Ed Granter

@edgranter

Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.

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Ed Granter@edgranter· 28d

My proposed minister for AI

The main human guy out of 2001 A Space Odyssey I think he's called Dave

Ed Granter@edgranter· 29d

Getting a t-shirt back out of the rag pile and wearing it as a treat.

Section of a raggedy faded black t shirt with like a bleach stain.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jul 10

Something for the archaeologists of the future

Melted tar on a pavement in England. There are two pens embedded like that insect in amber I used to see in books

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jul 7

Final scene from John Carpenter film The Fog which is premised on something to do with a town being founded on gold which was stolen from dead sailors (pictured). They're in a church where some of the gold ended up, and they'd like it back.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jul 7

New Chemistry suite

The willy wonka chocolate factory experience photo where the lady actor is in like a lab and she looks nonplussed

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jul 3

Accidental renaissance Manchester photo. Loads of drunk people one of whom is being arrested

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jun 26

This worked well on the walk home from school

A 7 year old lad with a big sprayer bottle full of water spraying himself to cool down. In a garden with outdoor furniture and decking and a lawn.

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 31

Picture of Windsor Davies in the TV comedy 'It ain't half hot mum'

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 18

Lovely at any time

Two oatcakes on a plate with red cabbage and brown sauce and a fork. Inside the oatcakes probably sausage, bacon and Cheshire cheese.

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 11

Anthony Sher in the TV version of the book The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 4

Best beef jerky I've ever made #topside

Two plastic food containers with beef jerky in them. Onion and coriander seeds stuck to it. Very dark brown. It's a bit glazed looking because I turned the heating up at the last minute because it was this far impossibly tough. Less tough now.

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 2

First attempt at home forging with m'laddo

9 year old holding a rubber tube blowing air into charcoal through a metal tube. The charcoal is in an old wheelbarrow and we've put it above a big hole we dug. In the garden. Bit of the charcoal is glowing red and there is a flattened piece of angle iron in the red bit.

Two bits of flattened angle iron next to a bit of an old wood vise attached to a big bit of wood. That served as the anvil. Also an old lump hammer with a short wooden handle.

Ed Granter@edgranter· May 1

It does take a long time. My recent problem was the dalek bins are next to a leylandii hedge and the roots go up into the bins forming a mass and rendering the compost unusable

A load of compost that's turned into a mass of white leylandii root mass

Ed Granter@edgranter· Mar 27

Tell you what, samosa chaat for breakfast is alright

Takeaway container with samosa chaat in it. Half a portion cos I ate the other half last night. Looks like chopped tomatoes, onions and chickpeas with a bit of yoghurt on top.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Mar 13

"It's more of a comment than a question"

Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon as that gold winged flying guy with a gold helmet and armour as well. He's in the sky, probably shouting 'who wants to live forever'? Or 'second wave...Diiiive!' or somesuch.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Mar 12

I've got this handy

Book cover. Manias Panics and Crashes. A history of financial crises. By Kindleberger and Aliber.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Mar 8

Bottle of caper based liquor Strupo. From a Simpsons episode.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Mar 7

My mum gave me your mum's cookbook when I left home many years ago, and I still use it. Precious memories.

Indian Cooking (book) by Lalita Ahmed (1981) on a table with a bay tree branch to the right and cut flowers behind.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Feb 24

Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons holds his business card saying "works on contingency? No, money down!" And the ?, the , and the ? are added in red pen to change the meaning

Ed Granter@edgranter· Feb 20

Systems are for the little people. The big ones have intuition.

Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline (1978[34]) page 18 containing the quote in the post.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Feb 2

share.google/AYYQ1fdRLdMa... I don't care if I'm cited or downloaded or whatever. Cite Adorno & Co. They clocked the (despicable) way things work back in the 1940s.

Similarly for Adorno, the racket society is suffused with conspiracy, and individuals on the path to power and wealth are apt to cultivate ‘murky connections’ (Adorno, 2005: 23). These proliferate in a society of closed and monopolistic hierarchies where those seeking material success develop a ‘knowledge of all the channels and plug-holes of power, they divine its most secret judgements and live by adroitly propagating them’ (ibid: 24). In such a society, ‘[g]etting through by hook or crook is the secret ideal’ (Horkheimer, 1941: 385).
In political terms, the racket society represents a drift away from liberal democracy towards direct and privatized rule by powerful cliques. To some extent, this constitutes a new or refined theory of the ruling class. For Horkheimer, the understanding is that every level of society, from the ‘highest capitalistic bodies’ (1943: 23) to the gangs of the proletariat (ibid: 22) are engaged in a struggle to acquire a ‘large part of the circulating surplus value’ (ibid: 20).

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jan 15

Tonight's audiobook

Screenshot of the audiobook screen of born in flames

Ed Granter@edgranter· Jan 5

Emergency #oatcakes

Off white dinner plate with two rolled up Staffordshire oatcakes, some pickled cabbage, some brown sauce, and a fork.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Dec 19

Roses are red, violets are pure,

Woman's shock as goose smashes through front door (BBC News - Woman's shock as goose smashes through front door in Countesthorpe - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3wpwg4e0qo)

Ed Granter@edgranter· Dec 3

Me, mum and dad, and a friend, CND march, London 1982.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Nov 27

Book cover: Critical Social Theory and the End of Work by Edward Granter.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Nov 24

Posted @ucu.org.uk

My hand posting an envelope into a red pillar box (post box)

Ed Granter@edgranter· Nov 23

Pls don't use the word 'reboot' I spent last week trying to fix my eldest lad's PC 📀😬🖥️

Ed Granter@edgranter· Oct 18

Check out little and large pumpkin from the allotment. Plus a special thing which a fellow plotholder had spare. Any guesses what it is?

Big pumpkin on left, then tiny one in middle, then a thing that looks like a cauliflower but isn't. All on a table in my kitchen.

Ed Granter@edgranter· Oct 3

Just finished the darkly fascinating Murderland by @calfraser.bsky.social Extraordinary writing and research. As someone else once put it: 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime'...