Community is a tricky idea these days. Surveys tell us we no longer know our neighbours and TV tells us that, when we do, they are very often ‘from Hell’. Online communities are elusive and shifting. The Guardian reported recently that ‘Facebook is now dead and buried to teenagers’. But politicians like the word ‘community’. …
Author: Jim Harris
Jim Harris is the Teaching Curator, responsible for academic engagement and programming at the Ashmolean Museum in the University of Oxford. He is an art historian and former actor and musician, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 2's 'Pause for Thought' strand.
Serve, 30.1.14
I’ve been doing a lot of tidying up lately. If you were to ask the rest of my family they would say that this is because I am a strangely obsessive and troubled little man; if you ask me, it’s just that I think it’s important to live in an ordered environment. An obsessively tidy, …