Twenty-nine year old quidnunc and neophile. I graduated with a
Master's degree with distinction in critical theory and am
currently researching for a PhD in
Art History.
I'm a libertine, and a lush. I'm a
pro-sex,
pro-feminist,
liberal (not libertarian),
communitarian. I'm a pragmatic,
non-dogmatic
vegan;
a
humanist; an
existentialist (more de Beauvoir
than Sartre); an
atheist; a
sceptic; a wide-eyed, excited and
excitable human being.
Absorbing information, which is useful for
pub-quizzes. I'm also make a mean
cup of
tea.
Heavy
tattoo
coverage and an open smile.
Favourite Books: The Second Sex -
de Beauvoir; Capitalism and
Schizophrenia -
Deleuze and Guattari;
Mediations -
Marcus Aurelius;
On Friendship -
Montaigne
I own hundreds and hundreds of
books, principally on the broad topic of
the body - everything from
anthropology to
aesthetics,
queer theory to
neuroscience,
pornography to
phenomenology. Dead bodies, live
bodies, bodies for
sale. Bodies as
art.
Bodies as currency. Bodies from antiquity to the unimaginable far
future. I love somatic philosophers -
Montaigne,
Nietzsche,
Foucault,
Lipps,
Dewey,
de Beauvoir,
Merelau-Ponty,
Anzieu; somatic poets -
Whitman,
e.e cummings; somatic
artists -
Nauman,
Brus,
Sierra.
Mendietta,
Mappelthorpe,
Barney.
If I had more room in my flat, I'd have so many more.
I DJ music from the 1880s - early 1960s: country,
bluegrass, blues, gospel,
rockabilly,
rock and roll, jazz,
swing, jive, doo-wop and garage, with a
smattering of dark and dirty European exploitation movie
soundtracks. I'm also into
punk,
hardcore and anything performed with
passion, honesty and truth.
As for food:
Marmite, and anything
spicy; the hotter the better.
Curries or
Mexican food
especially. Oh, and I'm
vegan, so lots of salads.
- A daily dose of
current affairs - newspaper, the
Today programme, rolling news, I'm not fussy.
- Friends to lend me their ears
- My thesaurus
- My tongue. Well, two tongues, technically.
- The right side of my brain
Aesthetic
philosophy, recently. That and
ethics,
politics, pedagogical
practice and what I'm going to have for tea. Put the kettle on!
drinking
real ale
and arguing about something robustly trivial. Lions or bears?
Summer or winter? Cake or death?
is that I once tied up a masochist and refused to hurt her.
You're covered in tattoos, you bruise easily, have read "Being and
Nothingness" by J-P Sartre and want to share your safe-word with
me.