Wow, the TV show Jericho just got really good. It is worth watching the first 15 episodes just to get to the 16th. Finally the contingencies being encountered are completely produced within the post-apocalyptic universe of the show rather than a fantastic projection of the pre-nuclear-war world into the post-. This transforms the action and […]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
thesis progress
I had a productive meeting with my supervisors this morning. They had just read through my monolithic ‘scene’ chapter and gave me constructive feedback. It reminds me of the time writing an article with Mel where I would write something barely comrehensible in Glen-speak on the edge of my understanding of something, pushing ti to […]
an education system that nurtures creativity
Via Jean, here is a great talk by some dude called Sir Ken Robinson on education and creativity. He is really good. EDIT: Wow, I like his strip mining analogy. And the notion of a human ecology was raised by Guattari.
Manage Your Debt
On one side of my local shopping centre (‘mall’) there are spruikers for charities trying to get me to consume some anti-guilt. Opposite the exit of an upwards esculator to the same level is this little machine where you can exchange your immortal soul for the good old bourgeois dream. If you have forgotten, death […]
contingency and complexity
I feel like I am watching everything from space And in a minute I’ll hear my name and I’ll wait I think the finish line’s a good place we could start Take a deep breath, take in all that you could want — “Finish Line” by Snow Patrol What if one had read The Logic […]