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The End of Class
I have a sneaking regard for AA Gill. Of course, he is rather too fond of having his photograph taken. He is rather too fond of wearing shades. He is also a journalist. But all these minor foibles can be set aside ...
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Ian Curtis at the Kitchen Sink
ER The Emotional Rubric Part Nine. Ian Curtis at the Kitchen Sink. Watching 'Control' http://momentum.control.substance001.com/ for the first time at the weekend, I was surprised to find myself thinking of how well the film fits in the British tradition of 'kitchen sink' drama ...
Other labels: transformation, technology, social-networks, manchester, social-class, society, ian_curtis, control ...
Gordon of the Authentic and Small
Guaranteed Neuron Ignition Effects: Track Three. There is a line in one of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where the protagonist proclaims, "All great food comes from a small kitchen." This gem of an insight serves as a preface for me to argue that society ...
Other labels: gnie, social-class, small_teams, gordon_ramsay, kitchen_nightmares, the_apprentice, social_mobility, kinsale ...
Perhaps, Maybe and If.
Finally, concluding 'An Ethnographer in Paradise', a Politics of SenseMaking: a Strategy for a Northern City. Perhaps good strategy always stems from a good emotional sense of the world. Maybe we have learned a lot about limits. Maybe a lot of damage ...
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France and Technology Part 1
Another Part of An Ethnographer In Paradise I am on the beach at Eze Sur Mer. The day is typically idyllic. Perfect light.  If I am honest, though, I might sometimes question the idyll. It's hot, very hot. Locals ...
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France and Technology Part 2
Another Part of an Ethnographer in Paradise. There is a saying in French, "Pas besoin d'avoir fait Polytechnique pour comprendre ça". It is not easily translated into English. This is not because of any linguistic difficulty but because of the cultural context to which the noun "polytechnique" must be applied ...
Other labels: ethnographer, paradise, garlicchewingrascals, will_hopper, polytechnic, the_puritan_gift, david_howard, france ...
Little Wilson and Big Technology
Another Stubborn Part of An Ethnographer in Paradise.  To live in the West in the late twentieth and early twentyfirst century is an extraordinary gift of fortune. Though we like to complain, we would not swap our health and wealth prospects for those ...
Other labels: paradise, celebrity, society, social-class, anthonywilson, anthonyburgess, devolution, manchester
Celebrity And Society
nbsp; The First Part of 'An Ethnographer in Paradise' On the beach at EzeSurMer: Larry Ellison's yacht 'The Rising Sun' is moored out in the bay. Behind us are the houses of  Bono and The Edge of U2. Effectively, they share the same grounds. Bono's is the more forward ...
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The Problem With Poverty
nbsp; An Introduction To A SocialNetwork Approach to SocialClass. (Another Part of 'An Ethnographer in Paradise.') When I was a kid, other neighbourhood kids would frequently make it over to our house. Sunday evenings were the best. We had a large ...
Other labels: ethnographer, paradise, poverty, social-class, family, extended-family, nuclear-family, social-networks
Rethinking The Concept of Class
Welcome to my new blogsite. Previously, I have developed an MBA blogsite http://mbsmis2007.blogspot.com for my work at Manchester Business School. In the fullness of time, some of this material will be linked in to this site.  Today, I am on holiday in Eze ...
Other labels: ethnographer, public, paradise, sector
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