A couple of weeks ago Australian novelist Tim Winton wrote a really provocative piece called Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread, which I would strongly recommend. I wrote a response called Winton, Fanon and what is to be done: On climate, capture, Cesaire…, which got... Continue Reading →
A Looting the Ivory Tower on Sovacool, B. 2024. The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future. Nature Reviews Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00774-5 Not all academic work is self-serving word-spinning helpfully quarantined behind paywalls and verbiage walls. I wouldn’t want to hazard a percentage, and it varies from a) field to field and b) taste to... Continue Reading →
JSO is now an official nominee for the most cringe and WTAF email of 2024. Why? Just WHY? Just Stop Oil is a divisive organisation. They’re cool with that. Some lean into it, for good and baddish reasons. Glueing yourself to things, blocking oil refineries, blocking roads and - most notoriously of all - throwing... Continue Reading →
Film: Lee Director: Ellen Kuras Time: interminable, but officially 1hr 52 mins There’s a film involving flashbacks, the Blitz and women figuring out who they are. Made in 1995 it was called An Awfully Big Adventure.. Kate Winslet wasn’t in it. There’s a film involving flashbacks, the Blitz and women figuring out … Winslet in... Continue Reading →
You wait ages for a good skeuomorph to arrive, and two come along at once. I blogged about this a bit yesterday. See Help me invent a career-making shoddy little neologism! Something with skeuomorphs The crucial quote, from Jay Owens' book Dust, is here "For two centuries, London’s buildings were black. Blanketed in sulphurous soot from... Continue Reading →
Help me internet, you're my only hope. If I can come up with some neat name for a kinda-new-maybe-"concept", I'll get cited lots by academics, my Hype-index will climb into the positive, and I won't get laughed at in the rare job interviews that I stumble into. The situation is this There are such things... Continue Reading →
This from the Guardian in October 2024. Children are being “plunged into poverty”, a charity says, because of a lack of support for kinship carers – relatives or family friends who step in to look after children after a crisis. Kinship carers, who are often grandparents, are twice as likely as other adults to rely... Continue Reading →
Let’s get the cliches out of the way first. Those reviewing a circus are contractually obliged to say it was “fun for the whole family” and also “fun for children of all ages.” I went to Pinder's Circus tonight with my wife and her cousin. We are all decrepit and it was ... a very... Continue Reading →
I love the Financial Times. There, I said it. Why? Because Noam Chomsky told me to. Or, more accurately, Chomsky pointed out that the business press is for the people who actually run the show, and they need/demand accurate information. If you want to peak over their shoulders, it ain't cheap, but it is there.... Continue Reading →
Solicited advice sheet Author: Marc Hudson Date 29 Sept 2024 Situation Members of [group] have a face-to-face (and online?) meeting with the newly elected Labour MP for the area on [date] They have pre-sent [x] questions of information [xxxx] has approached me (Marc Hudson) for perspectives/advice Mission MH to provide pre-meeting advice/perspectives, primarily via this... Continue Reading →
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