Craig Hodges's "Authenticity & Experimental Living" list.
About this list: Various works referenced whilst researching a book on travel and the concept of living an authentic life in our modern/post-modern technocratic world. Includes: Social criticism & commentary, philosophy, Buddhism and select academic and popular works.
List created 2010-10-16 14:31:27
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Notes: Potter derides the concept of a search for authenticity particularly since he has observed the successful commercialisation of this whole notion. He points to cliches, branding and fake-authentic constructs.
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Notes: Posthumanism Cyborgs Technology Disembodiment Cited Endnote
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Notes: "Existentialists generally say that, if we are living and philosophising as human beings in a genuine or authentic way, then we will be courageous, unique, venturesome, honest, and passionate in our approach to life and its many perplexing issues. We will be constantly returning to, focussing on, and facing squarely up to, all these rather unsettling or challenging doubts and questions, not trying to escape and evade them by immersing ourselves in everyday busyness, practical affairs, media entertainments and other such superficial distractions." pp. 71-72
less"Existentialists generally say that, if we are living and philosophising as human beings in a genuine or authentic way, then we will be courageous, unique, venturesome, honest, and passionate in our approach to life and its many perplexing issues. We will be constantly returning to, focussing o... more
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Notes: The privilege of experience is not really elitist, Adorno suggests, because it comes with a moral obligation. Those who, despite the constraints of prevailing norms, are capable of experience that gives rise to social critique have a moral obligation to express what most people cannot see. Expressing this is a “representative” effort in which some speak on behalf of many. p. 97, (Zuidervaart 2007) In other words, thanks to the way society is structured, certain individuals are capable of an experience that challenges this structure and its distorting of other people’s experience. P. 98, (Zuidervaart 2007) Cited Endnote
lessThe privilege of experience is not really elitist, Adorno suggests, because it comes with a moral obligation. Those who, despite the constraints of prevailing norms, are capable of experience that gives rise to social critique have a moral obligation to express what most people cannot see. Expressin... more
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Notes: Cited Personal Library
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Notes: Cited Personal Library
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Notes: Cited Personal Library
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Notes: Cited "Experiments in living" phrase used by Mill
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Notes: Orwell Yet to read
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Notes: To Read Interested in concept here of Surin's "Nomad Politics"
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Notes: Yet to read Interested here in the focus on voices of "struggles and movements for creative transformations"
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Notes: Yet to read Damon's concept of "patient, sensitive and thoughtful attention to the world" is appealing.
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Notes: See section on "Authenticity in an age of satire"
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Notes: Yet to read Historicism
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Notes: Yet to read Free vs. Automatons
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Notes: Philosophy and the concept of Human Freedom
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Notes: Quote: "in seeking a theory that applies to psychological issues of free agency and free will as well as to political issues in the theory of the free state and the free constitution"
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Notes: Yet to read A unique examination of our culture. Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying.
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Notes: Yet to read Interested in the section on: The Chameleon Personality of Our Time & The Roots of the Chameleon Complex
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Notes: From the summary: "An incisive commentary on the evolution of a peculiarly American sensibility, the pervasive co-optation that defines today's hip commercial culture."
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Notes: Dated but still relevant framework of analysis
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Notes: Quote from the Conclusion:"We must never be overconfident in our ways, and should always explore several avenues of the 'good life'. Indeed, critical thinking is paramount in a world drenched in propaganda and false 'truths'. It is hard when we are lead by our leaders, bosses, peers, and supports to conform to certain established ways, but if we don't question, these is no purpose to our lives."
lessQuote from the Conclusion:"We must never be overconfident in our ways, and should always explore several avenues of the 'good life'. Indeed, critical thinking is paramount in a world drenched in propaganda and false 'truths'. It is hard when we are lead by our leaders, bosses, peers, and suppor... more
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Notes: The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism.
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Notes: The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism.
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Notes: Yet to read See section on: Innovation as catalytic ingredient
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Notes: Yet to read See section on: Innovation as catalytic ingredient
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Notes: Issue: Work Life Balance - achievability
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Notes: Concept of interest "Economic Man"
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Notes: Journeys through Aboriginal Australia
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Notes: A contemporary look at Black/White relationships in Australia
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Notes: Nicholas Rothwell's excellent accounts of his travels/experiences in northern Australia.
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Notes: Rothwell's travels
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Notes: Conditions and issues concerning Indigenous Australia
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Notes: Conditions and issues concerning Indigenous Australia
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Notes: Important book read during my 3 month stay in Arnhem Land July-Oct 2009. Richard is a leading whitefella authority on Yolngu culture.
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Notes: Author explores some of Americas great forests.
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Notes: Australian travel - a tad alternative.
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Notes: From the bookjacket: "A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur."
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Notes: A travelogue about cycling around Australia.
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Notes: Motorhome travel around Australia
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Notes: Long distance motorcycling around Australia
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Notes: motorcycle touring around Australia.
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Notes: Motorcycle touring - Australia.
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Notes: Photographic Travelogue
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Notes: Photographic Travelogue
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Notes: Map - Area visited in Sept 2009.
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Notes: Subject: Montaigne, Michel de, - 1533-1592 - Views on travel. | Descartes, Rene, - 1596-1650 - Views on travel. | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, - 1712-1778 - Views on travel. | Philosophy, French - 16th century. | Philosophy, French - 17th century. | Philosophy, French - 18th century. | Travel.
lessSubject: Montaigne, Michel de, - 1533-1592 - Views on travel. | Descartes, Rene, - 1596-1650 - Views on travel. | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, - 1712-1778 - Views on travel. | Philosophy, French - 16th century. | Philosophy, French - 17th century. | Philosophy, French - 18th century. | Travel... more
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Notes: Popular Non-Fiction account looking at the subject of travel. Marrying philosophy, social commentary and travel observations.
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Notes: Popular Travelogue
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Notes: Reference the concept of Derrida's "White Mythology" and commentary of 'metaphor' p. 241
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Notes: Reference the concept of Derrida's "White Mythology" and commentary of 'metaphor' p. 241
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Notes: The "Other" in travel writing.
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Notes: Reference concept of 'Metaphor' and 'cultural criticism'
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Notes: Movement, Metaphor, Psychology of Movement & Place, Culture & Geography
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Notes: Metaphor & Tropes in cross-cultural studies.
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Notes: See: The self wandering between cultural localization and globalization / Susantha Goonatilake.
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Notes: See the notion of 'Creative Democracy' and its cultivation
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Notes: Photographic, Australian Pictorial
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Notes: Issue when visiting many remote communities, especially Fitzroy Crossing WA
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Notes: If interested in Stanner, be sure to also see AIATSIS Online Library Catalogue - Mura. http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/muraread.html
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Notes: Research in detail.
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Notes: Equality, Endnote - cited
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Notes: Article "Dividing the Territory" by Victoria Laurie in the October 2010 Issue. Endnote - cited
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Notes: Interesting journal
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Notes: Cited by James Oliver in The Selfish Capitalist
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Notes: In the context of Social Psychology
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Notes: Best to study both sides of the argument.
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Notes: Concept of individuals with personalities that are "Other-directed"
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Notes: See chapter 1: Fake
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Notes: See chapter 1: Land of the Fake
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Notes: Indigenous Affairs - The Gap they are trying so hard to close...
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Notes: Lecture delivered at Armidale Town Hall - Sept 2004
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Notes: Includes NT Intervention
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Notes: Concept of self-deception
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Notes: ACT politician. Smacks of Lindsay Tanner-like writing inspired by Putnam and Social Capital theorists.
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Notes: Endnote Cited Photocopied rel. chapters, notes & bibliography.
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Notes: Endnote Cited Photocopied rel. chapters, notes & bibliography.
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Notes: Health - effects of technological innovations.
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Notes: Digital Identity formation
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Notes: GFC - from inside the banking world elite (New Zealand perspective)
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Notes: Consumption (economics) requires reassessment and critique
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Notes: Hyman Minsky - additional reading on financial crises. GFC commentary source.
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Notes: Hyman Minsky and Keyensian economics
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Notes: Human Rights - Australian context.
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Notes: Corporate influence on individuals, their identities and behaviour.
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Notes: Corporations - morality. Corporate governance. Public Relations exercises. See Rushkoff's book Life Inc.
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Notes: Reshaping economic paradigm and democratic practice. Notably contribution on the notion of "the commons', scope of thesis includes Marxist critique among others.
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Notes: Past references. Endnote - cited.
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Notes: Social Capital discussed in an Australian context in relation to connection to "market/economic outcomes"
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Notes: Post-GFC surmising...
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Notes: Continuation of the Work/Life balance debate.
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Notes: UN perspective on poverty and inequality
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Notes: Individual's complex form of 'agency' over brain workings, thinking, and so forth. Would it be so hard to "ideologically re-wire oneself" to pursue post-materialist goals & values, versus modern materialist ones? given this insight?
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Notes: Not so much pushing "downshifting" or voluntary simplicity, as much as a self-help to get you back on the financial/economic treadmill in bettershape than before.
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Notes: GFC & United State Political commentary. Stinging.
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Notes: Look into Australia's Future Fund.
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Notes: How this book gets through the NLA Collection Development Policy and Zizek and Badiou's jointly penned title "Philosophy in the present" has me totally miffed??????
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Notes: Koppell's broad concept of Global Governance & Beck's concept of "Glocal" needs some exploring.
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Notes: Interesting chapters: # The rise and pause of the Keynesian welfare state # The neoliberal regime and the return of the market
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Notes: Interesting chapters: # Beyond the market-state dichotomy # The rise and pause of the Keynesian welfare state # The neoliberal regime and the return of the market # The financial crisis and the great recession
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Notes: A focus on emerging conflicts between "national interests"? I am glad "war" isn't in the subject list.
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Notes: Endnote Cited Ref. chapter: Identification, surveillance and democracy by David Lyon.
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Notes: GFC - The blame game. List of "suspects" identitied. Endnote
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Notes: City life, community, empowerment, self-determining, social fabric Endnote
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Notes: Indigenous engagement - Landcare. Also see Nailsma's Ranger program operating across Northern Australia.
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Notes: Monolithic Australian Narrative?
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Notes: Needs more bibliographic details!
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Notes: New Economics, see also comment about Autistic Economics
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Notes: Rights to The City (inspired by French intellectual Henri Lefebvre's 1968 book of the same title)
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Notes: David Harvey saw this moment coming. A legendary scholar and critic of capitalism, he has been warning of problems for decades.
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Notes: A case for Free Markets, as of 2007...
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Notes: Advertising & the representation of the "other", women etc
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Notes: Centrality of Personality. Endnote. See in relation to consumerism, materialism, Fromm's critique and Riesman's "Other-Directedness"
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Notes: Kurt Lewin - influential 20th century Social Psychologist.
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Notes: "Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me." -Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
less"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is ... more
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Notes: Classic Marxist critique orign. an early 1980s publication.
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Notes: improbable events - popular non-fiction - cited by Alex Callinicos. See also Talebs' articles in the Financial Times.
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Notes: History of Economics... Economics as Ideology
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Notes: Classic economic study and social commentary
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Notes: Quality of life, working conditions. Working lives of ordinary Americans, rather than "bottom line" results.
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Notes: Australian Economic conditions...
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Notes: Up there with Layard's book of the same title from 2005.
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Notes: Regional Australia - GFC impact
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Notes: Melbourne - 2009 - research for backstory
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