Maundering #1 One of the key techniques for defensive institutional work is to make nonsense; to destroy or at the very least degrade the sense-making capacity of your opponents. Disorientate your enemy, deprive them of the ability to figure out – (quick enough - these are OODA loops, don't forget), what is going on. Screw... Continue Reading →
Phantastic objects and concept fetishism
What are phantastic objects? This - phantastic objects are subjectively very attractive “objects” (people, ideas or things) which people find highly exciting and idealise. They engage core biological and psychological processes of human attachment and falling in love so that people seek to attach themselves to them because they imagine (feel rather than think) they... Continue Reading →
Thrashing thrashing
Ah, we have so many ways of distracting ourselves. Most of us do, anyway. I quite like this (though a brain is not a computer!) It is the same with a computer cache: there will be a hierarchy - from super-fast memory in the microprocessor itself all the way down to a hard drive (slow)... Continue Reading →
Glossaries and my undiagnosed CDO
CDO? That's OCD, in the correct alphabetical order, dammit. So, it's been an interesting couple of weeks. Quite stressful. And one of the ways I cope with stress (a displacement activity, perhaps) is to try to categorise information. It somehow soothes me. Go figure. Here are five glossaries that I've worked on (some I started quite a... Continue Reading →
Adventures in policy concepts…
Public policy for fun and ... profit? I've been on a major reading binge over the last month or so (Policy Studies Journal, I'm looking at you). Most of that has been around three theories/frameworks/models - Advocacy Coalitions Framework, Punctuated Equilibrium and Multiple Streams. Why? To try to test/extend the Dialectical Issue LifeCycle Model, especially... 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 →
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 →
Drawing the threads together
Ariadne wanted to weave a tale to get her man safe out of the maze... I could do with an Ariadne watching over me, but then couldn't we all. This will have to do. This site is going to be big, and will occasionally be clever, if only because I will be writing about clever... Continue Reading →
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