keiran goddardNov 4, 20227 minWE WOULD PREFER NOT TO – ON NOT WORKINGBartleby lives! Herman Melville might be best known for his extremely big book about an extremely big whale, but it’s his 1853 short...
keiran goddardMar 20, 20205 min Searching for a virus on YouTube. Like so many other people, I’ve been quite unwell recently. Not in that slightly intangible living like this is making me unwell kind of...
keiran goddardSep 10, 20193 minYeah, yeah but what does it mean in practice?! ... on hope, preservation and the climate emergency A couple of months ago, I gave a talk in which I suggested there might be some utility in turning our focus away from ‘fixing’ the...
keiran goddardAug 1, 20194 min8 minutes on the climate crisis-July 2019Thank you for inviting me here this evening. I’d like to start with an observation. This is the third time in the last six months that I...
keiran goddardFeb 21, 20195 minAFFECTIVE CONSENSUS: UBI, GILETS JAUNES AND THE POWER OF THE SYMBOLIC Last week, I left London and went home to visit my family in the West Midlands. In conversation with my (disabled, angry, proud,...
keiran goddardFeb 21, 20194 minFOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ‘POVERTY NARRATIVE’Rethinking Poverty argues that the ‘narrative around poverty is broken’ … and, assuming we want our social narratives to render...
keiran goddardFeb 21, 20196 minTEN WAYS TO MAKE UBI A RADICAL DEMAND It has been said that universal basic income (UBI) is an idea in search of an ideology. In many ways, that’s a fair enough claim; when a...