Time and Reality Die in Spectacle: Doctor Who as the Perfect Crime
The 2005 reboot of the television serial Doctor Who follows a time-traveller named The Doctor. We soon learn that his race and planet have long ago been destroyed. The same fate is in store for Earth, its immolation a spectacle for galactic tourists. Subsequent episodes are played out in the shadow of this predestined apocalypse. By returning to the present we escape our human end, but in so doing infect reality with a principle that erases its meaning. The perfect crime is constituted in the very hypothesis of time travel that gives this programme life.
September 2006
Brighton Poetry & Book Festival
I was pleased to be invited for a reading at the Brighton Poetry & Book Festival 2005, as part of a special focus on Irish literature. Several of us made the trip across the water… to be greeted by this cake!
December 2005
An Introduction to Sound Art
This seminar at the University of Brighton presented sounds most people had never heard, in order to inspire wonder in sonic possibilities. To this end I played everything from dolphins in the Red Sea to outer atmospheric magnetics.
December 2005