Aretha Aoki and Benjamin Kimitch (Thursday through Feb. 16) In a shared program Aretha Aoki presents "Las Gravitas," a solo "about making a solo," according to the Danspace Web site, which tells us that it vacillates "between insularity and expansiveness".
Aretha Aoki and Benjamin Kimitch (Friday and Saturday) In a shared program Aretha Aoki presents "Las Gravitas," a solo "about making a solo," according to the Danspace Web site, which tells us that it vacillates "between insularity and expansiveness".
The choice is not between Europe and insularity: the Eurosceptics are not Little Englanders, but people very keen for us to think on a global — not just a continental — scaleAnd here is Ruth Lea, a City economist and veteran anti-EU campaigner, making a similar point more stridently for ConservativeHome:the Commonwealth has been in the news this week.
Hardborough exemplifies insularity: "The town itself was an island between sea and river, muttering and drawing into itself as soon as it felt the cold.
"None of us has seen this level of uncertainty, this level of a lurch to xenophobia, this very worrying insularity and racism, or such a massive divide between parts of the UK".
The jokes aren't all what you'd call subtle, but they're substantive, calling out the ruinous insularity of online celebrity, and the power imbalance between YouTubers and their adoring fans.
I sat down with him to discuss insularity, British – or, rather, English – identity, and the gulf between the reality and fiction of a romanticised past.
First, non-insular feral and early Neolithic insular populations are required to properly contrast the effects of insularity and feralisation.
Yet each nation's burgeoning rock scene might have continued in insularity were it not for recent advances in technology and more contacts between the local affiliates of multinational record companies.
Last year Michael Lind published a short essay deploring the cultural gap between novelists and politicians, attributing it partly to geography, partly to insularity.
