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Monthly Archives: October 2005

The Elephant in the Room

20 Comments Posted by on October 12, 2005

I’ve been reading through George Lakoff’s work off and on over the past several months – moving from his linguistic theory on metaphor and bodily experience, through to his more recent partisan political writings. In his partisan work, such as the articles posted on the Rockridge Institute website or the book Don’t Think of an [...]

Cognitive Science, Critical Theory, Linguistics

Flyvbjerg Redux

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 12, 2005

I noticed a sudden increase in hits on posts I had written on Flyvbjerg a few months back. It turns out Kerim from the Savage Minds blog has linked to one of them, in the course of a review of the same Flyvbjerg work that had inspired me to comment. Kerim’s review of Flyvbjerg is [...]

Critical Theory, Links

Hiatus: Advanced Australian Politics

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 9, 2005

I hadn’t intended to go so long without posting. I was unexpectedly offered an opportunity to design and teach an undergraduate course in Advanced Australian Politics – unfortunately, the offer was somewhat last-minute and, to do justice to the unfamiliar material and to the students in the course, I’ve deferred posting to the blog to [...]

Courses, Professional Life, Teaching

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