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		<title>Middlesex Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated 11 June &#8211; just to say that my ill-at-ease reaction to the partial resolution to the Middlesex situation has been posted in the comments over at Perverse Egalitarianism.
Just signal boosting the bizarre story most of you will have already seen on other theory blogs, about the inexplicable decision by Middlesex University to cut its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email (mis)Management</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/email-mismanagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just spent the better part of the last three days answering student emails.  I&#8217;m responsible for some large courses this term and, due to the last-minute finalisation of my teaching schedule, my name is also attached in various ways to courses I&#8217;m not teaching, so I&#8217;m the proximate target for several hundred students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Completion Seminar: Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So just a quick update that yesterday afternoon I fulfilled the requirement of holding a &#8220;successful&#8221; Thesis Completion Seminar &#8211; basically, a one-hour presentation and Q&#038;A session which is a hurdle requirement in order to become eligible to submit the thesis for examination.  So: hurdle jumped.
I wanted to thank all the folks who came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deformation</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/deformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I am now a quasi-official (or, at least, honorary) grown-up at my university, I need a staff ID card.  To obtain the card, I had to fill out a form and send it off for official approval.  Once official approval was granted, I was told to present myself to security, who would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abolishing the Quant/Qual (and Other) Distinctions</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/abolishing-the-quantqual-and-other-distinctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/abolishing-the-quantqual-and-other-distinctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today was the formal logic lecture in our newly designed social research course.  In the spirit of the best pedagogical traditions we established in our quantitative methods course last year, my esteemed colleague L Magee set out to instil in our students the virtues of rigour and precision with a thorough discussion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolve and Resignation</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/resolve-and-resignation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/resolve-and-resignation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mikhail Emelianov from Perverse Egalitarianism has a new post up on New (Academic) Year Resolutions &#8211; a post which he has spun mimetically, asking for responses from a few of us who are known to lurk around those parts&#8230;  Mikhail resolves to (or wishes for the ability to?) include more complex material in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administered Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/administered-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/administered-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have this university online environment we are compelled to use for classes.  
Now, we got burned by this environment in the quantitative methods course a couple of years ago, in a way that caused huge amounts of additional work, primarily for L Magee.  And so we have been much more cautious in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Philosophy Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/that-philosophy-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/that-philosophy-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone just wandered past as I sat in my coffee shop, laptop at the ready, works by Derrida and Spivak scattered around.  They did a quick double-take, walked over to my table, and burst out:  &#8220;Hey!  Are you that philosophy woman?&#8221;
Is there supposed to be only one of us?
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		<title>Blind Reviewer Voodoo Dolls</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/blind-reviewer-voodoo-dolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/blind-reviewer-voodoo-dolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t admit a certain attraction to wicked anomie&#8217;s secret strategy for navigating the blind review process: blind reviewer voodoo dolls.  Treat them well, while manuscripts are pending review.  Afterwards.  Well&#8230;
1. Make a paper pattern in the shape of your blind reviewer.
2. Cut out the pattern and pin to a folded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Anywhere, Now</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/not-anywhere-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/not-anywhere-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son&#8217;s choice for bedtime reading last night:  the final clause of every right-hand page in Derrida&#8217;s Specters of Marx.  (I know.  I know.  But I honestly don&#8217;t encourage this.  He just wants to read my books&#8230;  If it helps, we also read a picture book after&#8230;)  So [...]]]></description>
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