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I love motown!

Walter Mondale got his ass whupped! I was rooting for him, though.

The buddhists say "If you can do something about a problem, there's no point in worrying. If you can't do something about a problem, worrying will do no good." Fear & anxiety are usually irrational and/or based out of self cherishing. Compassion is your greatest protection.

Catholicism & poli sci don't mix, man....

I'm a faculty brat, I grew up in college towns.

I'm writing this on my new iBook! I forgot to register for classes today!


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Oh my, The Birth of the Clinic...so difficult! What does he says in the beginning, "This book is about space...?" Or is it the gaze? Whatever, it's all downhill from there in terms of lucidity. Good luck on that one.

I was thinking about all of this stuff tonight.

I really think Foucault's chief concern is the partitioning off of groups and their subsequent marginalization, oppression, etc. This really is the trajectory of Madness and Civilization. It's so less about madness, so much more about power, division, and the production of the (mad) subject. There is a remark from the Foucault-Chomsky debate that should be noted. He says:

So, if you would include ossification as part of all this, I am with you. Or maybe ossification is just a question of temporal degree (in other words, it's long enough to care about), in which case I think we also agree.

But the whole point of genealogy being break, discontinuity, and shift, it seems to me that the everything is continually up for grabs and changing. But there always is the unbalance, and hence the marginalized.

"Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts. If you're tagged it's your turn."

sorry...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, man. I'm bascially planning on knocking myself out.

Imagine this though: last year, me on a the flight out to Europe, within reaching distance of about 3 screaming babies. I think I watched the second Matrix movie 5 times. Everything else on there was even worse. Oh my.

pcat makes me violently ill just t think about. excuse me while i go throw up.

I think the question of a Foucauldian categorical imperative is a good one, no matter how nervous it makes people (Marx actually refers to having his own c.i. at some point!). Obviously we have to be somewhat loose with it, but the point is, what is that Foucault wants to do? Smart 20th century thinkers know the problems with grand social projects, but that doesn't mean there isn't something to be done, even if it is humbler and simpler. I mean, come on, Arendt, Camus, the Frankfurt School--clearly these guys have aims.

After that brief line above about everything being dangerous, Foucault talks about critique as "always [giving] us something to do." And, well, I think we have to accept that at some point, while Foucault had an affinity towards the Frankfurt School, he really isn't a Marcuse (thinking of Eros and Civilization in particular here).

But, you really, really, really need to look at Foucault's very brief statement on human rights from 1984. In fact, I'm scanning it to .pdf for you today at work.

You guys really have to add Rabinow's The Foucault Reader and The Essential Foucault to your list. I was nowhere near understanding Foucault (if I am now) before I came across these books. And I think in here a lot of your concerns are addressed. Great short essays and interviews abound.

I might bless you with holy status for that last inquiry, my good man. He's up top in my personal JLA pantheon as far as I'm concerned, so there you go...


Join us for the Nov. 4th Meet'n Greet, DOOD!!!

i bet.

i can't say that i've ever had food poisoning with any certainty, but i *have* have nights (or wee early mornings* where i would forced awake by very stronger stomach pains, and then have to rush to the bathroom. sometimes i would just sleep next to the toilet with my head on the tub. luckily that hasn't happened in several years, but yeah...

anyway, i hope you get over this bout of and will soon be ready for

haber-who? all right, I'm not one of those philosohy types...

Y'know, once upon a time I used to be really down on folks in my department who would skip talks and such. I would go to every single one, whether it was up my alley or not.

But then, I got old, and I got involved in my dissertation (and a bit burned out, to be honest), and I started to understand. You can't beat yourself up for being too busy and not enough interested. Your friend may have been helped by your feedback, Dr. H. probably wouldn't have started a deep friendship with you just because you went to his workshop.

Hey, congrats on finishing your comps! Now the easy part is over...

Speaking of, I'm reading a book on political science research methodology and dissertation writing, and it's blowing my mind. I wish I'd read something like this before writing my own diss... you guys really have your heads on straight.

And, if you want to move beyond kids' movies... ah, it's not worth it. But if you do, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of Our Brand Is Crisis. I think I ranted about it in my LJ already (actually, it's probably not out on DVD yet).

protests...you are quite right...i could spout off on some long diatribe about how i feel about this...but i think you probably already know what i'm going to say and you are feelin' it too...so i'll just sum it up with: BLAH.

you sound happy and excited, and thats a good thing.

you know, i had a college roommate who majred in geography at the u of c. i couldnt believe they 1. have that as a major and 2. some of the unusual (but seemingly cool) classes she had and 3. there were two others her year that were also geography majors. what cracked me up is, at the end of the year i guess they give out 3 awards...and i assumed it would be nice if they just gave each award to each of the three people...but nooooo, my roomate won all three, incurring the jealousy and hatred of the others. ha.

the "new" profile pic is actually pretty old. but it is THE ONLY digital picture of me that exists in this universe.

Oh yeah, and the two party thing. I voted for Nader in the past 2 presidential elections, and in the first, I was definitely agreeing with him on the lack of a meaningful distinction between the two parties. However, that should be pretty damned clear now. I'll admit that I was wrong and that so was he, but how could anyone have seen 9/11 and its capitalization on and the political plague embodied in the administration--as orchestrated by that fuck, Karl Rove? I guess some foresaw the latter part, but damn.

Oh yeah, my degree does nothing but confuse employers. I don't regret; it made me who I am.

I am trying to be proactive. And I really hope that luck goes my way this time.

That's why you gotta sniff it.

Your exam is written? Mine was oral. I'm not sure what's worse, to be honest.

I hear what you're saying about Bush. It's eerie having him spout forth New Deal era lingo about poverty - but I think we both know there's absolutely no substance to it. He's "tabled" the estate tax repeal for the moment, but he hasn't dismissed it. I'm sure when hurricane season is a distant memory in people's minds we'll start hearing about the evils of "double taxation" and how the estate tax hurts "family farms" all over again.

I can understand how the libertarian notion of a small state would have thrived in the era that, say, Rand was writing, when the bureaucratic, faceless behemoth of the USSR was a real thing. But the US government has been so effective in so many different areas I can't see how that sort of small-govenrment philosophy still has as many adherents as it does.

As Bush has a proven record as a failed businessman, his latest business, the United States of America, is his biggest fuckup to date. Is there an economics teacher on this planet who would not grade him an F right now???


Wow! How cool would that be? The section with the Flashes and the Supermen across my shoulders or something?? There you go giving me ideas now!!


For about 25 years, I have been apeshit for just about anything considered to be "Earth 2" in nature. I love me some JSA!