N Fd C Third Meeting
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.