The environment (the debate continues doesn't it), and post four:)

The environment (the debate continues doesn't it?)

A really interesting story by Peter Ryan on the upcoming CHOGM meeting taken from the ABS Website - the link is below for you to have a look at if you want to:) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/01/3232530.htm?section=justin

The story discusses Australia's potential move to introduce a tax on carbon emissions but highlights the many different agenda's each country has which makes an international agreement on carbon taxes hard to achieve. Guess we will have to wait and see if it will be another Cancun and Copenhagen meeting:) The photo below is also taken from the story...what do you think of the image?

Post Four

Constructing ‘I’   -   Reflecting

No matter what I think – the ‘I’ is an unknown universe.

Who am I?

“The remove - “in the solitude of the work – the work of art, the literary work – we discover a more essential solitude […] the person who is writing the work is dismissed” (Dworkin p. 17).

The above quote was taken from Nick Thurston's discussion of Maurice Blanchot's work in considering the process a reader undertakes when reading a text. The reader will often make notes in the margin of a text, or hold a book at the margin. The main point about the notes made at the margin by a reader, an editor or critic is that it can impact on the centre of the page…the work itself. The exciting concept about writing or working from the margin is how it can be used to confront or challenge negative dominant stereotypes. In this way, the writing at the margin can be the focus of the story that the reader reads rather than the dominant discourse held by the centre of the work, and as the passage suggests, the author of the dominant discourse can be disappeared.

Now taking this concept a little further let's look at what can happen through the Curriculum Vitae (CV) process. As referenced earlier in the blog posts, Liz Stanley raises the issue of specific auto/biographical practices “…enacted within organisational contexts…” and are significant for “…the ways in which selves are recorded and refracted by the regulatory mechanisms of organisational encounters.” (Stanley p. 41). Organisational practices set up a range of identities, or identity parts, that the individual by default becomes responsible for keeping up to date. An example of this is the (CV). Each time I applied for a new position or went for a promotion I had to re-adjust my CV. This is what you are advised to do…make sure you include all the elements necessary in your CV to ensure that your job application stands out.

CURRICULUM VITAE

FOR

THE CONSTRUCING ‘I’ NARRATORS

Mmmm...

Maintaining several identities can be labourious – or is it?  Such practices are so much a part of the job application process that we don’t even think about it, other than to groan inwardly if it has been some time since you last updated said CV.  A philosophical debate from an organisational perspective centred around the idea that CV's are specifically shaped to achieve a particular outcome using specific language and cultural codes could be useful in providing a broader definition of suitable applicants.  Management practices can, or need to, or should disrupt the 'perfect applicant for the position' scenario to ensure that the right applicant for the position is actually appointed. So the 'self' I create for my CV is not my 'wholeself' - it had been pummelled by certain constraints within the position application criteria.

Choices were then made by the selection panel process used in the organisation I worked for, and whatever the outcome, the course of my life was changed:) Now what has this to do with the introductory paragraph to this post? Well, good question! Hope I can answer it. I felt a certain connection with the article and what it alluded to, to the mystery surrounding language, particularly how it can position (or not) in this case, a job applicant, and how it can be used to break-down barriers. As I look back on my CV's they have been updated along the way and the language used has changed. How many CV's should I invent, make-up, or write now? Is there a risk that one can become too refracted? 



mmm...

Going back to the quote at the beginning of the post, if the writer becomes dismissed, disappeared what is the function of the reader?  Do you define the reader's function or does the narrating 'I'...what do you think and what does the 'I' reader of myself think?

Well let us try and answers a question, the question, shall we? Let’s try answering the question

raised in the first passage of each of the posts.  DRUM ROLL........................................

Who am I? 

Well it is all about the construct of the ‘I’ or the

author and the narrator isn’t it?

                                                The ‘I’, the self, the author, the narrator

                                                                     and the writer - which is me:)?

who wants to be all of those 'I' constructs in a harmonious whole

I can be constructed in the experience of writing a text and as Liz Stanley has shown in the process of interacting with organisational constructs. But I can also construct myself for myself and leave enough room for a reader to be involved in the process.

Now as a narrator, writer, author to be, I want to undertake a creative writing project and as students we have been advised that we will have to include an exegesis as part of that creative our main writing project. I will look at the requirements and factor them into my work plan.  It will be interesting to see how the two elements come together:)

But, GETTING BACK TO THE PRACTICAL, (don't tell me you lost track - we were looking at the CV) if you want to be a creative writer you might need funding to help with your project. If you do, you have to go through the funding application process… do you see where I am heading here? I assume and I haven’t looked yet at the funding application requirements and meeting them process, but I would imagine that I would have to provide a CV – an updated CV – to support the application.

Wow - I think I think it is time to actually have some fun with my CV's:)

I like metaphors too:)

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WORKS CITED

Dworkin. Craig (2006) "Cenography: Editor's Introduction" Nick Thurston’s Reading the Remove of Literature. York: Information as Material.  Available at: http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/Editor/DworkinCenography.pdf  Accessed 5 April 2011. Web.

Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia. Reading Autobiography : A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 viewed 17 April 2011 
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