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CHBS #8: The Drowned Book
In 1913, Ludwig Wittgenstein constructed his wooden hut on a steep rock face over Eidsvatnet Lake in the Luster municipality of Vestland, Norway. It was whilst living in this perched precariously home that the philosopher first began to conceive of the work that later became the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). In the summer of 2024, the
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CHBS #5: Cleaning Up The Slime
During the pandemic, I was one of a group of women from the Department of Design at Goldsmiths who formed the Domestic Monsters, a collective to explore questions and discourses of the domestic through practice. In those strange times, I remember our online meetings and then in-person and socially distanced meetings being incredibly hopeful, almost
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CHBS #2: The 1957 Festival of Women
In the summer of 2023, on a bright and brilliant day, I decided to down tools, pull myself away from work emails and take a road trip. My car was in for service and a family member had lent me their sportscar. I decided to take her for a spin, remembering an antiques market at
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CHBS #1: This Blog
Many moons ago, an old friend, who had heard me say “I’ve got an idea” far too often in far too short a time, suggested — somewhat cynically — that I should buy the domain name Crazy Hare-Brained Schemes