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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Duck-rabbit
I have a very talented friend called Katy, who studied Philosophy at Crichton campus and heard about Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit. Here is it from the original Philosophical Investigations II, XI (p194). Wittgenstein is talking about the difference between “seeing”and “seeing as”, (or … Continue reading
Dichotomies
I like making lists, and I also like making tables. I know that the world’s not really black and white, but I taking an idea and looking at it in two ways – I like dichotomies. I’ve been playing around … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Philosophy, Rhizomes, Writing
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Rules for writing well
I’ve just finished Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and enjoyed it very much. The overall message of the book is that writers (he says social scientists, but I think this applies more widely … Continue reading
Book Lists
I’m an inveterate list maker, oft in my head, sometimes on paper, and I have a new project. A friend posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook feed, one of a book bath, one of a library, and they’ve … Continue reading
Materiality
I’ve been reading Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly:How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and very much enjoying his discussion of nominalisation, and why it can be such a bad thing in the Social Sciences (because it leads to ambiguity … Continue reading
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Rhizomatic MOOCS?
Anyone who knows me (probably) knows that I’m very taken with Deleuze and Guattari’s idea that knowledge is rhizomatic, not arborescent (think strawberry, not tree). I’ve been thinking a lot about MOOCs over the last few weeks, and writing some … Continue reading
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