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Bodily oddities, creeping curiosities, fractals, freedom.

Existence is not enough – otherwise, why the need for and persistence of existentialism. Peace is not enough – otherwise why the ongoing violence and war that peppers our lives…

I’m crushed by the present absence of the arts from my life as the arts give me both a way to be in public but without the need to socialise, as well as a place in public to socialise. Without the arts, and this avenue to exercise my beingness and humanity, I’m left feeling, well, a little less alive…

Can you get paid for it? Sure. Exercise your art however you choose. But don’t be surprised if it ceases to be art, as then it will be something else.

Earlier this year, determined to better understand economics, I borrowed Mariana Mazzucato’s new book The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy from my local library. The day before…

Were AAP to close, there will be critical job losses, a further reduction in first hand reporting, and greater concentration of media ownership. I already feel part of a public with dwindling hopes that we can claim to be suitably informed…

At an impact investment session at LaunchVic/Stone & Chalk, and I wonder how much impact washing occurs in the Australian sector and what measures might help expose or prevent it…

Thinking about 21st century qualities not yet replicable by a robot so I can better make my case for employment long into the twilight of late capitalism…

Go somewhere between them all: connection and communication, high and low brow, pushing boundaries and holding your ground, create space for inquiry, emotion and expression, the subliminal and substantial…

I’ve long believed that to catalyse impact in Australia we need to make the alternative to the status quo more attractive, as only then can we subvert politics and a lethargic political leadership…

My approach to technology has always been to remember that behind the screens, clicks and carts are people. And people connect the same way they always have, by communicating. And in communicating, we’ve created communities…

Since reading Amia Srinivisan’s essay, ‘Stop the Robot Apocolypse’ in the London Review of Books over four years ago, I’ve read widely on the subject of effective altruism and impact investment as alternatives…

Working on a project by project basis gives great insight to people management and exposes you to a wide variety of hard and fast lessons, as a microcosm might…

I had to fight for art in a family where science and maths reign supreme. I won for the very reason that I employed a philosophical framework that demonstrates you need not choose…

There’s no organ like the eye to affect our own otherness. Lacan uses the example: ‘I see myself seeing myself’ to reinforce its distancing effect. In comparison ‘I warm myself warming myself’ is corporal, whole, one…

Culture is of course an industry and collective art form, as well as reflection and antagonist of the zeitgeist. Over time, repetition of cultural acts contributes to tradition and reinforces group identity.

You will never regret the time spent getting the brief right. If you get given a sloppy brief demand better, but be prepared to ‘manage up’ to get the brief you want…

I guess there are parts of my story that have been predictable. I’ve been at times engaged, serious, militant, disillusioned, bored, ‘give a fuck? As if I give a fuck!’

A recent episode of the Radio National Philosopher’s Zone podcast explored public policy and philosophy through ‘The Importance of Public Things’, with Professor Bonnie Honig making the argument that…