On to the last chapter, chapter 8, with the final pre-submit edit. Chapter 7 was a bit of a worry in terms of structure, but I realised the biggest problem was that I had not explained why the examples I provided of the shifting composition of automotive technologies were important in the rise of the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
bullshit
From the editorial of The Australian: History will look kindly on John Howard’s political career, including most of his prime ministership. He repaired the financial ravages Labor left in the middle 1990s. He did a great deal to smother the fire of race hate lit by Pauline Hanson. Above all, he supervised the long boom […]
Worthy
Either ethics makes no sense at all, or this is what it means and has nothing else to say: not to be unworthy of what happens to us. — Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, p149 I have been thinking about worthiness a lot today. To get an appreciation of the active forces in our respective […]
Sober, sensible, professional are survival tactics
Interesting take on young professional workers and students by Lisa Pryor that deserves noting amongst all the Federal election hoopla. The reams of copy written about the conservatism of my generation may need to be revised. Material changes to the way the country works, rather than embracing right-wing ideology, explains why university students these days […]
after everything is said and done
So mostly finished the third chapter, five to go. There shall be a minor, unofficial celebration at the Clare Hotel, over the road from UTS, on Friday 30 November. All friends are welcome!! I have designed and ordered a new t-shirt to mark the occassion of submitting the dissertation. I got the idea after marking […]