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Category Archives: Philosophy
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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
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Philosophy, Rhizomes
Tagged Connectivism, Deleuze, MOOC, Rhizome
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On Procrastination
I was in my garden yesterday planting flowers and generally avoiding doing any research on the grounds that the plants couldn’t wait (not true – they’d have been fine till the weekend). I began to think about the ways in … Continue reading
Intrinsic interest
I’ve been asked to think about what intrinsic interest is for my PhD cluster* and I thought the best way to stop this topic annoying me and stopping me from getting on with what I am meant to be doing … Continue reading
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Being Wittgensteinian
When I did my first degree I also worked in a factory for a couple of days of the week. This meant that I could guarantee spending 2 hours at a stretch sitting at a machine with nothing to occupy … Continue reading
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On the difference between philosophy and dishwater
I’ve been chasing a half-remembered quote of Wittgenstein’s for a while now. As ever, when I found the text it was not saying exactly what I thought it was saying, but something even better. Here it is: Wittgenstein wrote to … Continue reading
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