A few months back I did a talk at Trading Ideas, with Joanna Best from Troppo Architects, Charles Darwin PVC Giselle Byrnes, and one of my favourite Lord Mayors, Katrina Fong Lim. The thing I like most about Darwin is that, unlike so many cities in Australia, it isn’t hell bent on being anything other… Continue reading On the Merits of Darwin Not Being Copenhagen
Tag: Plato
A Book Review: Gorgias, by Plato, Penguin Classics, 2004.
Travelling by airliner is deeply emblematic of the modern age. All that steel and heat inexplicably hurtling through the atmosphere would be unthinkable in any age other than our own. Naturally, I find it a pretty gruelling affair. For the first few hours, I’m thrilled at the idea. Then I realise I’m stuck in a… Continue reading A Book Review: Gorgias, by Plato, Penguin Classics, 2004.