Friday, October 06, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Declensions of the Self – A Bestiary of Modernity
I spent last weekend at a conference in Edmonton, Alberta entitled:
Declensions of the Self – A Bestiary of Modernity
Excellent conference. Saw James, mi cuate from Mexico City. Also heard a lot of great presentations relating to Comparative literature, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, political science.
I made a collage of the titles to give an impression of what it was like:
“Existing in Subordination: Popular Music, Midgets, and a Vicious Cycle of Identity”
“If Adorno isn’t the Devil, it’s because He’s a Jew: Lyotard’s Mis-reading of Adorno’s Aesthetics through Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus”
“Wittgenstein’s Ordinary Language Rules and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Birds in Ulysses”
James Martell’s “Hamlet’s Rest (of silence): The Telos of a Declension”
“‘Playing True’, Playing Pure: Another (Re)thinking: Performance Enhancing Drugs and Repression and Liberation in Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
“Working at the Limit: Indoor Rowing and the Agony of Ecstasy”
Edmonton
Edmonton green and yellow
Edmonton
Autumn leaves whirling in circles
The sweet taste of music
Seeing old friends and meeting new
3 cheers to our Canadian hosts
And to all the things I wish I knew
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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