Rockbound Once Again

It's been ages since my last posting - I had a feeling I'd be bad at this blogging business. I do have a good excuse though: I have been teaching an intensive course for which I just finished the heavy marking load yesterday.

My course is called In a Material World and in it we examine the insidious world of consumerism and advertising. Our main reads (apart from many shorter texts) are Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and M.T. Anderson's Feed. They go so well together as dystopias about...