Knowledge, Theory of

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-587-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters. NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election. A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures. Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated. NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up. Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance. Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated. Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco. Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls. Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...' Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door. Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco. Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help. Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...' New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team. World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last. Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows. Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices. The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor. Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [1980-1988]

From: Bliss, Charles Henry (Dr), 1909-1997 : Papers relating to his life and work

Reference: MS-Papers-5683-12

Description: Comprises draft of philosophical writing with an introduction; chapters on topics such as noumenalism, metaphysics, consciousness, will, guilt and penalty and other aspects of personal philsophy; a glossary; a critique by E J Tapp and a letter from Ted re letter on death penalty Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1980-1988]

From: Bliss, Charles Henry (Dr), 1909-1997 : Papers relating to his life and work

Reference: MS-Papers-5683-16

Description: Comprises prologue, chapters on noumenalism, metaphysics, will, epistemology, freedom, guilt, an omphologue and epilogue Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1986-1988]

From: Bliss, Charles Henry (Dr), 1909-1997 : Papers relating to his life and work

Reference: Series-0001

Description: Comprises holograph and typescript copies of `Somebody else', the autobiography of Bliss; `The Individual and the crowd', a philosophical work, also in holograph and typescript Quantity: 8 folder(s).

Date: 2006

From: Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[Cartoons published in the Whangarei Report April to July 2006]

Reference: H-751-062

Description: A singularly unattractive man lies snoring in front of the television. Both he and his wife have been reading articles about the work that the brain does during sleep. His wife cynically wonders what profound statement her husband will produce when he wakes up. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: [1985]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2001-060-30

Description: Title continues: `...the role of libraries and of the book trade'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1938-1986]

From: Bliss, Charles Henry (Dr), 1909-1997 : Papers relating to his life and work

Reference: MS-Papers-5683-01

Description: Comprises published articles by Bliss: `Spinal anaesthesia' (1938); `Three-dimensional projection of earthquakes beneath active margins' (1979); `Tensional tectonics in orogeny' (1980); and unpublished articles: `A few words on universals', `The Aristotelian Society: an appraisal by an amateur philospoher' and correspondence with Ronald Atkinson re this (1985-1986), untitled writing on science and epistemology; copy of `Father Damien, an open letter to the Rev Dr Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson' (1890) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2007

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008361

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee talking about her knowledge of KiwiSaver. She knows it's voluntary, but is it a good thing to join, can she afford deductions of 4-8%, and if she doesn't join will she find herself in 2042 wishing she had joined. Debbe asks Tony if Jaimee will have a different hairstyle by then. Tony says she would be ideally placed to tell from the next Lay-Z-Boy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).