My, doesn't that sound like a particularly bad Robert Ludlum novel (three inch thrillers with three word titles)? It's about being able to blot out the horrible thing that is inevitably coming, and do what you have to do in the meantime. Sisyphus blah de blah, yadder yadder yadder. In case you don't know the... Continue Reading →
All those Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model agony aunt letters in one handy place
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda, and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’ - technological innovation (or lack thereof) in response to societal problems (car safety, local air pollution, climate change). Here’s a... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the state
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the activists (2 letters!!)
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady; Phase 4, the state
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
The world between Rio (1992) and Paris (2015)
In 1992 the 'Earth Summit' in Rio gave us the Framework Convention on Climate Change. A generation later, 'the world' (cough cough) looks on to Paris for another such statement. What are the similarities and differences between the two lead-up periods? Some initial thoughts... Disclaimers- 1) this post is to fulfil a promise to a... Continue Reading →
An incomplete list of books I brought back from Australia
Incomplete because it doesn't include a couple I took with, or the ones my amazing wife kindly packed in her luggage. And yes, I have read some, and intend to read/make good use of the rest. Am applying for an increase on my word limit for my thesis blah blah blah. PhD (and some others... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 4, the Industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
talktalk is jokejoke – phoned me back to hassle me?!
Lord give me strength. Talktalk is one of these useless companies that sells TV broadband, mobile and phone. I am sure they massively underpay their sales drones. And probably overpay their advertising agency. And their directors, of course. I simply phoned up to ask them to tell them to stop wasting their money and my... Continue Reading →
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