Monthly Archives: May 2008

reviews and theatre as live event

Andrew Haydon at the Guardian theatre blog raises some interesting questions about the purpose of theatre reviews – drawing a tentative distinction between reviews which judge whether a performance is a success or failure, and reviews which offer a kind of non-partisan analysis. You could argue that Haydon is talking about almost entirely different modes …

May 26, 2008 – 12:00 pm | By Steve G | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

death of the company

Ploughing through a final draft of a journal paper, I hit this quote from Barry Wellman in Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs: Although people often view the world in terms of groups, they function in networks. In networked societies, boundaries are permeable, interactions are diverse others, connections switch between multiple networks, and hierarchies can be flatter …

May 13, 2008 – 10:46 am | By Steve G | Posted in Misc. | Comments (0)