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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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A head apart from the body

We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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  • Milking machine: interceptor float
  • Interceptor float used for milking cows
  • Burma: slaves (?) pulling a float towards the right. Gouache painting.
  • Napoleon leaps from his bed, terrified at a nightmarish vision of ghosts and devils, while Britannia and Liberty float on a cloud behind. Etching by the Caricaturist General, 1811.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A cast of a rabbit with a hole in the middle and one ear missing appearing to float within a neutral background; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Liliana Porter, [1995].
  • A safe sex fiesta in Pamplona featuring numerous cavorting couples, some holding condoms including a bishop who appears to float on a cloud from which fly bat-like creatures; issued by the Comision Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Navarra. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A group of people stand on a rug that appears to float across a world map as they point to the circular design surrounding them bearing the title in Spanish: 'Poster exhibition: 1985-1995' [in Madrid]; an advertisement by Salud y SIDA. Colour lithograph by Ana Capitaine, 1995.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
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