An ethnographic tour of my apartment…
As I am not planning on travelling anywhere significantly at the moment I thought I would give an ethnographic tour of my apartment.
Here is a picture of James Joyce and Ursula K Le Guin above my desk. The desk is cluttered, seemingly permanently cluttered. Will I ever get it clear? Who knows?
Next is a Hockney print. I like the two guys in bed together. Hockney’s style is very liberating I find.
After that I have a picture of me photographing the Danish flag. I bought the flag at Copenhagen airport entryway when I desperately needed another plastic carrier bag to decant some clutter into. I also bought a Viking cup which I still have. We went to Denmark from the 26th of December 2022 to like the 5th of January 2023. The whole trip cost like £3000 which was crazy. I booked cheap flights but there were more and more add ons and it came to £800 for two people’s flights. The hotel we stayed in was awesome and we had smoked salmon and cottage cheese and a whole host of stuff everyday.
Then there is my cheese-plant. I have no idea where cheese plants come from. I brought it inside due to the slightest risk of frost.
As to my plans to travel to Korea.
I could envisage travelling to South Korea but to me North Korea is too risky. Like a fascist-confucian state where one infraction can get you slung in a slave labour camp for life.
I could just imagine the sinking feeling once the plane doors shut and you are bound for Pyongyang. Maybe I am just not open minded enough?
I think sometimes it is interesting to put the political horror of the DPRK to one side and just side ways squint and view it as a society just running on a radically different path to the rest of the world….then no.
I dunno it is curious but then curiosity killed the cat.
Koryo Tours is a running a South Korean tour where you can see the North from viewing platforms. That might be enough.
The whole thing with patch work ethnography is great and its great working mums and dads and the disabled can access the profession but fuck! Do we not still want to go anywhere and have an adventure.
Its kind of depressing that in future anthropology could just be web-based research???
Finally, me and my gran (who just passed away) opposite the Kremlin in 1997.
Hmmm….
Ponderous…