This article begins with a personal account of Anna Mendelssohn and her work, recalled against the backdrop of student demonstrations in Cambridge and elsewhere across the UK in Using an idea drawn from the art historian Lisa Tickner via the psychoanalyst D.
What kind of approach does it disqualify? These are the questions my essay explores. Roberts, L. Always at the same desk, at the top of the North Wing corridor, between the courtyard, the Map Room, and the tearoom. Anna sat opposite a painting of a destroyer at sea, which when I picture now I think of as blue-green and grey, with wisps of white clouds above and surf below surrounding the ship.
Sam Ladkin gave me her address, and I wrote to her to ask for poems for a magazine I had started, because in Cambridge at that time it seemed like starting a magazine was how you got to be a poet. Anna died in November , and I came back to Cambridge in October We were almost immediately thrown into student revolt.
These policies were an aggressive and successful attempt to enshrine the logic of market competition in the education system. They were also the warning shots for the implementation of austerity measures, which have since enacted systematic and punitive cuts to the state provision of welfare and public services.
Subsequent protests in London were met with ferocious police violence. There were waves of student occupations around the country. Thinking back to this period I often forget that it happened before the Arab Spring and before Occupy.
