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📷 Day 16: oof! #mbsept

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📷 Day 15: red #mbsept
The bottlebrush trees at the front of our house are just coming into bloom.

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📷 Day 14| statue #mbsept

Food for thought.

An ancient Greek marble statue of a woman regards a museum sign with a quote from Plato's Republic, which reads: Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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As 9/11 is commemorated again it’s worth reflecting on why some people are wary of US foreign policy. This 9/11 is also the 50th anniversary of the Nixon/Kissinger coup in Chile.
If you think human rights is all ’liberal crap’, as Nixon did, that right there is why we remain wary.

“¡Nunca más!” 💬

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📷 Day 13| glowing #mbsept

Sydney Airport at dusk.

A photograph of the nose of a jet plane parked at an airport gate. In the background, the sun sets in an orange sky behind city apartment blocks.
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📷 Day 12 | panic #mbsept

A graffiti art skull painted on a brick building on a headland, with the ocean in the background.
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📷 Day 11 | retrospect #mbsept

Two workers are pulling down old event posters off a billboard.
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📷 Day 10 | cycle #mbsept

I’d like to put an end to these signs. Bike paths should go on forever! 🚲

A blue and white road sign marks the end of a bicycle path.
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📷 Day 9 | language #mbsept

There are more than 150 of these signs in Wales.

A painted sign on a wall reads: Cofiwch Dryweryn, commemorating the flooding of a Welsh valley community to provide a water supply for England.
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A note on the craft of note-writing

An fairly new article from Brazil caught my eye, on note-writing as an intellectual craft. It highlights the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s note-making process (he put his many linked notes in a Zettelkasten - an index box).

Cruz, Robson Nascimento da Cruz, and Junio Rezende. “Note-writing as an intellectual craft: Niklas Luhmann and academic writing as a process.” Pro-Posições 34 (2023).
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https://www.scielo.br/j/pp/a/L7gmq6W7bvzgn984hSJ94

Abstract: "Despite numerous indications that academic writing is a means toward intellectual discovery and not just a representation of thought, in Brazil, it is seen more as a product of studies and subjects than an integral part of university education. This article presents note-taking, an apparently simple and supposedly archaic activity, as a way through which academic writing is eminently oriented towards constructing an authorial thought. To this end, we discuss recent findings in the historiography of writing that show note-taking as an essential practice in the development of modern intellectuality. We also present an emblematic case, in the 20th century, of the fruitful use of a note-taking system created by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. Finally, we point out that the value of note-taking goes beyond mere historical curiosity, constituting an additional tool for a daily life in which satisfaction and a sense of intellectual development are at the center of academic life."