Winston could not intermittently remember why the pain was happening. Behind his screwed-up eyelids a forest of fingers seemed to be moving in a sort of dance, weaving in and out, disappearing behind one another and reappearing again. He was trying to count them, he could not remember why. He knew only that it was... Continue Reading →
Dead Ricouerning: A few notes on individual and collective memory
Memory, whether you want to slice and dice it as "individual" or "collective" is about power and belonging. If you want to belong, you’ll remember it (where “it” is something that “we did to the tribe over the hill”/”they did to us”) the way WE want you to, ‘kay? If you want to be a... Continue Reading →
Should every day be shut up and write day? Probably yes…
“Shut up and write.” It’s a good exhortation, though the non-violent communication crowd will probably wince a bit at the tone. On Friday (November 28th) about 15 of us shut up and wrote. It worked like this; We gathered in a room with our laptops and plenty of power sockets. Off with the mobiles (not... Continue Reading →
Publish? Perish the thought!
There was a rather good advice session on Monday. It was on getting books and articles published. The book bit was amusing – we were given a (made-up) example of how NOT to do it and then some solid advice and warnings. Don't, when approaching a publisher (and do some research and personalising of any... Continue Reading →
Outa tuna with the natural world: On corporate concentration and environmental governance
A rather intriguing and canny seminar at Manchester Business School… Ever stand in the aisle, lost in the supermarket, and wonder what went into getting the products on the shelves? The tin mined for the cans, the oil drilled for the plastic packaging, the lives lost and the futures mortgaged for our present convenience? I... Continue Reading →
Of shopping and climate science…
My supervisors say I should focus. The wife says I should focus. If the cat could talk, it would tell me to focus (on it). At least two of them are right… Anyhows.. about the birth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… By the mid 80s, scientists were getting more and more sure –... Continue Reading →
Using Open Space or being “BOSSy”? How I would have done it….
Yet again I walked (flounced?). Yet again there’s communications (civil this time) with(one of) the organisers of the event. Yet again the old conscience/ego chides “well, instead of specific criticisms, why not spell out how you’ld have done it differently?” Here it is. There’s actually a couple of innovations I dreamt up today. It is... Continue Reading →
On “Open Space” and tosspots…
Marc Hudson has been to one too many event that describes itself as “open space”. The fightback starts here.[Update: here's how he'd have done it] The Evil Corporations and their Evil State lackeys are trying to defeat us!! They constantly steal our ideas, water them down, and then use them to sell their own very... Continue Reading →
Newsflash: Fossil Fuel Lobby using blonde moppets as human shields in war on planet
Personally I am not a big fan of fascism. Call me squeamish. Nor am I a big fan of the whole ubermensch “Aryan blonde-blued eyed” thing . Something to do with understanding who was on the land before whitey arrived and what whitey did to get that land. I am not saying that the people... Continue Reading →
Event report: “Enhancing Interdisciplinarity”
One of the joys of being a PhD student (asides being paid to read, “think”, write, hang out with very very smart people (and you too, Miles? 😛 ) is that you can go to day-long seminars on things called “Enhancing Interdisciplinarity.” I couldn’t stay to the end because I had a symposium on neo-institutional... Continue Reading →
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