26/11/2012?

Present: Bec, Jason

For Bec: Gödel Escher Bach - a hotchpotch of unrelated topics but a very successful book, proving (Jason claims) that focus is not essential

Muddle Your Way To Success - (link added later: http://xeny.net/muddle%20your%20way%20to%20success )

Bec Wegener - put in touch?

Homework: What does it mean to say I still think of myself as being single?

Context

Self-esteem (i) security; (ii) people can be simultaneously high and low self-esteem in different areas

Asymmetry in relationships - surprise to Jason

Self-discipline - to AGENDA

Formalisation of friendships & structures available to romantic relationships

Persona: JG lecturer “healthy”, secure

“They could get me in trouble”

Important by-product of the casualisation of the teaching force: “Lecturers can do anything”.

Minutes

• Calcification of doctrine in the union movement

• Muddle your way to success

• Family including siblings

Agenda

• Do we need to organise the NFDC wiki in a careful way, or just keep it as minutes of meetings? I think the latter. We can also make pages on the wider wiki, e.g. Lawful Good.

• EBM, language appropriation and modification; cf. feminism

• Embodiment; cf. “lived experience” — gender studies — “Voltaire’s Bastards”

• Why to believe in an unconscious

• Jason: 2-hour tutorials?

• Plastic

• Roleplayer culture

• Good people

• ICT (but Jason doesn’t want to talk about this one — just depressing)

• Change of perspective — ageing — parenting

• Context and communication (contextualising yourself to others)

• Email addresses: is this the way things are, or is this me getting older and wiser (or just older and sadder / more cynical / more guarded)?

• Hair (cont’d)

• Parentheses and removing ambiguity

• The function of punctuation, and which (if any) we are missing in the current Roman style of writing, and whether they are just primitive emoticons (or something like)

• RPG character sheets / dimensions as a tool for thinking (e.g. realising that someone fits the “Chaotic Neutral” category and that being helpful in understanding their actions). See also a sample character sheet from a game I really loved playing, Mage: http://www.silverspiral.org/images/stories/mage%20character%20sheet%20%28bitmap%29.png

• A link for RPGs as tools for thinking: Lawful good (etc) examples from pop culture http://files-cdn.formspring.me/photos/20120622/n4fe5249d38689.jpg

• Agribusiness including agricultural chemistry

• Having kids, and overpopulation

• Dimensions and categories of shyness

• Formalisation of friendship relationships

• Why is it important to swear?

• Getting Jason a job, cont’d: Let’s draft your Teaching Philosophy Statement (a good start for applying for any sort of teaching award in higher ed). Jason wants to put this off until next semester, but we’ll see.