This week’s reading for my Repetition seminar was particularly easy (compared with the thicker theoretical stuff we’ve been doing), but I found it quite refreshing, actually. Probably because the authors are quite clever. Anyway, this was a good thing, because next week we’re going to slog through Derrida’s differance essay. That should be fun in …
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— The first half of the Indy-Cincinnati game today was the best 30 minutes of football I’ve seen all year. Absolutely astoundingly good. — My hotel in Boston was located near two stores I really wanted to visit, the Hello Kitty Store and Daddy’s Junky Music. The former, well, the less I say about that, …
Okay, it’s not really that big of a day. I go to a faculty meeting with this huge pile of proposed courses and chaanges to the grad curriculum and hopefully they all get passed.(1) Then Carrie and I get on a plane to Boston for a conference–the National Communication Association (U.S.). It’ll be nice to …
I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I find the whole metadiscourse around branding to just sound patently absurd. Now, I’ll grant you that if a marketing exec were to have a look-see into, say, the “god is a lobster” discussion in A Thousand Plateaus, he or she might rightly feel that we humanities …
Spoiler Alert So as you may know, I am a fan of Lost, an ABC series that’s been quite popular lately. On Wednesday’s episode, Shannon, an annoying white woman, sleeps with Said, a “strong silent type” Iraqui character. It’s network TV, so you just know because there’s a shot of them lying together in a …
Yesterday, a friend wrote to run some possible titles for his book by me. It occurred to me that I’d become somewhat opinionated about titles for academic books and articles. Since this is my blog, I’m going to share my opinions with you. All usual disclaimers apply and I realize this doesn’t work for all …
Courtesy of Norbert Elias, in The Civilizing Process, in his section “On the Eating of Meat”: Although human phenomena–whether attitudes, wishes or structures–may be looked at on their own, independently of their connections with the social life of people, they are by nature nothing but substantializations of human relations and of human behaviour, embodiments of …
