Author: Bradley L Garrett

Conversations with Richard Fidler

Conversations with Richard Fidler

Posted by | Feb 8, 2018 | , , , |

I was pleased to be invited back to the ABC studios a few days ago to chat with Richard Fidler as part of Conversations. The last time I was on the show was five years ago, just after the release of Explore Everything. My recent appearance was a great chance to talk about my new research with Preppers in-depth. I look forward to returning at the end of the project to see how my predictions pan out. I was also happy to recently be part of the 10th anniversary of the Talking Walking Podcast. I walked (and talked) with Andrew...

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USyd Fellowship Reading List

USyd Fellowship Reading List

Posted by | Jan 10, 2018 | , ,

As a follow-up to my last post, one of the things I really wanted to do with my USyd fellowship time was to read more. I asked my friends and colleagues to recommend to me a philosophy text (broadly defined) that was influential to them or that changed the way they thought. I collated those responses below. For the next 2 years, I’m going to work my way through these 85 books. If anyone is interested in following along, here is a download link to almost all of them. Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise...

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Life as a University of Sydney Fellow

Life as a University of Sydney Fellow

Posted by | Jan 10, 2018 | , , ,

There is no occupation so sweet as scholarship; scholarship is the means of making known to us, while still in this world, the infinity of matter, the immense grandeur of nature, the heavens, the lands and the seas. Scholarship has taught us piety, moderation, greatness of heart; it snatches our souls from darkness and shows them all things, the high and the low, the first, the last and everything in between; scholarship furnishes us with the means of living well and happily; it teaches us how to spend our lives without discontent and without vexation.        ...

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Bundian Way Project

Bundian Way Project

Posted by | Oct 25, 2017 | , , , |

I recently participated in a two-day exhibition at the National Art School in Sydney. The exhibition was built around a long weekend spent walking part of the Bundian Way Aboriginal Trail, a 365km track which follows an ancient Aboriginal route from Mt Kosciuszko to the coast in NSW. The project was coordinated by the arts collective Fugitive Moments (Barnaby Lewer and Tristan Derátz) and as they write on the project website, the trail ‘follows – and displaces – the traces of human movement, commerce and war for over 40,000 years. It is the first Aboriginal pathway to be listed on...

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Secret Tunnels

Secret Tunnels

Posted by | Nov 3, 2015 | , , , |

Earlier this year I was invited to write the foreword to Antony Clayton’s new book Secret Tunnels of England: Folklore and Fact. The invitation came from a talk we gave together in the Salon for the City series, which I’d highly recommend attending if you enjoy drinking cocktails in fragile tea cups and listening to historical lectures. Antony was kind enough to let me re-post my foreword text here, which I hope will inspire you to go read the whole book, which is not only engaging but gorgeous!   I studied for my PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London,...

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