The Matterhorn Catalogue 2022

Our first year in review - in case you missed it!

Hello Readers,

Thank you for supporting my new project since launching in August this year. Or, thanks for checking it out now!

Below is a list of the weekly newsletter topics in 2022 that you may wish to go back to. I know that many of them were quite lengthy :) and we don’t always have the time to read. IB teachers, remember that your concepts are linked at the top of the Tuesday topics. Please share with any colleagues, friends, or students who might enjoy them. They are always available through the Substack interface.

What we have built

We’ve begun a kind of digital kinning, through readership and collaborations, that I hope will grow in 2023. Stay tuned for some additions and experiments in this direction. I’m truly grateful for all the people who have given me feedback or engaged in dialogue with me about our projects.

Support

Simply reading, subscribing, and sharing help this project to grow. Please also consider supporting my writing further for the cost of a coffee a month. In addition to allowing me to continue building on this work, you will receive extra ‘Saturday Brunch’ posts and be able to engage in all discussions.

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Thank you for reading and subscribing! I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and best wishes to the start of 2023!

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Tuesday Topic posts from 2022

(listed by concepts on my website)

1. The Sea: How artists investigate the beauty and ferocity of the sea

2. Whales: Wisdom, fear, and beauty within the sea

3. Soundtracks: Musical memories and collective experiences

4. Soundtracks II: The power of pairing music with other art forms

5. The Art of Running: More than just one-foot-in-front-of-the-other?

6. Autumn: How the 'black arts' of fall can move us forward

7. Massachusetts: Home's influence on our interactions with artistry

8. Massachusetts II: Cultural spaces of artistic community

9. The Art of Running II: Why do people run and how does it reflect culture(s)?

10. The City as Text: How reading urban spaces can shape identities

11. The Phone Call: The changing nature of an artistic chronotopic trope

12. The Phone Call II: How have changes in phone communication changed the way we experience reality?

13. Walls: How do artists use these boundaries to understand our divisions and connections?

14. Borders: How does artistry of and at the border change its impact on individuals?

15. Tokyo: Finding ourselves in the cinematic city

16. Portraits: Framing a figure as an idea and an aesthetic

17. Self Portraits: How reflecting oneself is much more than narcissism (yes, even selfies)

18. Snow: Its colors, sounds & memories; its beauty, joys & danger

Saturday Brunch posts

1. What I’m Reading and Viewing in August

2. Read Less but Read Better

3. Where I Get my Goods (texts, that is)

4. Living in Basel

5. We Need Art Now!

6. Recent Digital Reads

7. On the Passage of Time (with Vlad Gogish)

8. How I Write Novels

9. My Writing Routine

10. “Art is the Purist Form of Communication” (with Mike Ritter)

11. Being ok with not knowing

12. Why Cultural Studies through the Arts? (with the University of Hong Kong)

13. Women and the City (with Kate Jones)

14. The Culture of Everyday Life

15. Fukagawa Blues (with Gianni Simone)

16. London Diaries: Not Your Usual Bookshop (with Tom Fish)

17. Imagining a Borderless Future (with Jorge Palinhos)

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