FTR: See how they run ... A Letter to the BLACKhole

For The Record

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From: Ray Norman 7250 <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:58:58 +1000
Subject: FW: See how they run

Good morning/whatever!

While trying to extract myself from under the doona on Saturday morning Geraldine Doogue interviewed Gideon Haige – You probably know him from your Bradman Museum days  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/sports-governance/7789878. You too may have listened in or maybe you’ve  read the essay already in the Griffith Review – that wouldn’t surprise. ... Anyway, I imagined while listening that you might be able to ‘ join the dots’ sport-culture-wise, the corporatisation-processes-wise, etc. You’d probably know some of the corporatising SPORTSplayers et al!

Anyway, there was quite a bit that resonated with me MUSINGPLACEwise and I wasn’t thinking about cricket or football or even the BLOODYolympics ! I was kinda thinking about some possibly unfolding serendipity to do with Robin Archer [ http://robynarcher.com/] et al ... Our conversation about publications and ‘data’ ... A QVMAG MAGAZINEidea ... CRITICALthinking vehicle and outcome ... Then there is this imagining of Daniel Thomas – the 20th C champion of the “high and low art idea” – “There were small late nineteenth-century institutions in mining boom cities such as Launceston [now very much post boom] , Bendigo or Ballarat, and also at Warrnambool and Geelong” ... Etc etc etc.

I’m still sniping my way through “See how they run” mining it for this and that but there you go ... HHMMMMMM ... “the use and abuse of power” ....

https://griffithreview.com/articles/see-how-they-run/
“When Williamson wrote The Club, he said that it wasn’t so much about football
as about ‘the use and abuse of managerial power’. In that
respect, sports governance has hardly changed at all.” ....
Last line ... OUR SPORTING LIFE:  ... Strike any cords???
ESSAY:  SEE HOW THEY RUN
GIDEON HAIGH – https://griffithreview.com/editions/our-sporting-life/

A |||||zine ... A MUZINGmag ... while on the face of it is a good idea it, to deliver its inspirational outcomes,  probably needs to be at arms’s length and NOT seen as bureaucratic EMPIREbuilding  using “conscripted capital” and thus an  “unfair competitor in a competitive market” mag ... The Aquatic Centre style critiques that in the end are simply “too much lead in the saddle”!!... OR at the very least more than is helpful and thus counterproductive. IF you know and recognise a problem you can work round it.

Rather step outside and use “Volunteer Capital” ... A cooperative, a not-for-profit corporation, a community trust, whatever ... dividends being “CULTURALopportunities” ... “MARKETINGopportunities” ... “RHYZOMATICnetworking” ... “COMMUNITYnetworking” ... “DYNAMICALLYinterfacing “ ... “SERVICEproviding” ... “IDEASclearinghouse” ... ” EUNTREPRENEURALopportunities” ... freed up from “SILOEDthinking”  ... “COSTcentre mindsets”  and “HIERARCHICALstructuring”  ... “BUREAUCRATICparadigm” and thinking ... Etc. etc. etc.

While the NMA is a an exemplar of what could have been ... by-and-large a 20th C imagining – culturally, socially, technologically ... It is nonetheless a FOUNDATIONstone of a kind that a 21st C MUZINGmag might be built upon. Why do something and limit the tools you can, or will, or are prepared to, use?

BUT.... and isn’t there always a “BUT” ... Any publishing operation coming out of a ‘public institution’ needs to be mindful of NOT EXCLUDING independent authors, researchers, et al, from their collections – public collections that must remain freely available to EVERYONE. You see the BUREACRATICcolonisation of public collections is more than a real danger and it must be overtly resisted at the outset otherwise it’ll happen by stealth – some say it already has.

A remembrance ... “Here the object was to impose control on a public institution, to override the professional judgement of its staff and to root out exhibitions that challenged the critic’s preferred version of history. This was no longer a campaign against political correctness, it was an imposition of affirmative orthodoxy (Macintyre and Clark, 2003, pp.197-198). ...
The “New” Cultural Wars: ”Constructing” the National Museum of Australia Dr Greg McCarthy ... https://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/McCarthy.pdf ... SOMETHING TO PONDER UPON

Anyway just a couple of thoughts in passing as I watch on while they fly off on their way to the BLACKhole.

Regards,

Ray

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