For those of you who aren't up with the lingo: When we burn fossil Fuels (coal, oil and gas) to get energy, we release carbon dioxide. This is bad because it adds to the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere and more carbon dioxide traps more heat, which melts ice caps, causes droughts... Continue Reading →
Counter-movement techniques – the snitch jacket… #Zersetzung
There are dozens upon dozens of ways to crack a movement. One of the more inventive ones is the snitch jacket - to make it seem like someone who is NOT an agent/asset/informer/source actually is. And given that it is very difficult (impossible!) to prove that you are NOT an agent/asset/informer/source, well... This from a... Continue Reading →
Samuel Johnson – what have ye done? (inspired by reading @OliverBurkeman book “4000 Weeks”)
Reading a borrowed copy of Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks" (self-help/philosophy with added Heidegger and also good stuff), I am thinking of Samuel Johnson's wonderful essay "What Have Ye Done?" If you haven't read it already, you're in for a treat. If you have read it, read it again - there's some serious wisdom in... Continue Reading →
Lead letter in the FT!! #NotHumbleBrag
I have had a couple (maybe three?) letters in the pink 'un over the years. But never the lead letter. Is it about COP26? Is it about industrial decarbonisation and the politics thereof? Is it heck. It's about my misspent youth reading in excess... And death. Always with the death... Is "macabre Buddhist propaganda" a... Continue Reading →
TIS & MLP – “Towards an integrated framework”
So, focusing my next batch of academic reading around the Technological Innovation Systems concept. If you have other things on this, besides these seven, you think I should read, lemme know. First up Markard J. and Truffer, B. 2008. Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework. Research Policy 37 596–615 Lots... Continue Reading →
TISWAS always the sociotechnical transitions framework I should have gotten to grips with. #BetterLate and all that… #IndustrialDecarbonisation
So, I am, as per my last post, less ignorant about my ignorance. As far as I can see, through a glass darkly and all that... And I think that the most important bit of ignorance that I should do something about in the short-term, is on Technological Innovation Systems (see handy wikipedia entry here).... Continue Reading →
“Less ignorant about my own ignorance”: what I gained after reading 10 academic articles in 7 days…
It's done. I have now read 30 academic articles in 24 days. And I am significantly less ignorant about my own ignorance, which is as much as could reasonably have been expected. Here's the list of 20 I read, and the piece I wrote after that. Here's the list of 10 that I just read.... Continue Reading →
Keeping the balls in the air, literally
For the last three months I have been teaching myself to juggle. Extremely soothing, when you are "in the flow." I would not have got anywhere without the great "Taylor tries" videos, which, if you want to learn to juggle, you should definitely check out. I've got a bunch of the three ball basics -... Continue Reading →
Nicely done- “The continuing failure of UK climate change mitigation policy” (article 3 of 10)
So, full disclosure, I know the author of this piece, and mostly get on with him (we disagree over the likely effectiveness of Extinction Rebellion, but so what). The piece is good. It "focuses on the UK government’s policies on mitigation. It evaluates the shifts in approach to climate change since 1992, lists the various... Continue Reading →
Article 14 of 20 – “From Receding to Reseeding: Industrial Policy, Governance Strategies and Neoliberal Resilience in Post-crisis Britain”
Every so often you come across an article that is the bomb. It asks questions you didn't even know you were asking (but you were) and is so obviously shot through with a deep understanding of debates that you barely know the names of. It casually refers to "obvious" distinctions that you would have blundered... Continue Reading →
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