A few weeks ago, browsing the bookshop at the Barbican in London I chanced on Familiar Stranger - A Life Between Two Islands, the posthumous memoir by Stuart Hall edited by his friend and colleague Bill Schwarz.
Thanks for this Stuart Hall Chartbook. Reading it was like meeting up with someone vaguely familiar and having a conversation about profound ways of living + making sense of life, never to be entirely forgotten
Wonderful. While reading this, the ideas of emotion, perception, contingency, understanding, history and change reminded me of the confounding complexity and instability that ultimately thwarts our ability to navigate politics, morality, and human relations. Even if it were possible to define all the relevant variables and assign, for example, multi-factor correlations and probabilities, we still could not explain, much less predict, reality and fate.
Thanks for this Stuart Hall Chartbook. Reading it was like meeting up with someone vaguely familiar and having a conversation about profound ways of living + making sense of life, never to be entirely forgotten
A warm-hearted thank you for this one. this essay of yours evokes an intimacy I never felt when reading him (or of him).
Wonderful. While reading this, the ideas of emotion, perception, contingency, understanding, history and change reminded me of the confounding complexity and instability that ultimately thwarts our ability to navigate politics, morality, and human relations. Even if it were possible to define all the relevant variables and assign, for example, multi-factor correlations and probabilities, we still could not explain, much less predict, reality and fate.