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paracademia
Paracademia is where you bring academic knowledge to work in fields not strictly academic, or where the non-academic works within academia as a partner. The paracademic is ever more present as on one hand academic paid work is in retreat and on the other academia is obliged by new regimes to engage with the outside …
babylonian virtues – minority report
Babylonian Virtues – Minority Report is the title of the second chapter by Gunjević in God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse. I didn’t read directly a reference to the film Minority Report in the chapter which is, effectively, an evaluation of Negri and Hardt’s book Empire in the context of their use of Augustinian ideas to …
lime
Gathering lime flowers with Afif. Finally managed to get to the lime tree on one of the few dry moments this summer. Took me back to Le Clauzel and the old lady Noellie.
this is terror too
Terror becomes the definition of terrorism. Combating terror, maintaining the sanctity of the private subject, becomes a given. It is not that these things are wrong just misplaced. If the definition of terror is widened then we will all be terrorists, all under suspicion, watched.
i say old bean
A certain someone’s humour is developing.
i asked which bit he was doing (iv)
Driving back with the kids they asked “Can we go and see Phlegm?” So we did and two of them came out to see what was going on. A man was there wearing a mask, or with it round his neck, a protection mask for spray paint. I asked which bit he was doing. The …
begging
At the local swimming pool as I arrive in the car and pull up to let the girls out two boys knock on the door. They follow the car and when I get out expressionless they ask for fifty pence to go swimming. The Roma have been moving to this area for a few years …
eyepatches and the devil
I took my daughter to school this morning and the class were cutting out a pirate hat. The teacher had used a shape that included an eye patch (the image shows a similar but more complex model). As the children were cutting, colouring and attaching the strip around the back to hold it onto their …
baking
Four lemon drizzle cakes for the allotment annual plant sale, well two for home and two for the sale.