As an Australian, it kinda sorta gives me a small amount of pleasure to write the following sentence “England lost the Ashes in a record time of 12 days.” To those in the know, these are (mildly) surprising words. To normal people (i.e. not “cricket tragics”) they will ask two pertinent questions - “what are... Continue Reading →
Magpie 34 online!
Had a super-useful meeting today with various people. One of the outcomes was that I am going to put the rest of The Magpie online (with permission of its editor, Ian Brown). Here's a link to the pdf of issue 34, Spring 1995. The rest will follow, two a day, until they're all done... You... Continue Reading →
Brilliant 1991 book about sterility of left culture and what to do instead…
We've all been there (or been it) - the tinpot little dictator who wants to enforce the One True Way of Thinking about issue x or y or z, and the dictator's followers and enablers enthusiastically enforcing that OTWOT in order to a) prove their reliability and b) suppress any doubts they may have c)... Continue Reading →
“Our Extractive Age” – interview with the editors
There's a new edited volume, "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance," which I can heartily recommend (and thanks to Earthscan for sending me a hard copy). The wonderful New Books Network let me interview the editors as a podcast, and have also given permission for a transcript (which the interviewees have lightly edited/changed)... 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 →
Environmentalists’ gross dereliction of duty, #COP26
We should of course be angry at the right people at the right time and in the right ways (1). There has been an achingly successful campaign first to deny the existence of climate change, then to say that doing anything about it can either wait or would be massively expensive. We should be angry... Continue Reading →
“TIS and six criticisms”
This paper is a response to six criticisms made of the authors' "baby" - the Technlogical Innovation Systems appraoch. Markard, J., Hekkert, M and Jacobsson, S. 2015. The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 16, 76–86 They take each one in turn, give what seems to be to my inexpert... 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 →
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