Distraction Therapy

This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that [...] Source

This week’s recording was shaped by the steady rain outside and the slow process of returning to everyday routines after two weeks in Japan. The [...] Source

As I recorded today’s Distraction Therapy podcast, I found myself once again at Leicester Cathedral, shaded from the intense summer heat, contemplating the disorientation and [...] Source

It’s a warm, blustery Monday afternoon in Leicester, and I’m sitting in the cathedral gardens with a notebook and a recorder. After some time away [...] Source

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Ryan and I got together at the recently extended Phoenix Cinema and Digital Arts Centre in Leicester, for a chat about what makes for a [...] Source

In our final podcast of 2022, Ryan and I met for a coffee and chatted about how we are coping during the festive season, what [...] Source

It was really nice to have a coffee this morning with Jonathan Taylor and Paul Whitehead, who are based at the University of Leicester’s Centre [...] Source

Today I chatted with Dafydd Roberts, about Listen to the Voice of Fire, Dafydd’s music project that encompasses sound art and experimental music performances. Since [...] Source

For the first time in ages, Ryan and I met up to chat and discuss what we’ve been up to for the Distraction Therapy podcast. [...] Source

Ryan and I met up on Saturday morning for our regular coffee and chat. Ryan came hot-footed from a bikram yoga session, and was super [...] Source

Ryan and I caught up for a coffee again this morning, to find out what films and books we’ve been reading. We chatted about how [...] Source

What was the heatwave like for you? That was our starting topic in this latest episode of Distraction Therapy. Ryan and I chatted about what [...] Source

The degree to which we need suitable distractions in our lives, is in direct proportion to the level of anxiety that we experience as a [...] Source

Ryan Clayton and I met for a coffee, neither of us knowing what we wanted to discuss. It was an experiment in seeing what might [...] Source

Hi, in this episode of Distraction Therapy I’ve put some music together, and added some thoughts on what a listening-focussed approach to social deliberation might [...] Source

How can we use popular media to bridge the gaps in our knowledge of the world? Over a coffee, Ryan Clayton and Rob Watson discuss [...] Source

Is the new Marvel movie, Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, a metamodern film? What would a metamodern radio station sound like, and what [...] Source

Now that spring is here, it was lovely to be able to sit in Castle Gardens and record some observations and thoughts, and to play [...] Source

It was a pleasure, as always, to chat with Ryan Clayton about popular culture, metamodernism and archetypal symbols that have currency in our times. This [...] Source

Once again, coffee propelled our conversation this morning, as Ryan and I turned our thoughts to the process of reflection and getting to grips with [...] Source

There are worse ways to spend Saturday morning than drinking coffee and chatting with Ryan Clayton about the meaning crisis and metamodernism for a podcast. [...] Source

What was intended to be a general conversation about metamodernist sense-making, turned into discussion of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and how it has [...] Source

If postmodernity is about playful signifiers and pastiche, then how is metamoderninity different? Ryan Clayton and I met up for a coffee, and we chatted [...] Source