Sublime

the Slavic tradition, she’d be the dangerous old woman of the woods, Baba Yaga — and so on.

virtual Child operating as a cultural reservoir for hopefulness and longing.

For the indigenous élite in eastern Britain, part of the attraction of adopting the new language and half-familiar customs and possessions of Continental traders, brokers and bucellari, may have lain in embracing a culture that was both exotic and decidedly not Roman. The apparently wholesale rejection of Christian practice in the south and east by

seem to offer widespread constructive social engagement, with participants communicating, collaborating, co-creating and mutually supporting one another.

to adapt our approaches in a changing work context without compromising our core values.

I explore what models of social relation and community these practices can produce, while I remain wary of models that either fetishize a myth of a unified singularity and thereby obliterate difference, or propose an unresolved multitude. I seek models of community that recognize people’s social interdependence without assimilating their distinctiv

without regard to how understandable any part of them would be. It

Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property right