Poetics Quoting Humanisms I am very interested in the problem of generations. A dear old friend recently sent me this fragment of a poem by Andreas Gryphius, a survivor of the 30 years war in what became known as Prussia. (11 October 1616 – 16 July 1664). Each healing breath in lost thin air must…
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one of a series from Everard Longland
Intimate Citizenship
INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP Today I have started a page which will hopefully slowly piece together some of my writings and thoughts on this idea ( Go to: Selected Writings/ Intimate Citizenship). I first recall thinking of the idea walking along a beach in Santa Barbara in the early 1990’s as I was completing Modern Homosexualities…
Ken’s Sickness and Transplant Story
I have today placed a 50 page account of my illness and transplant. It is an auto/ ethnography and has appeared on a separate page on my web site marked Selected Writings . More on this will gradually be placed on this page.
Inspirations : A Poetic for Paul
INSPIRATIONS Many people have inspired me over my life. They have fired my imagination, given me a passion, shaped me a little. So this is the first of a series of little reflections on people I like, love or admire. Today it is the turn of PAUL ROCK. He was my PhD supervisor at the…
POETICS: Being Kind
Here is a little poem I wrote a while back. It’s not very good – but I will keep on trying! BEING KIND I have a dream. An empathetic world. A fair and just society. A humane society. For the generations to come. Making a kinder world. Let us join hands and be practical: Being…
Article: My Multiple Sick Bodies
Below is my most recent article published in April 2012. It is my first published piece based on my illness. MY MULTIPLE SICK BODIES: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND EMBODIMENT Ken Plummer Published in Bryan S Turner ed. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies 2012: Routledge p75-93 What happens when my body breaks down…
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Quoting Humanisms
‘One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life’
E M Forster What I Believe
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life
E.M. Forster Two Cheers for democracy: What I Believe
Quoting Humanisms
Shakespeare- that great old humanist!
Love all. Trust a few.
Do wrong to none.Shakespeare All’s well that ends well