Is sexual harassment just a bit of fun? I think the experts on this question are probably construction workers.
Walter Benjamin used strolling through the city of Paris as the means by which to understand the night life of its streets. In this sunnier account I'm reflecting on a bike ride I did one day down through the Valleys of South Wales and a sort of canine observation exercise which unfolded naturally before me as I cycled along. The anthropologist Bourdieu in his Distinction describes how social class is expressed in a myriad of small cultural choices and I'm sure he would have regarded the kind of dog we like to have around as part of this habitus.
