Roland Barthes's Secret Garden

The secret garden

a genuine movement of increased awareness and increased concern for animals that is occurring in many countries,” he said. “There are even signs of great ape movements in countries that have not traditionally shown concern for animals.” Singer, who wrote the 1975 book Animal Liberation, a rallying cry for rights and protection for animals, said that the animal rights movement has shifted away f...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is an interactive narrative potential space, which aims to be a hidden rest area in urban space and a site to interrogate and reflect on the human experience. A digital image of the tree with its ‘will’ to grow stands in the space. A spectator’s secret will feed the tree. JeeHee’s The Secret Garden installation suggests a cross-art form. Sound, light and visualisation will des...

The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK

There is an enduring, indeed increasing awareness of the role of spatial location in defining and reinforcing inequality in this country and beyond. In the UK, much of the debate around these issues has focussed on the established trope of a long-standing 'north-south divide', a divide which appears to have deepened in recent decades with the inexorable de-industrialisation of northern Britain ...

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Roland Bluhm

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential benefit of corpus analysis, a (partly) empirical method from linguistics, for philosophy� ‘Corpus analysis’ is not only the name of the method, but also a rough description of it, because the method consists in analysing data taken from linguistic text corpora� In linguistics, using such text corpora is an established practice� A fair number of ...