Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

The Spirit of the Age?

Posted on 11th January 2014 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve just spent a while creating a blog post for my official uni blog only to find that the ability to embed YouTube is not enabled on the site 🙁 I was already grumbly and mumbling about corporate capitalists and … Continue reading →

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Another blog

Posted on 10th December 2013 by NomadWarMachine

Recently my University set up an official blog for Uni staff.  I haven’t quite worked out how to use it yet (as in, what I should be posting), but it makes sense to have something a bit more official for … Continue reading →

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Quack quack

Posted on 20th November 2013 by NomadWarMachine

Recently I became a great aunty (yeah, I know, I’ve always been a great aunty, ask my nephews and nieces, haha).  Luke and Sarah love ducks, so I made this wee hat and bootees for Willow.  Doesn’t she look sweet?

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Spies Are Reading My Blog (David Rovics)

Posted on 6th November 2013 by NomadWarMachine

I’ve just downloaded David Rovics‘ latest album Spies Are Reading My Blog and am listening to it while Niall makes pizza.  There’s some great tracks, so far the title track is my favourite.  I subscribe to David, which means I’ve agreed to … Continue reading →

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Duck-rabbit

Posted on 26th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Dichotomies

Posted on 26th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Rules for writing well

Posted on 19th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Book Lists

Posted on 16th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Materiality

Posted on 12th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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?

Posted on 10th October 2013 by NomadWarMachine

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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