for W3c validation
Friday Faves is our weekly blog series highlighting a few select pieces from the REG team’s reading lists. You can catch up on past Friday Faves on the archive.
This week, we’re remembering the irreplaceable Natalie Hardwicke and sharing a team-chosen collection of Nat’s more recent tweets that speak to us in some way.
Speaking for all of us this week, Anne says: Remembering Nat and sharing tweets that mean something to me from her… Mostly her engagement with philosophical arguments as she developed her PhD and then her humour always gave you/still gives me a smirk…
Thanks Nat!! Here’s to you!!
Strip yourself of all your performative masks and the social roles you play. What's left? You might be inclined to say nothing, and that would be the point entirely https://t.co/ETg4YlNryk
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 12, 2018
Once upon a time, I was paid a lot of money for being very wrong about the employee-technology relationship. Now I'm paid very little money for getting it right. Life is ironic, but real wealth is knowledge anyway, so come hear my story in Melbourne in September 🙂 #FUSIONConf https://t.co/Ae0C0dLd73
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 10, 2018
I've just discovered that "Finger Yoga" is a thing… What. the. actual. f***. Humans are so weird https://t.co/ARkaVPMLdp
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 8, 2018
I pay, therefore I am… pic.twitter.com/bGVtyQw46c
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 7, 2018
People who talk about trust conveniently never discuss the conundrum of trusting distrust
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 3, 2018
Many media/comms people interpret McLuhan's "The medium is the message" as this: that to convey a message for an audience, we have to convey it based on the attributes of the medium
What he meant: technology is the most human thing about us; it is the message of our being human
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 1, 2018
You need to up your Twitter game 😂 pic.twitter.com/RV4cJ4IIaw
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 27, 2018
McLuhan saw #technology as fragmented man on display, and with each technological iteration, the role and freedom of women has gradually been unlocked — that the integral whole of the feminine form, through technological advance, will induce the world into self-reflection
😍😍
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 27, 2018
A big irony is that we supposedly live in our most intelligent age, and yet the vast majority of our so-called most intelligent (scientists and academics) predominately study and explain our social world in a way that contradicts their own being-in the world 🤦♀️
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 24, 2018
Probably why I think worldly problems boil down to a false sense of identity, and why mythic tales reveal the false identity's veil being lifted; which Heidegger also notes in his view of art being the goal of philosophy
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 24, 2018
That's why I like his turn towards Taoism and Zen Buddhism as there is exploration in meaning of being — why we all interpret the world individually, "inauthentically" at first, prior to finding the "authentic" self (truth of being)… Later Heidegger is "woke" Heidegger 😀
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 25, 2018
#PhD students would benefit… one person I know (who had graduated the week prior) came over to say hi to me, looked at what I was reading, and asked what that "epistemology" word meant. They were confused when I replied, "Haven't you just made a contribution to knowledge?" https://t.co/F3fUoX6Znj
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 22, 2018
Religion: "Behave X way on earth so that you'll be sweet in the afterlife"
Science: "Behave X way on earth so that we can eventually avoid facing the afterlife"
Enlightenment: "Who is this 'I' that desires?"
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 20, 2018
Today I found the farewell card I received from my team circa 2014… they had included a photo of Tina Fey rolling her eyes because I (apparently and unknowingly) did it so often in reaction to people saying stupid sh*t 😂😂 #memorylane pic.twitter.com/hodJI71Dtz
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 23, 2018
I vote for 'philosophy of technology' courses instead… | Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses https://t.co/P6O8pBWxBR
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 22, 2018
Nobody likes their assumptions challenged… this *cracks* me up every time 😂 pic.twitter.com/004a2ja88I
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 21, 2018
Life is lived forward, but understood in hindsight. People's most recent work is also called their later work. Looking at stars, we look back in time; whilst our past exists only as memory, which itself changes as we bring existence into being at the place we call here and now 🤷
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 17, 2018
Instant coffee is well-deserved punishment for people in a hurry to reach the future
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 16, 2018
This week I get to talk about the weird obsession I've had with Jurassic Park since being 4 years old. I've been on the ride, visited the set, and if you read this blog you can learn of the sentence-long existential summary I give about the message of the story 😀 https://t.co/nQt9bT79ke
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) March 16, 2018
It's weird that qualitative researchers end up having to quantify their research with X amount of interviews, or Y amount of documents, over Z period of time. The idea of breaking-down the wiggliness of the world into measurable, discrete soundbites contradicts qualia experience
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 16, 2018
It's funny being in a discipline that studies the human side of technology in the world "out there", yet "in house" processes and interactions are often mechanical; the ironic and poetic observation that in studying a people-tech world, one ends up evoking a robotic performance
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 27, 2018
The world is based on different ideologies. What matters most is not what you think, but how you think.
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) August 8, 2018
Is it just me who finds it terrifying that a vast majority of academics see the world as a mathematical problem to be "solved"?
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 31, 2018
sms from my dad: "I'm currently with an anaesthetic colleague who doesn't believe me when I say you can roll your tongue four ways. Can you send me a selfie of you doing it?"
Sure, dad… 😂👅
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) November 24, 2017
We have become so equipped, so conditioned, to debate life within a limited and socially agreeable spectrum of debate. The task of all art, which is fundamentally the goal of philosophy, is to peel back the clouded veil, elevate consciousness, and expose ourselves to ourselves.
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) July 30, 2018
😂😂😂 It's funny cos' it's true #technology https://t.co/40t2p0yImr
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) June 24, 2018
What is free will free from? (asking for the thought that appeared in my conscious mind as though such a mind even exists) #ThursdayThoughts
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) October 12, 2017
It's real easy to talk about the right thing to do when it's not your life
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) June 24, 2018
OMG… If there's one thing I nerd out on more than philosophy, it's [weirdly] dinosaurs https://t.co/knTpxzP0TO
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) March 7, 2018
#InternationalSelfieDay instead of posting selfies on Instagram, I post things like this… maybe self-awareness day is needed pic.twitter.com/zuJlPT1o24
— Natalie Hardwicke (@NatHardwicke) June 22, 2018
