USES OF HISTORY 2010

Well, here we are again. I've been invited to continue the 'Uses Of History' OPTION at Chelsea College.

This year I feel inclined to allow the agenda to unravel more spontaneously and with more student input.

So today, I will take a long the handouts I made last year and some of the Powerpoints too but simply let the conversation roll out and see where it takes us for the next session.

I'm also interested in meeting up off-site for one session perhaps, at a preserved house or something. Let's see what the Chelsea students think.

I guess what's on my mind is still 'Newspeak' at Saatchis; W.G. Sebald; an extract about the museum from 'The Catcher In The Rye, and that odd old film I saw last night 'Journey To Italy' by Roberto Rosselini (1953).