The third and revised edition of Visual Methodologies, by my OU colleague Gillian Rose, has been published, along with a supporting web resource. Essential for a properly reflexive season’s viewing, I would have thought.
A Christmas message from Clive and Nick
For some of you, the mention of segments at this time of year will bring to mind chunks of orange flavoured chocolate. Alternatively, here is your three minute guide to cutting-edge issues in the uses of market segmentation in public engagement activities.
Quentin Skinner interview
From the online journal The Art of Theory, the second part of their interview with Quentin Skinner.
Coetzee as Costello on animals
Via Books Live, an opinion piece by JM Coetzee on the morality of human/animal relations as revealed by factory farming practices.
Dr. Gingrich, I presume?
For those interested in such things, here are a couple of, er, ‘appreciations’ of Newt Gingrich’s PhD, on ‘Belgian Education Policy in the Congo 1945-1960’ (he thought it was OK, really, all things considered), by Adam Hochschild and Robert Paul Wolff.
David Montgomery 1927-2011
Here is a brief obituary for the American labour historian David Montgomery, at The Nation by Jon Wiener.
This week’s Pop (Theory) Quiz
Or, random quotes hanging around my desk.
Who said this?
“Between the Charybdis of unconditional reflection and the Scylla of the dead weight of custom lies the vast landscape where our critically reflective games of freedom have their home”
And who said this?
“Reasons do not swim about like globules of fat on the soup of consciousness”.
Pssst.. it wasn’t him over there.
Geography Matters!
A shout-out for Geography Matters, the Facebook page looked after by my colleague Melissa Butcher, designed as “a site for promoting geography research and teaching”, not only, it should be said, the research and teaching of geography at the OU. It’s more like a ‘hub’ for things of interest, geography-wise. The place to go if you’re looking for geography-friends.
Amongst other things, you will find a link there to the website of another of my colleagues, Joe Smith, introducing 10 short films on climate change.
Old Uncle Habermas
A profile of Habermas as The Last European.
The Umbrella Man
This little film by Errol Morris about The Umbrella Man in Deeley Plaza sort of captures all of the themes of the last few days’ blogs: protest, conspiracy, uncertain knowledge, the meaning of events changing with the passage of time, dodgy policing. Wonderful – thanks, Mark, for the link.
Pop Theory 