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Monthly Archives: September 2006

What Am I Trying to Do?

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 28, 2006

I received an email query about my conference paper which, among other things, asked: can I ask what problem did you think you were addressing. is it the problem foundationalists worry about ie., how do we reliably/certainly ground our critique and/or our transformative practice?? I thought it was worth reproducing the question and part of [...]

Critical Theory, Philosophy of History

Overheard at the Conference: Words and Things

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 28, 2006

At least one person seems to share my confusion about theory-as-classification: Person One: So how was your session? Person Two: Well, the title didn’t really reflect what it was about. It was really just a semantic discussion trying to home in on what is the definition of community engagement vs. community consultation vs… I mean [...]

Events, Overheard

Latte Politics

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 27, 2006

The other day, I stopped in to a cafe I visit occasionally, looking for a quick coffee. I placed my order, but background noise kept me from making out some additional bit of information that had never been required before. The conversation went something like: Barista: “So, would you like WHZZZRRRRvroom? Or regular?” Me: “I’m [...]

Coffee, Miscellaneous, Procrastination

Acknowledgement Website

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 27, 2006

I just wanted to put in quick plug for the Acknowledgement project – a joint endeavour between the University of Melbourne and Monash University to develop plagiarism and academic integrity materials designed for academics, rather than for students. I attended a brief presentation about the project yesterday, and have just been playing around with the [...]

Links, Teaching

The Order of Things

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 27, 2006

Just wanted to post a few quick thoughts about my reactions to the Governments and Communities in Partnership conference thus far. The conference is divided between refereed academic papers and practitioner presentations (often combined in the same panel, but still distinct presentation types) and, because I’m using the conference to learn about regional issues that [...]

Critical Theory, Events, Math and Science, Philosophy of History

Talking the Talk

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 25, 2006

I won’t blog today about the other papers at the Governments and Communities in Partnership conference – I’ve sketched some notes on some interesting convergent themes, but I’ll try to sum those up in a post tomorrow. I did want to post a copy of the talk I delivered below the fold – the talk [...]

Blogging, Critical Theory, Drafts, Events, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Reading Group

Governments and Communities Conference

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 24, 2006

For the next few days, I’ll be at a Melbourne University Centre for Public Policy conference, ambitiously titled Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice. I’ve mentioned previously that the paper I’ll be delivering there doesn’t exactly meet the ambitious “from theory to practice” goal posed in the conference title. Looking back over [...]

Drafts, Events

Holy Moses!

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2006

I’ve been intending to point readers to this BBC article on Amanda McKittrick Ros. I was too busy to put a post together in a timely fashion, though, and I now notice that many other bloggers have fun posts up on Ros and other creators of almost demonically inspired bad writing. The BBC article promotes [...]

Links, Procrastination, Writing

Want to See Something Really Scary?

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2006

Scott Eric Kaufman over at Acephalous is blogging about dissertation fears again (for the record, he and I have had this conversation before). Scott started things off with four of his fears; others have added theirs – as of this posting, the list is up to 16 (with two different contenders for #15). My main [...]

Links, Procrastination, Professional Life, Writing

*sigh*

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2006

Site problems again… You may see some odd issues over the next several days, as we play around in the back end…

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