Dear Marc -- This is a phenomenal post -- deeply touching and relevant to what is going on in many countries.
Thank you for taking the time and energy and risk to write it. Martha The Lost Shoe http://www.chapbookpublisher.com/shop.html The Lost Shoe video http://www.sporkworld.org/Deed/lostshoe.mov this is visual poetry by Millie Niss (27 March 2010 release) this is visual poetry by Martha Deed (24 August 2010 release) http://thisisvisualpoetry.com Heat and 500 Favourite Words (Released July 2010) http://chapbookpublisher.com/tiny-shop.html On 2/6/2011 6:53 PM, marc garrett wrote: > How a Library Saved My Life. > > By Marc Garrett, on Furtherfield's Community Blog. > http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/marc-garrett/how-library-saved-my-life > > Recently I read Claire Bishop's excellent article 'Con-Demmed to the > Bleakest of Futures: Report from the UK' > (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/209). Where she argues "that in the > wake of the general election in May 2010, which resulted in a > Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition-the UK’s first coalition > government since 1945—the ensuing cuts to culture cannot be seen as > separate from an assault on welfare, education, and social equality. The > rhetoric of an "age of austerity" is being used as a cloak for the > privatization of all public services and a reinstatement of class > privilege: a sad retreat from the most civilized Keynesian initiatives > of the post-war period, in which education, healthcare, and culture were > understood to be a democratic right freely available to all." > > After reading Claire's article I thought that I'd write a little bit of > personal history regarding my own experiences with early education and > how a library saved my life... > > Wishing all well. > > marc > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
