Lecturer @UniKent interested in organizations, Deleuze and Guattari, ethnography, the anthropocene and being insufferable. Associate Dean of Education @KBS_Kent
The paper is really interesting, but the framing of the reporting around it is honestly hilarious.
"Honey, we're going to have to cut back on our climate change this year. With the car payments and little Timmy's braces, we just can't afford it."
theguardian.com/environment/…
We'll be welcoming all of the new undergraduate students to @KBS_Kent over the next few days. As part of my "Welcome to KBS" talks, I give them all these challenges for their first year.
ALT 5 Challenges from your Associate Dean:
1. Seize every opportunity that the university makes available to you.
2. Manage yourself and always have a plan.
3. Actively engage in learning something new every day.
4. Make a friend who comes from a different walk of life.
5. Look for ways to be kind.
"Doomist thinking is dangerous because it breeds paralysis and disengagement, which is precisely what the forces of climate inaction seek" is a really interesting mechanism of affective control/a way to enforce mandatory hopefulness.
ft.com/content/60f6e94a-eb3b…
I apologize in advance to anyone in my life who comes to me with a genuine problem in the next year, and has to watch me pause, think carefully, and then say "I have a solution: Wolves".
In my defence, it's a good solution. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we explore a vision of capitalism that fully grapples with its ability to liberate desire. Under such a reading, any strategy that one adopts will be re-appropriated and recaptured by capitalism and used to further its own ends. 3/4
Resisting is a part of the process & even the acceleration of capitalism's destructive tendencies can easily become part of its process.
We thus conclude that teaching in a business school is a necessarily depressing affair.
Thanks to @fdevaujany for the editorial support 4/4
Spent the last week greenfield camping in a field in Barham with the @scouts and other leaders of 16th Canterbury. Everyone had an amazing time doing archery, air rifle shooting, incident hikes, cooking over fires, and telling stories etc.
Now to get home and have a proper wash!
As epistolary, queer, posthuman, romance: 9/10. Beautiful. Heartrending. Involving.
As a metaphysically challenging book about a time war: 0/10. Contains no mention of syzegetic lemurs.
Sometimes book covers can in fact be misleading.
Still cloudy on the Munros so I did the ridge north of Glenmore.
Meall a' Bhuachaille to Creagan Gorm to Craiggowrie.
Finished with a drink at the Pine Marten bar. A great day.
It's always great to cheer on our @KBS_Kent graduates. Congratulations to all of the students who got their awards over the last week.
We're so proud of you.
Paper submitted for the @egosnet conference. Really looking forward to reading the others in the "System Change, Not Climate Change" stream. Cagliari here we come...
Don't mind me, I'm just collecting stories about sewage for very normal reasons that have nothing to do with spending too much time reading Libidinal Economy. theguardian.com/environment/…
In York to talk sustainability, organization, and ethnography with colleagues. narti.org.uk/event/ethnograp… Come join us if you're in the neighbourhood tomorrow.