I seem to be doing a lot of rushing about without getting much done at the moment. We have moved into our new digs in Annandale. The place is almost set up. House warming BBQ some time soon. My parents were over last week for my graduation. They were quite ill most their stay, which […]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
floppy hat
I got to wear a floppy hat today. It was awesome.
Ghost in the Spielberg
Dreamworks has bought the rights to the Ghost in the Shell franchise. Hmmm… What is to come of my favourite Deleuze-and-Guattari-citing, massive-robot, sexy-cyborg work of Japanese popular culture? A 3-D live action thiller apprently. Ok… Live action rhizomes? The ‘ghost’ and the ‘shell’ correlate with what Deleuze described as the incorporeal and corporeal dimensions of […]
swamp monster
I am feeling a little bit swamped at the moment. I put my notice in two weeks ago on my flat and I am moving into A.’s place. We are looking for something together for us and B. We think we have found a realy nice place. Fingers crossed. A. got notice about three weeks […]
French Theory and an Americanism
From the emerging hoopla round this book, “French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States,” comes this comment: Derrida himself (or itself) lamented the “turning into method†of his more ethereal “movement†of de-construct-ing. Americans try to get things done with things. It is much like French […]