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Event Report: “Urban Waste Transitions”- a wasted opportunity? #Manchester
Laurence Menhinick gets lost into academia-land for a day at the Sustainable Consumption Institute’s “Urban Waste Transitions Workshop.” Today was hardly about real waste. Or transition. Actually, what’s a workshop again? According to the welcome pack, over 55 people registered… … Continue reading
Event Report: A game of one half – witnessed
Attention Conservation Notice: MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson makes it half-way through a day-long academic seminar about climate change and social movements before finally losing his rag and invoking the law of two feet. Not of interest to casual readers. Or … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Democratic deficit, Event reports
Tagged academics can't help it – or us, climate camp, death by powerpoint, Dunning-Kruger, ego-fodder, ESRC, for the record – the fossil record, get your bloody gameface on, I hate it how often my wife is right and I am wrong, I loved the smell of burning bridges in the morning, internal muppetry, Irony Police, Ivory Towerers, jumps the shark, law of two feet, muppetry of the highest order, not good enough, old enough to leave when it jumps the shark, sage on the stage, screw politeness, sunk costs, there's no there there, Transitions, zuhanden, Zygmunt Bauman
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Off-topic: Activists and Academics – thesis and antithesis?
Every so often invites from academics (for this seminar or that interview) land on the doormat at MCFly Towers. Or else we invite ourselves along to something that, although by and for academics should not be an “academic” subject. You … Continue reading
Posted in academia, humour
Tagged chin-stroking, death by powerpoint, Gramsci, ivory tower, organic intellectuals, sage on the stage, ufas
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