More reflections prompted by: Clare Cooper Marcus, House as a mirror of self. Exploring the deeper meaning of home, Lake Worth, Nicolas Hays, 2006 [1995]. Cooper Marcus argues following Jung that: “In the course of our lives, other people enter, and sometimes leave the field of our psychic awareness. […] What is less obvious is that …
Browsing a not terribly high end bookshop in Brisbane, somewhat surprisingly I came across this book: Clare Cooper Marcus, House as a mirror of self. Exploring the deeper meaning of home, Lake Worth, Nicolas Hays, 2006.[1995] I have long been fascinated by the relation between home and physical space. Interestingly, there appears to be only …
This looks interesting. I’m posting here to remind myself to read it. Available for free or for a small donation online or in paperback. Ansgar Allen, The Cynical Educator, Mayfly books, 2018 Ground down, disenchanted, but committed to education. Unable to quit, yet deploring everything education has become. We suffer a weakened and weakening cynicism. …
(Re) thinking translations. Methodologies, objectives, perspectives European University Institute, Villa Salviati 11-12 October 2018 Villa Salviati – Via Bolognese 156 Florence, Italian Republic (50122) Call for papers SUMMARY In the last four decades, scholars have begun to go beyond the traditional perspective of linguistic and literary studies, and to consider the translations as cultural practices …
These remarks are prompted by a recent short interview in The Guardian with Sam Taylor, a novelist and translator of 30 books from French into English. He comments ‘Ultimately, it’s a question of taste. My personal ideal for a translation is one that makes the reader forget they are reading a translation at all, but …
Jo VanEvery, The Scholarly Writing Process (A Short Guide) Published November 1, 2016. Revised edition 2018 Ebook: ISBN 978-1-912040-72-8 Paperback (178 x 111 mm): ISBN 978-1-912040-00-1 Getting stuck is a normal part of the writing process, even for experienced writers. My aim in publishing this Short Guide is to help you generate new writing projects, …
Now I have a frankly all too short period of long service leave, I am taking the opportunity to update the design and content on my blogs and re-organise what goes where. The net has changed a lot over the years since I first put my Foucault site online in 1997! I have retitled this …
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LSE Impact Blog – “Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity” I’m not sure by the notion of ‘productivity’, but there is some good advice here. Here are the headlines: They “time-block” their writing in advance They set themselves artificial deadlines They deliberately seek “flow” (but don’t push themselves…
“A relationship of violence acts upon a body or upon things; it forces, it bends, it breaks on the wheel, it destroys, or it closes the door on all possibilities. Its opposite pole can only be passivity, and if it comes up against any resistance, it has no other option but to try to minimize …
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Why do so many academics publish in unreadable outlets? I don’t mean the prose style is unreadable (though it might be), but I’m thinking of the outlets they chose to publish in. Obviously, I recognise that the ‘gold standard’ for many academics is the refereed journal article, and the majority of…
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