our contemporary world is a mixed reality – witness the growing importance (again) of “live events”, even as we are more connected digitally: A week in California…
Olivier – Le sombre abîme du temps
Laurent Olivier’s wonderful book Le sombre abîme du temps has just appeared in translation (as The dark abyss of time: memory and archaeology) – [Link] Laurent offers profound elaboration of the fundamental insight that the past is all around us, before us, in material traces, that presence is filled with the past, that the future…
Romaldkirk, Teesdale
Lunch at the Rose and Crown in this extraordinary village – as if of the eighteenth century. Richard (Hingley) – discussing things Roman
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