Part of the reason for the delay (besides the usual life-getting-in-the-way one) is that I couldn't quite decide what the theme should be. It needs a balance between being not-too-difficult to produce (real life having a tendency to gobble up much of my time) and yet still being interesting for me (what can I say, I'm difficult).
In the end, this month's theme decided itself for me. It wedged itself into my brain before I even knew I'd committed myself to it.
And the theme is: 'scapes!
As in: land~scapes, sea~scapes, mountain~scapes, urban~scapes... And so on.
(Probably be looking to escape the word by month' end too! Ha!)
The word actually comes from academia, and Professor Arjun Appadurai, who, back in the 1990s, came up with a very creative way of describing different aspects of globalisation: ethnoscapes, financescapes, ideascapes, mediascapes, and technoscapes ... They refer of course to the global circulation respectively of people, capital, ideas, media, technology ... (Look him up: Appadurai, 1992).
I'm taking a sensible academic idea and running it in silly directions, with apologies to academics and wordsmiths, alike.
Enjoy.
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