Just the words, ma'am? Then skip the first two paragraphs. I have a glancing familiarity with some languages (French, Danish, Portuguese; minimal smatterings of others). One of the delights is learning words that have no direct translation (and then dropping them casually into conversations, in a puerile attempt at intellectual chest-beating. But I haven't done... Continue Reading →
On the Stepper: #ImStickingwithTony (not). Tech history, Field -Configuring Events, normative utopia
Was on the stepper on Thursday, reading about the global coal trade (Thank you IEA Coal Information 2014 and World Energy Council survey.) And yesterday, reading about the Australian Coal Export industry (more on that soon). Today was broader, and perhaps more fun (!?) I started with a speech by the soon-to-be-former Prime Minister Tony... Continue Reading →
Replica(n)ting empathy – or “What psychoanalysis can do for YOU”
Blooming heck. It’s not every day that you get to spend two hours in the presence of someone who, with zero flashiness, expands the floor of your mental cage every five minutes or so. (1) There was a CIDRAL (Centre for Interdiscplinary Research in Arts and Language) panel/symposium thingie at the Tin Can on Oxford... Continue Reading →
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