May 2012
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Department Of Omnishambles: SIGMUND FREUD  →
departmentofomnishambles: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research, is “What do managers want?” On the one hand I am confronted with the unlimited orality displayed at interminable committee meetings; on the other one witnesses…
May 22nd
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Department Of Omnishambles: HANNAH ARENDT →
Finally got the student evaulation forms back from my “Bureacracy As Totalitarianism” module. Gutted. 2 out of 5 in three of the categories. I mean it’s not like I even wrote the course myself but who has time to generate new course materials? Feel totally stressed and paranoid. They were all…
May 22nd
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May 21st
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The Quest for Western Civilisation: Breivik's...
mayisthecruellestmonth: [Disclaimer: Text below is written from, probably blatantly arrogant, Eurocentric perspective; as I don’t feel in right place to describe the situation from perspective of e.g. Pakistani girl living in Islamabad, or even Pakistani girl living in London - but I cannot write also from a perspective of English girl living in London. It should be noted that, living in the so...
May 18th
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May 4th
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Moments, not monuments. Is history simply a matter of events that leave behind those things that can be weighed and measured — new institutions, new maps, new rulers, new winners and losers — or is it also the result of moments that seem to leave nothing behind, nothing but the mystery of spectral connections between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the...
May 4th
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May Day 2012: Not exactly the massive General Strike hoped for by Occupyistas. This is not as devastating as the miniscule turnout in Chicago for the Weathermen’s “Days of Rage” in October 1969, but it is a clear setback for a form of political organizing that rejects vertical structures and the articulation of goals. Occupy in America is over (perhaps prospects in other places...
May 1st