"Now you must do something much scarier. You must dare to be yourself. ***Live as you!***"Detention is a character-driven ensemble novel (90.5K words including 1 map and 7 illustrations) about fighting for freedom against the tyranny of law. Hugo Rank, an empathic detective who longs for epic tales, interrogates eight young outlaws, arrested for rioting:Sanchx, a gender-fluid con artist,Bastian, an irreverent flame-dancing juggler,...

A Raping Coronation is a visionary prose-poem written between April and August 1999.Moving through political disillusionment, spiritual crisis, cultural collapse and psychic transformation, the work refuses easy certainties and conventional resolutions.Part philosophical inquiry, part fever dream and part satirical apocalypse, it charts the progress of a consciousness unwilling to settle for partial truths.Written at the close of the twentieth century and p...

Acid Testimonies is a collection of thirty-five poems organised into six interconnected movements exploring complacency, social degradation, sexuality, institutional power, historical recurrence and metaphysical reflection.Moving from the intimate textures of everyday life towards broader questions of civilisation and identity, the collection examines recurring patterns of authority, alienation, aspiration and belief. The poems inhabit spaces between observation and testim...

The Cabinet of the Wry Witness is a poetic cabinet of curiosities.Organised into seven symbolic drawers, the collection journeys through landscapes of beauty, systems of belief, medicine, cultural spectacle, melancholy, artistic inheritance and renewal.Mountains become human levellers. Institutions become exhibits. Scientists, philosophers, conspiracists, entertainers, lovers and artists are examined with equal measures of fascination, humour, scepticism and sympathy. Throu...

Cosmetic Guillotine is a poetic anatomy of contemporary civilisation and its hidden interiors.Across five interconnected movements, Veneer, Contagion, Apparatus, Fracture and Residue, the collection traverses glamour, ideology, empire, desire, cultural illness, psychological dislocation and the search for meaning beyond systems that appear increasingly exhausted.These poems move be...

This book provides a systematic treatment of the mathematical underpinnings of work in data assimilation, covering both theoretical and computational approaches. Specifically the authors develop a unified mathematical framework in which a Bayesian formulation of the problem provides the bedrock for the derivation, development and analysis of algorithms; the many examples used in the text, together with the algorithms which are introduced and discussed, are all illustrated by the MATLAB sof...

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of int...

Performing New Orleans examines the value of arts and culture in managing complex urban challenges, offering new perspectives on how artistic and everyday performances can be pivotal modes of practicing resilience. Through an exploration of understudied forms of performance in New Orleans, Stuart Andrews and Patrick Duggan highlight the centrality of the city’s arts ecosystems as a vital aspect of its ability to “perform” resiliency.Performing New Orleans resists ...

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The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances of place.This first book-length study on the topic argues that doors engage in and help to shape broad phenomena of performance across key areas of critical enquiry in the field. Doors open up questions of theatrical space(s) and artistic encounters with place(s), design and archi...

Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.In the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance, it is valuable to understand what happens when artists make work in and about specific buildings. This is particularly important with domestic dwellings, which can be bound up with experiences, issues, practices and unders...

Universal Buck-Passing: Socialized medicine never works. It can seem to work for about fifty to seventy years as true costs are hidden and construed as increases in the "cost-of-living" or as nebulous, ill-defined tax increases, rather than increased, dedicated health care costs. The concept of "price at the point of service" is important, since it is easy to assume that it represents the total cost of care. Taxes to fund the system are actually hidden, compelled pre-payments. They allow p...