Not a huge Austen fan (that says more about me than her, perhaps?) but there were quite a few laugh-out-loud moments in this film, based on a novella that wasn’t published until 50 years after she’d snuffed it (there IS a novella of hers called Love and Friendship, but the film is based on another... Continue Reading →
The powerlessness of power?
This below is from a Quarterly Essay called Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogny by Anna Goldsworthy. It's in the correspondence bit, talking about the previous essay, 'Not Dead Yet' by Mark Latham. I have added the links. [Moises] Nairn is the author of a well-received recent book, The End of Power [Guardian Review], which argues... Continue Reading →
Books I absolutely did not buy today.
I went to a worthy (and fun) protest at which people closed their accounts with the Commonwealth Bank, because it (and the other three biggies) are saying they want to keep the world under the two degree warming target, which I wrote a short factual piece about, and will use to think more about mobilising... Continue Reading →
“Whatever you need to tell yourself”
The wife and I have a 'nuclear option' in our infrequent bickerings, namely "whatever you need to tell yourself". It's such a supreme asshole move that we use it either sparingly or tongue-in-cheek. Because, after all, it is a claim to superior knowledge over someone else's 'false consciousness', isn't it? And indifference to that view,... Continue Reading →
Innovation journeys and “proof of concept”
New technologies have the "liability of newness". People are understandably worried about what might go wrong, who would be paying for the cost of the clean-up and so on. And those who are quite happy making money/sustaining their power from the current way of doing things (aka "incumbents") are not above a little lying/fixing of... Continue Reading →
DDT is good for meeeee!! And ‘defensive institutional work’
So, the latest to write about in my 'only read what you intent to blog' Maguire, S. and Hardy, C. 2009. Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: The Decline of DDT. Academy of Management Journal, Vo. 52, (1), pp.148-178. There’s heaps of good stuff in this paper, which is about how DDT went from hero to zero in... Continue Reading →
How the sun also rises- on solar energy, institutional shifts and industry creation
Day three of my policy of writing about each paper/book I read under three categories (in escalating importance a) highlight interesting theory/facts b) relate the reading to other (academic) reading, and c) how it helps me move forward on my Thesis, (Handing Over M-phatically August/September ’17) (aka "THOMAS"). Today's article (and yes, having... Continue Reading →
Blame games and framing battles over renewables in South Australia
Adelaide and energy systems have one thing in common – they rarely dominate the news agenda in Australia. However, twice in the past three months they have been front and centre. That reveals something interesting about the 'framing battles' taking place over renewable energy and whose vision for Australia's future will win. Price spike and... Continue Reading →
Concern trolling, gaslighting, lying and other corporate strategies versus transition…
Day two of my new policy about writing what I read. a) highlight interesting theory/facts b) relate the reading to other (academic) reading, and c) how it helps me move forward on my Thesis, (Handing Over M-phatically August/September (’17) (Thomas). This paper below came via my supervisor and it is bloody fantastic. Smink,... Continue Reading →
Two Lewises and the America Empire. Oh, and resonance machines…
So, new policy. Stuff that gets read while I walk around the park with a backpack full of books and weights [walk in the park], gets written up before I am allowed to do any more reading. And the job is to try to a) highlight interesting theory/facts b) relate the reading to other (academic)... Continue Reading →
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