Here’s one that’s got on my nerves a lot recently – there’s no simpler way to express it than the ‘what versus why‘ conflict. 689 more words
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1944: Model City
141 more wordsThe decorative industrial management buildings and exhibition centers in authoritarian countries are much the same as anywhere else. The huge gleaming towers that shoot up everywhere are outward signs of the ingenious planning of international concerns, toward which the unleashed entrepreneurial system (whose monuments are a mass of gloomy houses and business premises in grimy, spiritless cities) was already hastening.
There's a *new* materialism?
At my last meeting, one of my supervisors suggested a book that he thought might inform my methodological chapter (whatever it ultimately gets called!): “Sociology and the New Materialism: Theory, Research, Action” by Fox and Alldred (2016). 2,009 more words
Big Picture, Little Picture Data
My admins have begun to ask good questions that require data to form the answer, and as a result have given me access to vast amounts of data to explore with. 825 more words
Vegetarianism & Communism
Having been both vegetarian & a communist for more then 5 years now I decided to finally write something about the connection between these issues. Does vegetarianism have anything to do with Communism and vice-versa? 1,778 more words
