Phil Apper writes:
>>
>> Anyway, as an alumni of the university in which Martin now sits, I
>remain
>> sceptical of the impression of lunch in Bangor which Martin attempts to
>> imply. But should we not return to Epicurus through the lens of Marx? If
>the
>> biological needs of our body are so muted that we miss lunch, then
>surely
>we
>> did not need lunch, and therefore lunchtime was indeed an illusion - or
>> rather a socially constructed activity whose object is other than that
>of
>> satisfying a biological need. Which brings us back to time, or the
>conscious
>> experience of time, as being a cultural phenomenon.
>>
>> Now - having completed my Emails - it is time for breakfast.
O tempores, o mores.
Phil, they have closed the refectories.
One has become a night club another they will use them to store unwanted
library books.(ie most of them!)
But... there are pubs are open in Bangor at 9:00 am now, it is enough to
drive one to drink.
However this is useful data in a conversation elsewhere in the use CHAT in
the analysis of change and innovation in higher education.
Does the privatised food taste better?
Martin
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