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My ear!
Some pics of me stressing over the results section of my dissertation, and close ups of my ear by my nuts arty housemate :tongue:
On critical psychology, power and marginalisation…
Its all a mess. Lets start again.
There is the idea that things are stable, that they exist outside of our discourses of them and that they can be universally judged and graded. There also exists the concept of post-modernism, where each perspective or theory is given equal validity as a local, communal construction. Final philosophies are shown as the constructions that they are.
Eco living starts here….
I plan on building a sustainable house at some point, but there are also 101 things I can do right now to reduce my effects on the world. Found http://lighterfootstep.com/index.php today, that has an article on “10 first steps”. We already have a council recycling bin (that is too small for five of us, cue […]
Goodbye “bargain demon”
I have always had a thing for buying things on the cheap. They usually turn out to be inferior, or things that I didn’t actually want. I have a pile of cheap speakers. That I have never used. That makes them expensive speakers/ornaments. Bargain Demon is a good way of describing this insecurity fuelled scrimping. […]
I want to build a house.
I drive past these eco houses every week http://www.hockertonhousingproject.org.uk/, and now I am about done at uni I am thinking about where I want to live. With house prices being so high, I really dont want to pay £150k for a dismal semi on a street full of people I will probably hate. So I […]
Existentialism
Having read some existentialist stuff, there argument seems to be “there’s no point, because you die”. Alternatively, if we lived forever, there would still be the same lack of point (for me). Living forever would not make anything any more meaningful for me. So the mortality thing is a red herring. A “point” is not […]