Prof of Religious & Cultural Education @UofGlasgow. Arts, Humanities, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’. Tweets personally
Apr 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ok they divide opinion inside & outside the academy, though I have gained much from many of their key ideas without embracing all of them. You’ll get no fairer & penetrating a guide than @DrMatthewSweet@BBCFreeThinking@BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
It’s an *anti-Enlightenment* body, subverting the hierarchical vision of the organised body serving the mind, the power of reason. In this it recovers a much more ancient Biblical & shamanistic conception of the human as dis-organised, botched, desirous, self-subverting.
Apr 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Ahh. So much looking forward to this. 1 of our greatest poets & 1 of his most accomplished, vainglorious poems. @BBCFreeThinking@BBCRadio3 tonight. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
I once did a Roman Jakobson-style (Baudelaire ‘Les Chats’) close reading of these lines with 3rd Yr Hons Students, to illustrate both the practice & John Milton’s breathtaking & frightening linguistic virtuosity—
'these redundant locks,
Robustious to no purpose clustering down'
