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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Arendt on Hobbes

Thursday, November 23, 2006

An extended discussion on Hobbes in Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, from the second part on imperialism.

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Strange Searches!

Monday, November 20, 2006

July 3, 2007 at 9:00PM via Google: minnie macfarlane canine July 7, 2007 at 11:58PM via Google: mcfarlane julius liptak Still haven’t found what you’re looking for?

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A Month in the Life of Calvin

Monday, November 20, 2006

The year of bad luck for the pets continues. About two weeks ago, we noticed that Calvin had bled onto the sheets (he hides under the covers to sleep sometimes). Events such as these have happened before: Calvin is prone to outbreaks of FLUTD when he is stressed out and cats, being finicky by nature, [...]

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Battlestar and the Political

Saturday, November 18, 2006

The most interesting part – and the least developed part as well – of my presentation/talk yesterday on Battlestar Galactica, is, as they say, “below the fold.” Due to circumstances both beyond and within my control, I didn’t actually finish putting it together until about a half hour before it was my turn to speak. [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, November 17, 2006

Trifecta Edition In honour of the following three events: (1) Calvin having a tumor removed from his mouth on Tuesday afternoon, (2) that I am writing this post instead of writing the talk I am giving this afternoon, and (3) the continued popularity of “Fuck Edition” of Musical Friday, I give you: Jon Spencer Blues [...]

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A New Trend?

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Event announcements I’ve received through a variety of mail-lists the past few weeks have revealed a startling new trend: not only are people willing to give lectures, seminars and papers, but, in lieu (I imagine?) of post-lecture questions, the speaker is willing (how generous!) to give autographs. The most recent event notice I received – [...]

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Musical Friday

Friday, November 10, 2006

Rainer Maria Appreciation Edition According to that beacon of “indie rock” “culture,” Pitchfork Media (one should not be fooled by their reviews of 50 Cent, The Game, Kelly Clarkson, and JT, of course), the only woman-led “emo” band of any note (and, possibly – if you can believe it – the most pretentiously named one [...]

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Cylons and Little Green Men

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Due to a passing comment made two weeks ago, I’ve been invited to present at a graduate student conference at Carleton about Battlestar Galactica. Fortunately, the conference is thematized as “Works in Progress” and this work is certainly in progress – a few off-hand remarks and little else. So, in addition to a dissertation proposal [...]

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Canada’s Nuttiest Professors

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

(Cross-posted to Long Sunday) Idealistic and optimistic often look to Canada when the going gets tough – recall all those false promises of moving to Canada should Bush be-elected and the popularity of sites such as Marry an American – might think twice. It’s likely the case that everything is bigger in Texas and we, [...]

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Hunter’s “The History of Theory”

Sunday, November 5, 2006

(Cross-posted to Long Sunday) Ian Hunter’s article, “The History of Theory” (Critical Inquiry 33, 78-112), has come up in recent discussions as an alternative to the rather stagnant “‘Theory’ Wars” that seem to creep up every so often.

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