Archive for March, 2006

writing workshop

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

A little publicized event took place in Singapore last week when a small group of aspiring writers got together to organise a writing workshop led by Jane Camens.
As a workshop, there was little in the way of theory or analysis; the majority of the two days was spent on short 15-20 minute exercises that tested [...]

Higher learning

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

The Wrong side of capitalism website highlighted a course sadly indicative of the state (”of disrepute?”) of higher (”than what?”) learning (see also, more recently, University Diaries).
Alas, such content is not uncommon. Warwick University’s Sociology department is now an identity theory-ridden morass of statistical analysis, gender, gender, gender and rational choice study. What follows is [...]

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