Mach the allotment cat has died. He was, we think, about 13 or 14, which is an astonishing knock for a stray with FIV. He came into our lives in about 2004 or 5, as a stray who would sneak in the cat flap and steal the food of Cassidy and Delilah. While Cassidy might... Continue Reading →
Ha, I now have a column at The Conversation, called "Hot Mess: Unravelling the climate challenge paralysis" (I wanted "unravelling climate (,) policy paralysis" but knew that it would look too tricksy). Anyway, you can read it here. Ten years ago today, Kevin Rudd spoke at the National Climate Summit at Parliament House, in Canberra,... Continue Reading →
Too tired (long story) to do any creative work on the Thesis, and having done enough grunt work on it too, for today, I am in the process of writing a paper for a conference here in Manchester about alternative futures and popular protest. It will not be a popular paper. It will slag off... Continue Reading →
Ah, this takes me back, to Mozambique, oddly enough (long story, another time). Baby can you teach me - how to Baby can you reach me, I'm calling out for you Underneath your window tonight I know I ain't no romeo, so help me make it right If I can get this message through to... Continue Reading →
Then again. So, one of the pleasures of being a PhD student is that you get - occasionally - to sit around and talk about stuff you've read (it's less pleasurable when it's something you've written [i.e. supervisions]. But I digress). As part of the cities/urban sustainability reading group, we were getting our thinking gear... Continue Reading →
So, with a fellow PhD student I've set up a blog called 'feminismandtwoguys'. The about is this We are two guys (Steffen and Marc) who are studying in Manchester. This site is about us trying to learn from different types of feminism. That involves listening, reflecting, honouring the vast amount of physical and intellectual work... Continue Reading →
Somewhere in the pile of things-read-awaiting-bookmarking-on-t'website is a recent article on the what the authors called "memory work" - (corporate) work of suppressing past mis-behaviour. It does not use R.D. Laing, but it could. This below is the epigram from Joanna Russ's amazing book 'The Female Man' [my review here] If Jack succeeds in forgetting... Continue Reading →
Our wetware has missed quite a few upgrades, hasn't it? It left the factory all buggy and in beta, shaped by encounters - over millennia - with sabre-tooth tigers etc that saw us as easy meat. We have cognitive biases up the wazoo, and often lack even the awareness of that [Dunning-Kruger etc etc]. It's... Continue Reading →
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