Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Rhizomatic follower of rhizomes

Posted on 16th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I blame Kevin … and Alan … I knew no good would come of hanging around with dogs, and not cats… Here’s an ode to Dave 😉 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201117570″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Lyrics here

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My perspective on #rhizo15

Posted on 16th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

There’s been lots of talk about objectives and subjectives in #rhizo15 since Dave set this week’s topic. I played around with words such as subjecting ourselves as subjects and objecting to being treated like objects, but then I gave up … Continue reading →

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Not so private after all

Posted on 15th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

So here’s a funny thing. On Saturday I blogged about how I only played my uke in private. If you’d asked me about this at the time I’d have been adamant that nobody bar the cats was ever going to … Continue reading →

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Learning in private

Posted on 11th April 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m not a shy person. Ask anyone who knows me – I can be very fond of blowing my own trumpet. And I enjoy collaborative writing – the stuff we’ve been doing over the last year has been fun, and … Continue reading →

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Whose rules are they anyway?

Posted on 15th March 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve been talking a lot in my various social networks, communities, collectives (whatever the heck we are!) about exactly what #rhizo14 was.  Was it a MOOC? A course? A happening? A party?  Who knows.  At the time it all began we … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein PI

Posted on 1st March 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m so used to abbreviating Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations  to “PI” now that I’d forgotten how funny it used to seem.  Here’s a cartoon that a friend drew for me when we were undergrads together (she gave me permission to publish it … Continue reading →

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Perceived objectivity

Posted on 28th February 2015 by NomadWarMachine

You’ve probably seen pictures of that dress – is it black and blue, or gold and white, and what does this say about our perceptual experiences?  But enough about that. There’s another discussion I’ve been having with friends recently, about … Continue reading →

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Words can hurt

Posted on 25th February 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Mary Magdalene by User:Vassil (File:SĂ©pulcre_Arc-en-Barrois_111008_12.jpg) [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons There’s an old playground saying that we used to bandy around a lot as children: Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me. I said it … Continue reading →

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What’s the point of ethics?

Posted on 25th February 2015 by NomadWarMachine

It’s a frequent misconception that the Hippocratic Oath contains the phrase “do no harm”, and that means that doctors can’t do anything that might hurt their patients. But it doesn’t,  and sometimes they have to.  Primarily the thrust of the … Continue reading →

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A herd of freely associating, autonomous cats.

Posted on 23rd February 2015 by NomadWarMachine

At the moment some of us are attempting to finish an article about the collaborative autoethnography we’ve been working on since the second week of #rhizo14 (the first rMOOC?). One thing we’re attempting to characterise is the way that we zigzagged between … Continue reading →

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