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I am a Zimbabwe-UK dual citizen, and am committed to supporting Zimbabwe's ongoing development and liberation from neocolonial global structures. Zimbabwe's resources should be developed and used in the interests of its people and not to satisfy the greed of the Global North for primary resources. Scientific research, and the development of national research capability and infrastructure is central to this. In the light of this commitment I find the foolish metric games played out in British academia quite intolerable.
I am a Zimbabwe-UK dual citizen, and am committed to supporting Zimbabwe's ongoing development and liberation from neocolonial global structures. Zimbabwe's resources should be developed and used in the interests of its people and not to satisfy the greed of the Global North for primary resources. Scientific research, and the development of national research capability and infrastructure is central to this. In the light of this commitment I find the foolish metric games played out in British academia quite intolerable.
My fundamental personal commitment is as a Catholic Christian. Within the Catholic church I am a lay member of the Dominican Family in the lone lay fraternity of the English Province.
My fundamental personal commitment is as a Catholic Christian. Within the Catholic church I am a lay member of the Dominican Family in the lone lay fraternity of the English Province.
The Gospel of Christ is good news for the poor, and I share the central commitments of liberation theology. In the words of Herbert McCabe O.P. :
“Life in Christ…is a seeking into the meaning of human behaviour which involves a constant reaching out beyond the values of the world. Sin consists in ceasing to reach out, refusing to respond to the Father’s summons, and settling for this present world. What makes it possible for us to reach out, to hear and respond to the summons, is that through the resurrection of Christ the future world is already with us as a disruptive force disturbing the order of the world. We are able to some extent to live into the mode of communication that belongs to the future world, the mode we call love or the presence of the Spirit. Of course trying to live in the present world a life in accordance with the future is a dangerous business, as Jesus found out. The christian may expect to be crucified with him.”
Karl Marx saw that the Capitalist system, as well as alienating workers from the products of their labour, promoted a fundamental rift in the relationship between humankind and nature
Karl Marx saw that the Capitalist system, as well as alienating workers from the products of their labour, promoted a fundamental rift in the relationship between humankind and nature
"Capitalist production completely tears asunder the old bond of union which held together agriculture and manufacture in their infancy. But at the same time it creates the material conditions for a higher synthesis in the future, viz., the union of agriculture and industry on the basis of the more perfected forms they have each acquired during their temporary separation. Capitalist production, by collecting the population in great centres, ... disturbs the circulation of matter between man and the soil, i.e., prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer." Capital Vol 1 Ch 15 Section 10 "Modern Industry and Agriculture")
"Capitalist production completely tears asunder the old bond of union which held together agriculture and manufacture in their infancy. But at the same time it creates the material conditions for a higher synthesis in the future, viz., the union of agriculture and industry on the basis of the more perfected forms they have each acquired during their temporary separation. Capitalist production, by collecting the population in great centres, ... disturbs the circulation of matter between man and the soil, i.e., prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer." Capital Vol 1 Ch 15 Section 10 "Modern Industry and Agriculture")
Liberal reformism cannot address the environmental polycrises of our time, any more than it can achieve justice for the workers. Indeed, the attempt to avoid fundamental change in our economic system by carbon trading has served only to commodify the soil, on which the world's poor depend for their livelihood. For more on this see an upcoming chapter Monitoring Soil Change in Language of Soil edited by Anna Krzywoszynska and Anna Tollund and to be published by Bloomsbury.
Liberal reformism cannot address the environmental polycrises of our time, any more than it can achieve justice for the workers. Indeed, the attempt to avoid fundamental change in our economic system by carbon trading has served only to commodify the soil, on which the world's poor depend for their livelihood. For more on this see an upcoming chapter Monitoring Soil Change in Language of Soil edited by Anna Krzywoszynska and Anna Tollund and to be published by Bloomsbury.
From childhood in Zimbabwe I was interested in the natural environment, in the Shona-speaking people and their language and in the history of the San people whose rock art testifies to their presence in a landscape from which they have long been evicted.
From childhood in Zimbabwe I was interested in the natural environment, in the Shona-speaking people and their language and in the history of the San people whose rock art testifies to their presence in a landscape from which they have long been evicted.
I am interested in the philosophy of statistics and of science and how a philosophy of applied science might be developed which centres thought about science in human judgement and action. I think this is an essential development to resist the rise of unthinking application of machine learning and AI in science in general and applied science in particular. Deborah Mayo's work on severe testing is of crucial importance and the work of Bernard Longergan S.J. on Judgement is foundational.
I am interested in the philosophy of statistics and of science and how a philosophy of applied science might be developed which centres thought about science in human judgement and action. I think this is an essential development to resist the rise of unthinking application of machine learning and AI in science in general and applied science in particular. Deborah Mayo's work on severe testing is of crucial importance and the work of Bernard Longergan S.J. on Judgement is foundational.
... poetry is language trying to be bodily experience, as music is bodily experience trying to be language Herbert McCabe O.P.
... poetry is language trying to be bodily experience, as music is bodily experience trying to be language Herbert McCabe O.P.
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