Sig Sønnesyn
@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Christianity, a sheep farmer in De Wulf's clothing, aspiring well-meaning idiot. Lonergan, Burrell, MacIntyre, McCabe. Waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – Alasdair MacIntyre.
Then again, I’d much rather live by Auden’s Hermetic Decalogue:
‘Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms’ etc.
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‘Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms’ etc.
3/3
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Then again, I’d much rather live by Auden’s Hermetic Decalogue:
‘Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms’ etc.
3/3
‘Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms’ etc.
3/3
or has economist augury improved since then? The marketisation of HE is an unmitigated disaster in all kinds of ways, but it would somehow seem even more meaningless if all we are doing is to subordinate scholarship and pedagogy to McKinsey horoscopes. 2/3
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
or has economist augury improved since then? The marketisation of HE is an unmitigated disaster in all kinds of ways, but it would somehow seem even more meaningless if all we are doing is to subordinate scholarship and pedagogy to McKinsey horoscopes. 2/3
Please enlighten me: how reliable is the 'market research' in subservience to which we (UKHE) are increasingly made to hollow out or ‘streamline’ our study programmes? Is market prognostication still relying on the methodology that, say, spectacularly failed to predict the 2008 recession, 1/3
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Please enlighten me: how reliable is the 'market research' in subservience to which we (UKHE) are increasingly made to hollow out or ‘streamline’ our study programmes? Is market prognostication still relying on the methodology that, say, spectacularly failed to predict the 2008 recession, 1/3
I genuinely loved that. And even if I haven't got any rain to watch right now (see photo from earlier today), I found your poem to be #RelatableContent . Thanks for sharing!
December 9, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I genuinely loved that. And even if I haven't got any rain to watch right now (see photo from earlier today), I found your poem to be #RelatableContent . Thanks for sharing!
I guess it's appropriate to do one of those introduction posts? It me:
November 27, 2024 at 11:08 AM
I guess it's appropriate to do one of those introduction posts? It me: