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Part 1 Part 2 Rewriting the Self A contrast between Good Vibrations and No lies in the points of view from which they are told. From the outset it is clear that Good Vibrations is Terri Hooley’s story told in a n oral storytelling fashion – spinning a yarn, as we say in Ulster . The film is a series of memories depicted through a fanzine cut-and-paste collage of archival materials (amongst which I include the original recordings of the bands’ songs as well as television footage and radio archives) and original footage filmed with anamorphic lenses. The slightly skewed and blurred appearance with a lean to the right visually emphasizes Terri’s narrow vision in more ways than one; as well as missing his left eye, he fails to see how his actions affect those around him. Although No closely follows René, this fictionalization is neither biographical nor autobiographical as the character individualizes the larger team behind the more extensive No campaign. In a way, though, i

See Part 1 if you missed it. Mediatized Conflict and Post-Memory In Old Borders, New Technologies I examined the notion that the small, sparsely populated pastoral region of Northern Ireland with its few focalized urban centres provided an ideal laboratory for experiments in social control upon which the security systems now so ubiquitous throughout the UK and beyond were modelled. The idea that these larger constructs in conjunction with media reportage corral populations and determine group behaviours – and, importantly, perceptions of communities and behaviours – provides the broader backdrop for this discussion on specific encounters with the mediatization of conflicted pasts. Mediation and self-removal are common methods of coping (or not) with the unthinkable, and yet unthinkable events are so ubiquitous on daily and 24-hour news broadcasting and social media feeds that desensitization to the sounds and images of war seems increasingly common . As Susan Sontag discusse

Fittingly, the following posts are a revival of academic work I abandoned when I became ill in early 2017. I have re-structured, edited and split apart this draft of an article to form a series of blog posts to put the research out there and as part of the redrafting process in case the full essay is any good to submit somewhere or keep for an essay collection of my own. I hope someone out there gets something out of it. Reimagining Mediatized Conflict in Good Vibrations and No (Introduction) Although the scales vastly differ, Chile and Northern Ireland bear similarities regarding their borderlands and political pasts. The small UK region of Northern Ireland (population of 1.8 million in 14,000 square kilometres) shares a currently open border and an island with the Republic of Ireland. 1 The country of Chile (population of 19 million in 756,000 square kilometres) consists of a substantial strip along the west coast of Latin America’s Southern Cone. As well as geopolit

Did I tell yous about the goat I met last month? I said hello to him and he pushed his hefty body against my thigh and poked my bum - not hard, but with intention - with one of his horns. I assumed this meant he didn't want me in his space, so I moved away, only to be told by a human who knows him well that that's his way of letting you know that he wants you to rub his back and is showing you where. I never stop learning that assumptions are to be avoided and that the non-verbal communication of animals is utterly fascinating and much more direct than human language. If only we could understand each other in the way this goat can communicate that he wants contact. Interestingly, upon learning the goat's intentions I backtracked and tried to approach him, but he'd already moved on to the other humans. He did not persist in demanding attention or touch from me - behaviour many humans could learn from. The brief encounter has stayed with me, as has contact with quite a fe

Artists Zara Worth and Dawn Woolley talk about collaborating on work exploring intersections between belief systems and contemporary culture. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded with Zoom Edited by Paula Blair with Kdenlive Please support Audiovisual Cultures Podcast with the following: Patreon membership https://www.patreon.com/avcultures £5 donations https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peablair Pay as you feel donations https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/peablair  Recurring donation https://liberapay.com/peablair