🤟 Welcome!
I'm Joel: A writer & researcher based in Glasgow.
This is my personal website.
It's a place for me to collect and share things I'm doing
And to stay in touch with people as I try to extract myself from various corporate web platforms.
😱 Me
Photo by Bryony McIntyre
🎵 Music Player
Now Playing:
U by underscores, If Ye've Never Been tae Kirrie by Joe Aitken, Ultra Villain by Maara, ALL MY ANGELS by Speed
🩰 Upcoming
- 27.05.26: Good Press, Glasgow, 6.30pm - 'Studying (in) friendship: Giovanni Marmont in conversation with Laura C. Forster and Joel White'
- 29.05.26: Adam House cinema, Edinburgh, 3pm Screening of 'You Don't Know What You Don't Know, Do You?' as part of ASA 'People Fest'
- 31.05.26: HOW SERENE singing circle - The Ivory, G41 3AY - 7pm
- 25.06.26: Glasgow, Strathclyde University, 9.30am-5pm - Speaking at 'Political pathologies: Psychic life between resistance and restraint'
✒️ Guestbook
📝 Microblog
- 07.05.26 Updated events and gallery.
- 02.02.26 Updated events, added bitrot webring.
- 21.11.25 Added letterboxd, deleted Insta.
- 10.11.25 Shared site via overlong Insta post
- 05.11.25 Finished first version of the site
- 04.11.25 Started site on Neocities
🎬 Letterboxd
🐮 A Gif
Keep Typing, Cowboy
🤔 Why?
I’ve never had a personal website before. This is partly because I’m wary of “a culture of compulsory self-promotion” and partly because I didn’t have much to promote. I used to really enjoy doing html websites in my teens though, and as I’ve found it increasingly impossible to justify using platforms like Instagram and Twitter (both now deleted) I came across the amazing Bitrot website/project, and people in Glasgow exploring new (old) ways of inhabiting online space. The principles that attract me to this and that I’ll try and stick to here are: free or cheaply accessible content & tools, no corporate platforms or hosting, celebrating free expression & creativity, decentralised, collaborative, using simple code that is geared towards easy replication and skill sharing (along with low server use), fun to use. Come join in!