Habitus, Belonging And The Mythic Grammar Of Social Change
When political controversy is viewed only through headlines, it tends to appear as a sequence of disputes about policy, identity, speech, migration, technology, borders, rights, […]
What Are We Afraid Of? Jung, Culture, and the Symbolic Life of Fear
Much of contemporary Western culture seems saturated with fear, yet public discussion rarely asks the most direct question: what are we actually afraid of? We […]
Distraction Therapy – Mix-Tape Feelings
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Distraction-Therapy-Show-002-2026-06-10-Mixdown.mp3What happens when a mix begins with the feeling of being named, tagged, measured and watched? Part Two of Distraction Therapy moves through a more […]
Distraction Therapy – Mixed Feelings
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-06-10-Mixdown.mp3What kind of feeling does a mix create before we can explain it? This first hour of Distraction Therapy begins with Brian Eno’s “An Ending […]
From Japan With Love – NIGO, Field Notes, and the Sound of Collected Things
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-Show-002-2026-06-03-Mixdown.mp3Distraction Therapy with Rob Watson now goes out on Soar Sound, community radio from Leicester and across the East Midlands, on Wednesdays from nine to […]
Distraction Therapy – Listening to the Room
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-06-03-Mixdown.mp3Distraction Therapy is broadcast on Soar Sound on Wednesdays, 9pm to 11pm. This episode of Distraction Therapy includes a short edited feature recorded at a […]
Community Is Not An Alibi
I have a growing discomfort in the way the word “community” is used in British public life. It is a word that appears to offer […]
The Severed Head: Symbolism, Identity, and the Search for Wholeness
There are moments in public life when political disputes seem to draw upon a deeper reservoir of images and symbols than the immediate arguments might […]
Distraction Therapy – Music For Journeys Not Yet Taken
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-Mix-002-2026-05-29-Mixdown.mp3What is a mixtape for? Not only to collect songs. Not only to show taste. Not only to keep a record of what was listened to […]
Distraction Therapy – Between Memory, Signal And Dream
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Distraction-Therapy-Mix-001-2026-05-29-Mixdown.mp3What is a mixtape for? Is it a map, a diary, a spell, a sequence of rooms, or a way of quietly rearranging the furniture inside […]