Edmund Griffiths — talks

Edmund Griffiths — talks

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Edmund Griffiths — talks episodes

  • Argument for a bourgeois recreation (10)

    1 December 2022

    ACROSS

    1. Country house key is with current housing association (5)

    4. Cliffites accept alternative leader, for a change (4)

    6. Marxist adds weight to the Communist International (7)

    7. Rage is misspelt: range (5)

    10. Turn Liberal Democrat yellow (4)

    13. Sir Keir initially has the unions surrounded and trapped (5)

    14. Island veiled in bijou topiary (6)

    15. Revolutionary engineers a ringer, we hear (5)

    DOWN

    1. Follow a graduate’s teaching (5)

    2. The C language obscures a resounding crash (5)

    3. Gods rise up with head of Achilles (5)

    4. Shift in support for one flying south? (5)

    5. Conceited anarchist misses term of endearment (5)

    8. Modern unit of mass is a unit of force (6)

    9. ’E ran—ran away! (6)

    11. A philosopher and democrat won’t give... (6)

    12. ... the inside of a rat’s arse for monarchs (5)

    25 min
  • Aleksandr Bogdanov (1873–1928) and the general science of organization

    29 November 2018

    Bogdanov’s coinage, tectology, is sometimes written in English as tektology with a K. I don’t know of any justification for this; it comes from the same Greek root that gives us architect and tectonic.

    Image: a drop of water on a nasturtium leaf https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dew_on_nasturtium_leaf.JPG

    30 min
  • No saviour from on high: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

    18 June 2020

    ‘1480 MHz’ is a slip of the tongue: what I meant to say was 1420.

    The original talk came with a handout containing some illustrations: I can’t attach those here and I think it still makes sense without them. The globe of Mars mentioned in the talk was made by Emmy Ingeborg Brun; some photos of it can be seen here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-567262

    Image: radio signal detected in 1977 by the Big Ear telescope at Ohio State University https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wow_signal.jpg

    38 min
  • The entrails of the first priest: an introduction to The Golden Bough

    29 February 2024

    This talk was originally scheduled for 21 December 2023, under the title ‘Gifts for the tree: an introduction to The Golden Bough’. But factors beyond my control forced me to postpone it, and then it wasn’t a Christmas special any longer.

    Image: J. M. W. Turner, The Golden Bough (1834; detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Barcelona)_The_Golden_Bough_-_Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_-_Tate_Britain.jpg

    56 min
  • ‘The greatest poet that has ever existed’: Ossian

    19 October 2023

    The text of the handout can be found here: https://pastebin.com/T2FFsZhW

    Image: Károly Kisfaludy, The Sorrows of Ossian (after 1822; detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Budapest,_Hungarian_National_Gallery,_Károly_Kisfaludy,_the_Sorrows_of_Ossian.jpg

    33 min
  • Haunting Europe: the vision of Dr Fu-Manchu

    19 December 2024

    Image: cover art by Ron Lesser for the 1962 US edition of The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932; detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mask_of_Fu_Manchu_by_Sax_Rohmer_-_Illustration_by_Ron_Lesser_-_Pyramid_Books_F-740_1962.jpg

    38 min

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Talks for the Oxford Communist Corresponding Society—all subjects (politics, literature, belief systems, philosophy, folklore, history, history of science, Marxist theory, etc., etc.). Most were…