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Monthly Archives: September 2008

More on my dissertation

Friday, September 26, 2008

Sometimes I feel what I’ve written is a load of terrible, superficial crap. Other times I feel that I’ve written something that will at least hold the attention of the less than ten people who will read the whole dissertation – and, better, that they might find something interesting or useful in it. I am [...]

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Supernatural S04E02

Friday, September 26, 2008

Contrary to what we hoped, this episode was not about Dean getting his first period. Before moving on, I would like to take a moment and thank Eric Kripke – or whoever it is that makes decisions like this – for taking my concern about how ridiculous J-Pad looks seriously. He was much less purple [...]

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On writing dissertations

Saturday, September 20, 2008

A common problem many doctoral candidates face when writing their dissertation is knowing when to stop reading. Hence, reading replaces writing and all that accumulates are piles of half-read books and stacks of misconceived notes. Not being much of a notetaker myself, I tend to avoid, at least, the stacks of notes. (Although I have [...]

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Supernatural

Saturday, September 20, 2008

I am hesitant to write about television when I should either be writing lectures or writing my dissertation, but I’ll justify this one on the basis of a footnote mentioning Supernatural in my dissertation: While the premise of the fourth season appears to be that Dean is resurrected Jesus-style by a warrior-angel sent by “the [...]

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Others more interesting than myself

Saturday, September 13, 2008

While it is the case that I haven’t written much of interest lately, it is the case that others have written some interesting things. A brief guide: On the Palin issue: Lori Marso at Jodi Dean’s blog; Steven Shaviro; and Mikhail Emelianov at Perverse Egalitarianism. On race and the American election: John L. Jackson, Jr’s [...]

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He pays taxes

Saturday, September 6, 2008

I wish I had something interesting and insightful to say, but I don’t. I was at Canadian Tire today getting an oil change and having my headlight bulbs replaced and, while sitting in the waiting room reading Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social (I’m not particularly impressed thus far, by the way), an old man – [...]

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