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Critical vs. practical

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Tullia Jack

I’ve just been at the inaugural LUCID Young Researchers Conference along with a host of other young guns all interested in sustainability challenges from both the natural and social sciences and just about everything in-between. Beyond being impressed by the variety of ways … Continue reading →

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Thou shalt be attractive

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tullia Jack

Michael Leunig wrote these 4 words 7 years ago, and they resonate even more today. Becoming bound up by ideal modes of being. Agitating over status, appearance, performance. Hiding beneath narcissistic farces, so shiny and impenetrable, idiosyncratic realities are smothered, vulnerabilities denied… A friend told … Continue reading →

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Slaves to devices

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Tullia Jack

We are as close to telepathy as we’ve ever come. Thanks to mass communication we can call, message, chat, flick, swipe, poke, follow, talk to any number of people. We can let others know what we are thinking. And find … Continue reading →

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All Finns are created equal

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Tullia Jack

Greetings from Helsinki, land of The Moomintrolls, endless light and… hardcore egalitarianism. I’ve had the pleasure of talking to some lovely Finnish people these past few days, and they’ve all conveyed a jubilant sense of equality/incredulous claustrophobia of classed societies. Finns have long … Continue reading →

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Reykjavíking havok

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Tullia Jack
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Big Data is watching

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Tullia Jack

I’ve spent the last two days at a Socialising Big Data workshop at the futuristic IT University Copenhagen. Big Data is one of those trendy all encompassing buzz-words that   refers to the proliferation of data gathered everyday on all … Continue reading →

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Perfection is so…

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Tullia Jack

… much a part of the globalising, accelerating, glossy-media-saturated world we live in. We are bombarded with images of impossibly flawless faces, bodies, homes, food… Celebrity aside, my Facebook stream is incessantly flooded by perfectly smiling friends, going on perfectly exotic holidays, … Continue reading →

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Beyoncé dances nearly naked on beach

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Tullia Jack

I’ve been wanting to post this since December. I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Most of me wants to dismiss it as the music industry sexualising yet another female artist. But it’s one of my top … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour’s new project to facilitate Grass-roots Universalism with the help of 5 handsome white men.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Tullia Jack

Yesterday Bruno Latour, fêted french sociologist, doyen of Actor Network Theory and charming man about Paris, presented his new research project, An Inquiry Into The Modes Of Existence (AIME), to a distinguished gathering of academics at Copenhagen Business School. The collaborative research … Continue reading →

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Rushing: a waste of time?

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Tullia Jack

One of my favourite parts of immersing in Swedish culture is the sauna. Sweating in hot cedar and then dipping in the cold North Sea with the old dames of malmö has become somewhat of a mid-week ritual. One I’m … Continue reading →

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