Kester Brewin

New Year’s Eve. Christmas Eve. Funny how the night before is becoming the main event. More and more so in the case of Christmas: the build-up is the event. The actual day is for collapsing, resting… The Victorians celebrated the birth of the 20th Century on 1st January 1901; always sticklers for decorum. We all [...]

"The dominance of the art market – not to mention the art object – is being challenged by hackers, code warriors, and artistically motivated nerds who prefer networks, websites, and $19.95 posters to glitzy shows and art-star fame." Thus begins the article ‘My Art World is Bigger Than Your Art World’ in December’s issue of [...]

Have a great few days. Here’s to the Trojan Baby. Caesarean Sections The bitter old man stands at the gates of the earth Waiting Watching
Guarding the only entrance and exit to this citadel planet.
The babies file in and the dead file out
And he watches them
Grimly keeping count. 
He watches He waits
He shivers to shake
The tired [...]

OK, so someone tell me why my blog doesn’t come up in the Technorati Blog-Finder. Yup, I’ve claimed it, tagged it, mailed them about it… And it does come up in their other searches. But no joy. Clearly a conspiracy…

It’s always refreshing to have a drink with Nic. We got onto talking around post + modernity, pre + post incarnation, plausibility structures and the concept of phase changes, which Pete Ward never quite expanded on in his book Liquid Church… Usual pub fayre. The root question: how do things change? What are the actual [...]

Andrew has blogged a lot about the impact of Web 2.0 style thinking on the Church, and I would totally agree that we can learn a lot from the ‘governing dynamics’ that are making these new ‘applications’ take off. Flicking around some sites on this, I came across this diagram, which holds some amazing parallels [...]

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“You have riches and freedom here, but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?” Lech Walesa. On his first visit outside the Soviet bloc.

“Do you know the difference between commitment and involvement? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.” Martina Navratilova, interviewed in 1982.

At Will’z invitation I recently wrote this post for the Emergent-US blog, reflecting on Forster’s epigraph ‘only connect’, and his diatribe against the city of ‘anger and telegrams’. Abstract: blogging isn’t enough to keep anyone connected to ‘the conversation.’ We need physical networks as well as virtual ones.