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Marginalia
I will always name my blogs “Perspective”, as I had been doing from the very beginning (version one, 2005-2007; version two, 2008-2010) but this one, I realize, is currently behaving more like the notion of marginalia. However, there are umpteen blogs on wordpress called Marginalia; not that I’d change the…
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Building Bridges From Prototype to Production
Reading “Bauhaus and Mass Production” on the Bauhausian digital platform makes me want to add some of my thoughts on the gap the author identifies as seminal to understanding the legacy of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus was a laboratory for industrial design, but laboratories generate failed experiments as well as…
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Does a chatbot dream of research paradigms?
Weber, J., & Prietl, B. (2022). AI in the age of technoscience: On the rise of data-driven AI and its epistem-ontological foundations. In The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI (pp. 58-73). Routledge. As I engaged with the meta-theoretical foundations of knowledge-making for scaffolding methodological development in my doctoral thesis,…
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Advocating inquiry-led planning of projects (Harrison & Whyte 2026)
Harrison, J., & Whyte, J. (2026). Future-Making in the Front-End of Projects. International Journal of Project Management, 102854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2026.102854 Interestingly, Harrison & Whyte’s (2026) conclusions inspired me to conceptualize and set up a class of blogposts which I am calling ‘Reflexive Reviews’ (see categories in the right-hand sidebar). What naturally caught…
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There is a new lens by which I can see
I was taken by surprise today as I reviewed a couple of links I’d bookmarked to return to after my manuscript revision was complete. In the first, blogged on The Prepaid Economy blog, I suddenly found myself noticing that the work done over the past 20 years on the informal…
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Playgrounds of the mind
They say, in the department, that nobody ever reads the synopsis (also called exegesis or kappa) except the examiners. So I followed the standard template assiduously. And failed spectacularly. Oh, I had original contributions to make, my examiners were convinced, but my presentation of my dissertation research was not only…
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lovingly made by human mind and hands
What do I mean by “lovingly made by human mind and hands”? This is a short note on the tagline in the header of this website. It was written in response to the preponderance of technologies used to generate and disseminate “content” once I realized that not only was I…
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To restore or not to restore?
Some of you may have noticed that this site was down with a terminal error between 21 September 2026 and yesterday, 13 October 2026. Just enough time for it to disappear completely from search results. More than 20 years of blogging went *poof* and erased my legacy online. The link…
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! I’ve spent the day building a blogger’s home website from scratch. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve done this since my first foray into the “blogosphere” as we used to call it back in…