Xsara 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸

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I’m pleased to share that I’ll be a visiting student @CamDigHum @Cambridge_Uni in Michaelmas 2026, developing 'The Numinous Ear'- my research on autistic listening, aural diversity, and relational numinous consciousness #AuralDiversity #Numinous #Autism xsara.co.uk/post/research-…

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition! The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global Deadline 31 July 2026 Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

Today marks what would have been historian, scholar and activist, Walter Rodney's 84th birthday. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a book we should all read.

Very grateful to present at this conference again for 2026! 🙏🏼 London Arts-Based Research Centre, Sacred Arts 16-17 May. University of Oxford @UniofOxford @IndelibleLit #Autism #autisticresearch #numinous #auraldiversity #artsbasedresearch #consciousness xsara.co.uk/post/the-numin…

#creativeresearchmethods #ArtsBasedResearch #artsresearch #practiceasresearch #practiceresearch #phenomenology #autismresearch #autisticresearch #hospitals #noisepollution

Forthcoming Publication My paper, ‘HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception – A Transdisciplinary Arts-Practice Inquiry’ will be published in the Journal of Creative Research Methods 2:1 pub @BrisUniPress @policypress #abr

Very grateful to the #AuralDiversity Network, founded by Andrew Hugill, for mentioning my very first paper in Issue #4 of their newsletter. drive.google.com/file/d/1wbDfND…

Grateful to have my first published poem 'To be Unmade' in Issue #9 of the literary and arts journal, @IndelibleLit (theme: Awakening) by the London Arts-Based Research Centre @pamelachrab #poetry #ArtsBasedResearch #PaR #poetry

@jc_muyonjo These are both fantastic.

Then this hypnotic audio-reactive piece, "Metamorphosis" was created while in Foggia, Italy for a workshop and presented at the symposium. youtu.be/PsbZaH5mgug?si…

Finally got around to uploading these works. Check out this video and sound composition piece, Aalto University commissioned us to make last year. (watch in 1080). youtu.be/B4s-MH2g9O8?si…

My first PhD talk is @UniofOxford 10-11 May 2025, at LABRC's @IndelibleLit 'Sacred Arts' Conference. 'The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening & Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the Divine & Sublime: Sonic Consciousness through Phenomenology, Panpsychism & Process Philosophy'.

📣 The Military Surplus: Toxicity, Industry and War network are back with more online seminars this term, starting on 23 Jan. Activists, artists, community stakeholders, and scholars from different disciplinary paths are invited to join the conversations crassh.cam.ac.uk/military-surpl…

"A Phenomenology of Mystical Embodiment: Merleau-Ponty and Hildegard on the Transformation of Sense Perception" - A three-part Mini-Course facilitated by Jennifer Wang of Villanova University! The course will be free and open to the public. to: animal@lcpfoundation.org.

🎶 New in paperback! Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics is the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics. Learn more: bit.ly/49HDqVx Read the introduction: bit.ly/4ghjoDI

“In his paper on #synchronicity Jung stresses the point that since the physical and and the psychic realms coincide within the synchronistic event, there must be somewhere or somehow a unitarian reality – one reality of the physical and psychic realms to which he gave the Latin expression unus mundus, the one world, a concept which already existed in the minds of some mediaeval philosophers. This world, #Jung says, we cannot visualize, and it completely transcends our conscious grasp. We can only conclude, or assume, that there is somewhere such a reality, a psycho-physical reality we could call it, which sporadically manifests in the synchronistic event. Later, in Mysterium Coniunctionis, he says that the mandala is the inner psychic equivalent of the unus mundus.” ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980) p. 98 Quoted by Brian Mayo and Patricia Brannigan in their new book, Skin Deep: Manifestations of the Unconscious in Everyday Life (Toronto: Inner City Books, 2024) p. 22 Coming Jan. 15, 2025 to Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

My friend @L_E_Bendon a brilliant saxophonist and bassoonist, has written his debut novel, 'The Weapon and the Fruit: Four and Twenty Blackboards', available for pre-order on Amazon. amazon.co.uk/dp/1068573805?…

Jo Jones ,1957 #Jazz

@CeltIslam I will, it looks so cool!!! Everything is computer-generated these days, I like the authentic artistry of it.

@lemnsissay @MulberryEngland I don't know why but this reminds me of the scene below from The Day of The Jackal!

On a personal note if you can find this retractable telescopic luggage handle mechanism then you will have made my Christmas. Must match measurements in the adjacent drawing. It is from a two wheeled large mulberry Scotchgrain suitcase. @MulberryEngland say they can't find one.

The great Scottish cartoonist/illustrator Tom Gauld demonstrates ~ with an awful sense of inevitability ~ what happens when you realise that your house has become overloaded with books tomgauld.com