Can it really be almost a month since I've updated? Well, at least I've been doing something on my dissertation again: finished a chapter last week, and went right back to writing again this week. I want to turn in a first version in September, and that means about 100 pages between now and then, some of it not researched yet.
Anyway, I'm also trying to decide what to do with the time between when I turn my dissertation in (early September) and the time University starts again (late October). Part of me wants to just go off wandering in Spain, and another part of me wants to go to France to really finally get my French in order again: I can still read academic articles, but anything spoken beyond "parlez-vous allemand ou anglais?" is beyond me. I guess I'm at that point with French where I was with German one year ago: I can either do an intensive course and work it out, or get progressively worse.
Also, broke up with my girlfriend two weeks ago. I didn't really want to do it, and my best friends were telling me that if I wasn't happy just to wait a bit, but I'm always a type who likes to get things out on the table and have done with it. I don't like limbos. Anyway, I wasn't getting what I wanted or needed. Blah.
DEEP THROAT FALLOUT: I did see a cool article, though, the other day, from John Dean, about his work over the years, and pointing out that Mark Felt's coming out as Deep Throat doesn't really solve most of the pressing questions. If you want to read it, it's here: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050603.html
MICHEL FOUCAULT: Stupid book review in the Boston Globe last Sunday about Foucault. Now about the new book about his stint as a reporter in Tehran, just before and during the Islamic revolution. Implying that because he went a bit ga-ga for the Islamists, that somehow his whole philosophy is null and void. Yeah, really logical. Accompanied by all sorts of "expert commentary" from intellectuals. I won't even provide the link for that one, because it was so stupid. You can find it on Arts and Letters Daily though, if you're curious. It was in the left-hand column on Thursday (yesterday). It just made me want to write an angry letter...
Anyway, I'm also trying to decide what to do with the time between when I turn my dissertation in (early September) and the time University starts again (late October). Part of me wants to just go off wandering in Spain, and another part of me wants to go to France to really finally get my French in order again: I can still read academic articles, but anything spoken beyond "parlez-vous allemand ou anglais?" is beyond me. I guess I'm at that point with French where I was with German one year ago: I can either do an intensive course and work it out, or get progressively worse.
Also, broke up with my girlfriend two weeks ago. I didn't really want to do it, and my best friends were telling me that if I wasn't happy just to wait a bit, but I'm always a type who likes to get things out on the table and have done with it. I don't like limbos. Anyway, I wasn't getting what I wanted or needed. Blah.
DEEP THROAT FALLOUT: I did see a cool article, though, the other day, from John Dean, about his work over the years, and pointing out that Mark Felt's coming out as Deep Throat doesn't really solve most of the pressing questions. If you want to read it, it's here: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050603.html
MICHEL FOUCAULT: Stupid book review in the Boston Globe last Sunday about Foucault. Now about the new book about his stint as a reporter in Tehran, just before and during the Islamic revolution. Implying that because he went a bit ga-ga for the Islamists, that somehow his whole philosophy is null and void. Yeah, really logical. Accompanied by all sorts of "expert commentary" from intellectuals. I won't even provide the link for that one, because it was so stupid. You can find it on Arts and Letters Daily though, if you're curious. It was in the left-hand column on Thursday (yesterday). It just made me want to write an angry letter...