I have been trying to write abstracts for each of my chapters and I have found it very difficult. This morning I realised that, taking into account that I have less than one year left and that I want to finish in this time, I may have to shift the focus of my dissertation. I […]
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Care of the Other/Self
My high school chemistry teacher gave me two pieces of excellent advice. He told me that I always sought to give a trick answer even when it was not a trick question being asked. (This was bad for high school chemistry btw, as it involved heaps of wrote learning and formulaic regurgitation of formula.) Secondly, […]
e-Affect
It is difficult enough to figure out when people are being serious or not in everyday face-to-face conversation, let alone online or in other ‘nu-tech’ scriptual economies, such as mobile phone texting… The emoticon emerged as a direct result of the lack of easily expressible affect in online exchanges. The genealogy of the emoticon probably […]
Badiou is funny and Zizek: The Movie
So Badiou has a sense of humour. This is awesome. Elspeth’s comments re reactionaries and the necessary response from academics are exemplified in Badiou’s article on the hijab and the French situation. My favourite bit of the article isn’t so funny though: 19. There’s no getting around it: thought’s enemy nowadays is property, business, things […]
how sweet it is…
So I bought a loaf of what can only be described as ‘sugar bread’. That is, a loaf of bread with sugar on it. But it is only half a loaf. 5am? Indeed. Bit of a late night… What else to say? Except. Tonight can only be described in one word: crazy. What a crazy […]