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Category Archives: Philosophy
How to philosophise with a hammer
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Deleuze and Guattari ATP p x11 At other times another means of recovery which is even more to … Continue reading
Posted in D&G, Philosophy, Writing
Tagged D&G, Deleuze, hammer, Nietzsche, Philosophy, the DAmned
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It depends how you look at it
There’s a story that’s often told about a bunch of blind men and an elephant. Each man only encounters a part of the elephant and, based on their partial understanding, disagree with the others about the *real* nature of the … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo15, D&G, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Philosophy, Researcher Journal, Rhizomes
Tagged #clmooc, blind men, elephant, perspectivism, Rhizome
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Be the Pink Panther
Today’s Daily Create brought to mind a quote from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Write to the nth power, the n – 1 power, write with slogans: Make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don’t sow, grow offshoots! Don’t be one … Continue reading
Posted in D&G, DailyCreate, DS106, Philosophy
Tagged #DS106, #tdc2358, ATP, Daily Create, gif, Pink Panther. D&G
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Ampen, Don’t Dampen
A week of reflection. Finding that friends were hurting and we didn’t know. Knowing that I’d been hurt as well. What to do? What to think? What to say? A slogan from Terry jingling around in my head resulted in … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, D&G, Online learning, Peer interaction, Philosophy, postcards, Rhizomes
Tagged #tdc1993 #ds106, ampen don't dampen, friendship, online interaction, play nice
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Funny Fallacies
I know clever and funny people. Today’s Daily Create asked us to illustrate our favourite fallacy. I chose this – note my use of Wikipedia as a source: And got the following two responses: Take 2! #tdc1980 #30daytdc Fallicious Follies!! **sigh** … Continue reading
I am not a digital citizen
I’m keeping half an eye on the #digciz hashtag at the moment and watching folk have a conversation about digital citizenship. I don’t understand why they are using the term “citizen” at all – it’s really not clear to me … Continue reading
Posted in Online learning, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged #digciz, digital citizenship, politics 101
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Deleuze is hard
I remember a couple of years ago, maybe during rhizo14, some people getting annoyed about Deleuze and complaining that it was hard. Well, it is – no doubt about that. I’ve spend years practicing philosophy and I still don’t find … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, #Rhizo16, D&G, Philosophy
Tagged D&G, Deleuze, Philosophy, pomo, Rhizome, Sokal
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The professional is always personal
O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ ev’n devotion! To a … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Learning, Online learning, Philosophy, Politics, Rhizomes, Social Media, University
Tagged Deleuze, digital citizenship, Nietzsche, personal identity, Rousseau
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Dream Team
Yesterday’s Daily Create asked us build our dream team of five. Meh, no inspiration for that – so here’s Deleuze’s five from ATP: Yet much of positive value came of Deleuze’s flirtation with the greats. He discovered an orphan line of … Continue reading
Posted in D&G, DailyCreate, DS106, Philosophy, Rhizomes
Tagged #DS106, #TDC1748, Bergson, D&G, Hume, Lucretius, Nietzsche, Spinoza
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Old books I would not want to be without
The Daily Create yesterday was bizarre: There are only 3 tweets with this hashtag on Twitter. We found it via @mr45144 and we would love to add some #ds106 love to #OldBooksIDareNotPartWith today. Find a book you dare not part … Continue reading
Posted in D&G, DailyCreate, DS106, Philosophy, Reading, Wittgenstein
Tagged #TDC1727 #DS106 Daily Create, Books, D&G, knitting, Philosophy, Wittgenstein
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