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Thought Experiments aka Provocative Questions
If stories were written on rolodexes what would they be? What is a beginning and an ending, then? If stories were written on walls, in the round, what would they be? What is a beginning and an ending ... Read More
A Take Away Idea
Let’s introduce the concept of the ‘take away idea’. Each of the readings, even where they seem to cover a lot of ideas, theories, arguments, and so on, are written around a basic idea, conc... Read More
Maths and English – You Bet
Ten sonnets, in the original you could flip each line individually (like those children's books to create fantastic creatures), this creates 100,000,000,000,000 possible combinations, it would take so... Read More
Novels, An Assemblage of Histories
Now, if I were particular sort of theorist, for example some sort of Marxist, I might decide that one of the parts of what I've described as a 'conglomeration' is more important than the others, in tr... Read More
Danish Authority
Ditte describes the Danish Janteloven , which is one of ways in which Denmark (and Sweden and Norway) are very unusual, open, and 'flat' societies (income distribution is very even compared to other w... Read More
Free Speech
In other words, if I use some slang term to describe an ethnic group and someone finds it offensive, I cannot claim that I didn't mean anything by it, that some of my best friends are 'x' and they don... Read More
The Shirky Principle
Step three, still loosing market share and audience, we'll berate and yell that all that other stuff isn't really journalism, yes some of it is being written by the same people that, as journalists, w... Read More