I'm getting irregular about updating, it seems.
Things with O are going well -- Saturday we had a good conversation and a walk around Green Lake, which relieved much of the trepidation I was feeling about our budding relationship. I think I came away with a much clearer perspective on the situation.
Otherwise, things are as good as ever, aside from the fact that I can't seem to get my arse to bed at a reasonable hour (and symmetrically, I can't get it out of bed at a reasonable hour). Either my weird sleeping schedule or the coming winter is starting to make me drag a bit, so I'll have to experiment.
Tonight, J's band Pufferfish played at the Croc, and I took lots of photos (again). Look for them to appear here, along with the photos I took at some other Pufferfish shows.
Things with O are going well -- Saturday we had a good conversation and a walk around Green Lake, which relieved much of the trepidation I was feeling about our budding relationship. I think I came away with a much clearer perspective on the situation.
Otherwise, things are as good as ever, aside from the fact that I can't seem to get my arse to bed at a reasonable hour (and symmetrically, I can't get it out of bed at a reasonable hour). Either my weird sleeping schedule or the coming winter is starting to make me drag a bit, so I'll have to experiment.
Tonight, J's band Pufferfish played at the Croc, and I took lots of photos (again). Look for them to appear here, along with the photos I took at some other Pufferfish shows.
Time goes fast, when you are having a great time. Glad things are going well with O. What's your perspective?
Happy Halloween!
Pumpkin
In conclusion, Foucaults model of the governmentalized state fails to account for continuities in terms of prejudice, racism and colonialism. By placing the family at the center of his conception of society, and the patriarch (the sovereign, the prince, the father or mother) at the apex of that structural unit, Foucaults model underplays the very complexity that leads to the formation of social sciences to quantify and describe divergent and often antagonistic interests. By placing such faith in positivism, it ignores the ways in which fact is manipulated and shaped by the assumptions on which those facts are based. It fails to have much predictive validity when faced with the complexities of real government and the ways in which decisions are made and enforced. The relationship of state formation and science is a complex. Information gained through scientific methods perpetuates the state and keeps in it equilibrium; but, as the constant appearance of separatist movements and revolutionary fringes suggests, that equilibrium is tenuous at best and often enforced by the sort of callous disregard exercised by the powerful sovereign rather than the methodical bureaucrat.