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WE WOULD PREFER NOT TO – ON NOT WORKING
Bartleby lives! Herman Melville might be best known for his extremely big book about an extremely big whale, but it’s his 1853 short...

keiran goddard
Nov 4, 20227 min read
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Searching for a virus on YouTube.
Like so many other people, I’ve been quite unwell recently. Not in that slightly intangible living like this is making me unwell kind of...

keiran goddard
Mar 20, 20205 min read
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Yeah, yeah but what does it mean in practice?! ... on hope, preservation and the climate emergency
A couple of months ago, I gave a talk in which I suggested there might be some utility in turning our focus away from ‘fixing’ the...

keiran goddard
Sep 10, 20193 min read
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8 minutes on the climate crisis-July 2019
Thank you for inviting me here this evening. I’d like to start with an observation. This is the third time in the last six months that I...

keiran goddard
Aug 1, 20194 min read
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AFFECTIVE CONSENSUS: UBI, GILETS JAUNES AND THE POWER OF THE SYMBOLIC
Last week, I left London and went home to visit my family in the West Midlands. In conversation with my (disabled, angry, proud,...

keiran goddard
Feb 21, 20195 min read
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FOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ‘POVERTY NARRATIVE’
Rethinking Poverty argues that the ‘narrative around poverty is broken’ … and, assuming we want our social narratives to render...

keiran goddard
Feb 21, 20194 min read
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TEN WAYS TO MAKE UBI A RADICAL DEMAND
It has been said that universal basic income (UBI) is an idea in search of an ideology. In many ways, that’s a fair enough claim; when a...

keiran goddard
Feb 21, 20196 min read
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