Music and the body in multimodal semiotics posted 27 Jan 2014 08:37 by Simon McKerrell I'm presenting some new ideas about this topic at Newcastle University on the 26th February if anyone is around and interested! http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/programmes all the best, Simon. Abstract: Music is many things, but it is most definitely not a language. It is however, … Continue reading Music and the body in multimodal semiotics

Macs, repairs and fieldwork ethics posted 24 Jan 2014 15:35 by Simon McKerrell   [ updated 24 Jan 2014 15:36 ] An interesting point of ethical ethnographic procedure for me recently. I had to put my macbook in to the apple shop for a minor repair. Clearly (and having looked online at a few posts about privacy and repairs) there was … Continue reading Macs, repair and fieldwork ethics

Hearing our bodies posted 18 Jan 2014 06:41 by Simon McKerrell I've just finished reading Mark Johnson's 'phenomenal' (no pun intended) book The Meaning of the Body (University of Chicago Press, 2007). I think it is a book that will stay with me for some time, and rarely have I found that I agree with so much of the … Continue reading Hearing our Bodies