exile

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“… live your lives as strangers here …” 1 Pet. 1:17

“The exile therefore lives in a median state, neither completely at one with the new setting nor fully disencumbered of the old”

“For the intellectual an exilic displacement means being liberated from the usual career, in which ‘doing well’ and following in time-honoured footsteps are the main milestones. Exile means that you are always going to be marginal, and that what you do as an intellectual has to be made up because you cannot follow a prescribed path… If you can experience that fate not as deprivation, … but as a sort of freedom … that is a unique pleasure.”

“The exilic intellectual does not respond to the logic of convention but to the audacity of daring, and to representing change, to moving on, not standing still.”

Edward Said in “Representations of the Intellectual”

[If you are uncomfortable with 'intellectual' (for instance, if you're English:) feel free to change it to artist, scientist, blog-writer, person...]

Read more | Comments (0) | April 18th, 2006

Biennial posters

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Read more | Comments (0) | April 14th, 2006

Reimagining science

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Way back near the start of this blog I added some thoughts on science and Christianity. I never really took these further. Mainly because they never seemed to fit in. So, I’ve decided to create a breakaway blog, reimagining science, to create some space for that train of thought.

I know what you’re thinking: you’ve haven’t managed to post anything here in the last six months and you’re creating a second one?! You’re right, but you have to try, don’t you?

“It’s better to do something badly than watch someone else do it well.” as boogle recently informed me.

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Read more | Comments (0) | April 10th, 2006