Aileen
I tend to think in pictures, often when I’m listening to a seminar or reading a journal article or planning a piece of writing, I take my notes in cartoon form, drawing little pictures, arrows, cartoon like headings. These presentations do the same, very effectively. It makes me think perhaps it’s time to […]
Fringe Thoughts
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Category Archives: time
Doodling about the Crisis of capitalism & Time Perspectives and singing about Marx
The Other Economic Crash and Working Time
In this blog, I have been noting how the economic crash is affecting working time. National governments have proposed increases in working hours as a way of escaping recessions. These proposals have been either supported (Ireland) or opposed (Denmark) by the unions. Private companies are […]
What’s in an hour
A friend of mine used to work for Microsoft in Denmark. She was offered the opportunity to re-locate to the mothership in Seattle. While the challenge of a change was tempting, the miserable annual leave on offer in the US was not. In Denmark, there […]
Who is afraid of Heidegger?
Aileen
I am, and this little animation explains why.
However I’ve been easing my fear by listening (while gardening) to this great lecture course by Hubert L. Dreyfus on Being and Time. This is just about as far as you can get from a power-point presentation, I just love his rambling, slightly […]
The Passage of Time
Aileen
After Christmas Ireland experienced what is known popularly as “The Big Freeze”. Unused to temperatures dropping below zero for extended periods, the countries transport system ground to a halt. We didn’t have enough snow ploughs or grit. My flatmates and I were supposed to flying to the sunny Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. […]
Who is we paleface?
“It’s just another manic Monday
Wish it were Sunday
That’s my fun day
My I don’t have to run day
It’s just another manic Monday”
(The Bangles)
Overtime payments are given to those for whom Sunday is not a fun-day, that is in recognition of unsocial hours worked, hours out of sync with the rest of society. Attacking their use in […]
Working Eight to Eight
Aileen
It’s Budget Day here, and I’m finding it difficult to concentrate what with the sense of impending doom. In the weeks leading up to today’s budget the government had been in talks with the representatives of most of the Irish unions on how best to cut public sector pay. Details of what was being […]
A Journey of Un-discovery
Aileen
I came across another mention of working time. Whereas the pilots below were arguing in favour of shorter hours on the basis of health and safety, surgeons in the UK represented by the Royal College of Surgeons in England were using health and safety […]
Bits and bobs
Aileen
1. Over the summer, I was re-reading John Laubs’ article on turning points and youth crime, In his work he uses a life course approach to look at juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice. By way […]
