Tag Archives: austerity

You don’t always get what you want

Posted on 10th July 2016 by NomadWarMachine

A constant refrain in our office is that we wish people would tell us what they’d like to be able to do, instead of telling us what they think they want. So they will go to conferences and see shiny … Continue reading →

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Burying my demons

Posted on 16th March 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s DS106 Daily Create is to create a tombstone. It’s hard to know what to choose – so many worthy candidates – but we’ve had a rough few days of it in the office so the first one I chose was … Continue reading →

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Capitalism and Freire

Posted on 19th January 2015 by NomadWarMachine

  Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed,  not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated. (Simone de Beauvoir, … Continue reading →

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