Buried deep in heaps of code, your syntax draws joy, like blood from a turnip, like a sword from a stone.
It purrs my restless heart, evens my jaggedy, craggy, spindly hope.
Were there ever another composite in my furtive brow, my angular eyebrow, my deep, deep heart, it would pain me.
For the sheer innovation of this moment, as you cook, your back turned to me, is sublime, like a yurt on the grassy plains outside UlanBataar, the singular granularity of green in my imaginative soul, the creative violence of captured imagination, of memory.
For all the clumsy stabs at placating emotions, mounds of barren placebos thrown in a deep dank well, sleepless nights, twittering and electric, have led me to this.
This sun, this day, this soaring mind, streaming the earth below for fodder, for food;
If ever you were mine, yet you are mine. Mine is not me; for I am you.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
