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Le Flâneur Politique

The concept of le flâneur politique becomes my "vehicle for the examination of the conditions of modernity". A blog about my political science research, teaching, and community engagement, and my philosophical, pedagogical, and literary musings.

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Modern Anchorites; or, How we displace reality because of the Fuckeaucracy

08 November 2019

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Reflections on CeBIT 2019; or, WTF is an electric H-D good for?

31 October 2019

Cebit Future of Work Technological Disruption Technology in the Workplace

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The More Wisdom than Wit of Abraham Lincoln

02 January 2019

Abraham Lincoln Bob Dylan Book Notes Dover Thrift Edition George G. Meade Grace Bedell Hot Letter James Beasley Percy Lydia Bixby Mark Twain Mathew Brady Poor Richard Robert E. Lee Saving Private Ryan

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Appreciating Ted Hughes

26 December 2018

Alfred Lord Tennyson Ars Poetica Art of Poetry Bahrain Book Notes Ceremonial Burial Lupercalia Paris Review Petrarch Poet Laureate Poetry Poetry Notes Sylvia Plath Symbolism Ted Hughes

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Tennyson: Art imitates life and proves me wrong yet again

26 December 2018

Alfred Lord Tennyson Book Notes Damscene Moment Ernest Hemingway Evelyn Waugh Harodl Bloom Poetry Poetry Notes Stoicism Sunflower T.S. Eliot Tennyson

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On Love: Turgenev Style

24 December 2018

Book Notes Dirk Bogarde Dostoevsky Ernest Hemingway Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Mumu Pauline Viardot Russian Literature Saudade Short Stories Thomas Mann Virginia Woolf

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The Futility of Buying Life to Escape Death

09 December 2018

Albert Camus Amor Fati Book Notes Creative Writing Death Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Francisco Goya Graham Greene Metro Goldwyn Mayer Sir Anthony Hopkins Stoicism

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To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Masterpiece

06 December 2018

Bloomsbury Group Book Notes Cornwall Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Godrevy Lighthouse Max Perkins Modernism T.S. Eliot Virginia Woolf

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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land": Pound for Pound

04 December 2018

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Evelyn Waugh's exploration of cause and effect: Unto dust shalt thou return

02 December 2018

Amor Fati Anatole Boryard Book Notes Daily Stoic Downton Abbey Evelyn Waugh F. Scott Fitzgerald Friedrich Nietzsche Genesis Mad Men Marcus Aurelius New York Times Stoicism T.S. Eliot The Waste Land

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Dr Michael de Percy: Dr Michael de Percy is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canberra, Academic Fellow of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

The Imitation of Christ

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

Politics and the English Language

The Stoic Philosophy; Conway Memorial Lecture Delivered at South Place Institute on March 16, 1915

The Art of Happiness

Culture and Anarchy

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change

The Consolations of Philosophy

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

To the Letter: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and How to Get It Back

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