I got a call from the Independent‘s postgraduate supplement: my name had been passed on by the Fulbright Commission, and I was being interviewed as an example of someone whose decisions for postgraduate study would have been different had the effects of the CSR or Browne Review proposals been in place at the time of [...]
Archive for October, 2010
a bit of fuzzy anticapitalism for the postgraduate supplement
Posted in revolution now on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t really have a choice. It’s war, now.
Posted in campaigning, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re not out setting fire to something, you’re not paying attention * My housemate Beth thinks a few people giving a damn is almost worse than none giving a damn at all. Because it looks so pathetic. The privatisation of the entire universe is getting me down: sometimes, emerging from the depression, I actually come [...]
one hundred objects for the history of the world
Posted in culture on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is it all over then. Are we the children of the end of history. Radio 4′s series A History of the World in 100 Objects is over. Objects have been selected to cover the broadest possible chronological and geographical period, and tell a history of the world from two million years ago to the present day. [...]
Nature, Society, and Environmental hypocrisy … an anecdote from a Master’s of Science course at Oxford’s Centre for the Environment
Posted in climate justice on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My new Master’s has a wonderful team dynamic wholly unknown to one used to BA English Literature, where the last thing anyone wants to do is spread around their new insight into the Canterbury Tales before the next tutorial. Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the ECI, Oxford, is all about class meetings and file [...]
In response to a lecture entitled “Crisis Into Opportunity”
Posted in climate justice, revolution now, shock doctrine on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More than bankers, more than tsars More than rugby lads and cars I hate ‘green experts’ in suits Who speechify on “moderate routes” To ecological transition, Warning against “extremism”, Standing, as though on our side, In their elite formaldehyde, Buffered against climate crisis, Asking what the market price is For “pre-empting” “innovations” Which will “surely” [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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