In the end, both novels demonstrate that an encounter with the vegetal only occurs when plants are either ascribed with a use-value or become obstructive. This notion reveals via process of elimination the ways in which plants speak but are not heard. Whereas The Day of the Triffids portrays...
The encounter with the hospital complex (e.g. the building, the admission desk, the elevator, and the kiosk) and its associated personnel is another dimension of ‘hospital sickness’ that makes people feel unwell (nanshou), even ill. This is an acquired sickness that may exacerbate health ...
Our final suggestion is to give all managers, especially those in the business divisions, a notional “bureaucracy whistle.” Like the famous and on cord, the emergency cable once strung above Toyota production lines that brought managers and engineers running to pinpoint...
Thus the white-hotragein the Microsoft “I want to speak to the manager!” thread - Duende has now put these .NET developers in a position where they must justify a frankly trivial dollar-cost to the procurement bureaucracy andMicrosoft doesn’t care. “HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE?!?!” I’m...
You might be able to get cheaper clothes here, but I find that in the long run you actually end up spending more, simply because a lot of the clothes fall apart after a matter of weeks or end up getting shredded by your (also inferior) laundry machine. Not to mention brand clothes, ...
To this day, it is seen less as a piece of bureaucracy than as an act of “infamy”; it cuts “a wound that hasn't healed”, according to Stewart Francis, a former chairman of the Rail Passengers’ Council. On the Beeching “wound”, Okehampton's 11 miles of shiny new track are ...
Understand when to fight and when to let something go in order to appease that higher up you just can’t win over right now. Step 3: Do (at least some of) the work yourself One of the biggest culture shocks moving in-house was the level of bureaucracy standing in my way. The ...
s difficult because there’s never a time that’s free of problems. There is never a time which is free of politics. But I think my job still is to try to plant that vision out there and keep pushing toward it and to get people to try to imagine how the future might be and to ...
and you could get to a level of complexity that might be difficult in a film, for instance, because in a film you have no control over time, whereas in a comic you can go backwards and forwards “ In a blur rushed one landmark after another: Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”; Jaime an...
For it is these moments that make yesterday’s storms worth weathering… and fill my tank for whatever energy tomorrow might require. I’m learning to sit with today. Share this: More “And” It often seems that “or” is the preferred conjunction. It is “A” or “B”? Are you happ...