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He has some gorgeous merchandise, fabulous soviet t-shirt, and tinkerly & steampunk comics, too.
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17 July 2011
SSSSteam Punk
Guests
Katherine Wilson
Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Darryl Cordell
Sculptor and set designer for Circus Oz
Laurel Frank
Costume designer, Circus Oz
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Whistleblowing scientists
A simply tremendous program was on ABC Radio National’s ‘All In The Mind’ on Saturday, featuring the “degradation rituals” dissident scientists face when they come up with results that challenge the order of things. The program, with guests Prof Brian Martin and Dr Sandrine Thérèse, both science sociologists, features examples of whistleblowing fallouts that include the treatment of a scientist who reported adverse cellular responses to mobile phone emissions. One of the most interesting features of Martin’s and Thérèse’s analysis is that it codifies peer and public attacks on dissident scientists in anthropological terms (such as “degradation ritual”). This makes it easier to tease out what is happening when, for example, methodology that is the gold standard, or entirely uncontroversial, becomes ‘faulty methodology’ in the cases of ‘controversial science’ (such as mobile phone technology).
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2010/2901944.htm
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Steampunk extract
An edited extract of my essay on steampunk technofetishism in the forthcoming Meanjin was published in today’s Age. It was also published here in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Today’s Age
Wilson, Katherine, ‘Playing us for suckers’, The Age, A2 supplement, p. 16.
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Windschuttle: the musical
My Meanjin essay on the Quadrant hoax is here.
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- Eureka Street: Seeking Justice for Jack
- Good Weekend feature on slime mould
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- Guns, Guards & Gates: adventures in national security
- Junk science in Overland
- New Matilda articles
- Online Opinion: is the terror threat overblown?
- Review of Kate Figes in The Age
- Steampunk article in Sydney Morning Herald
- Stepford Wives, Howard style
- The Insecurity Complex in New Matilda
- The People versus Victoria: the GM food debate
- Thought-crime and punishment: the story of Abdullah Merhi
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