Oldfield's "Citizenship and community" & peripheral concerns
I've got multiple piles of books that needs finishing, though I can't really seem to couple the time with the motivation to finish them up. You'd think sitting here and listning to Muslimgauze that I'd do something, but instead I'm sitting here and listening to Muslimgauze; not to say that sitting here and listening to Muslimgauze is non-existant, but merely that it isn't the class of activity most elevate to the class of "activity". Who says English needs fixing?
In short, I should've finished Catch-22 as well as Philosophy and Social Hope (Rorty) and Holy War, Inc., but instead I didn't finish any of them. Didn't even touch Rorty. This is disappointing, because I have yet to finish Pale Fire, yet to start Rememberance of Things Past and thus am nowhere near attempting a reread of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Also sitting and waiting are Carnap, Quine, Heidegger, Arendt, Jamaica Kincaid and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Clearly, I'm rapidly broaching worthlessness. However, I have made several runs thru my meagre collective of Musimgauze, and particuarly enjoy the track called "Help Afghanistan to Grow More Prosperous" from 1999's Keffeen Head. I like to listen to it while reading Holy War, Inc. Also filling time have been Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Sessions, a LaMonte Young record that I believe is called Pre-Tortoise Dream Music, Vol. 1 (but that I ripped from WTUL and was never quite informed of the title), and the new T.A.T.U. single called "Cosmos (Outer Space)" which is much better than it has any right to be.
On the other hand, I have finished reading an article by Adrian Oldfield called "Citizenship and community: Civic republicanism and the modern world", which is a pretty tremendous placental gumbo of Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Mill, John Rawls, and Aristotle. I can't really tell if a point is ever made; it is asserted that community is a good thing, then that citizenship is a good thing, then that we need the one to get the other, and then, in an Isaiah Berlin-esque blast of maddening commonsense, that education is good. Of course, at no point do we really break out of the cycle of using citizenship to justify community or commnunity to justify citizenship, but it seems to make sense while your brain is getting Iron Maidened in the middle of it. Specifically engineered to miss anything vital, so the metaphor tropes off into the distance.
And, still, a Shakespeare play plus one paper, as well as a paper somewhere in the middle of this Oldfield article and three more, are all slated to slide of my loins by this Thursday. We'll see about that. Luckily, the philosophy course that I thought would be Continental, then became (briefly) mathematical logic, then became analytical, has become cancelled for this week, leaving me a whole Wednesday on which to write the Shakespeare paper. Given the level of analyticity of the given Shakespeare course, I expect it should take little more than a quick squat to finalize the character study required.
A trip back home to New Orleans is in the works, but not until there is water. And not on the stoop, either. I need to bargain with the steaks my roommate bought that apparently became a sort of black fluid as of two weeks ago - I desire that they leae peaceably. I also need to see about continuing to rent my apartment. Maybe the fluid can pick up part of the rent. Now I just need a time.
In short, I should've finished Catch-22 as well as Philosophy and Social Hope (Rorty) and Holy War, Inc., but instead I didn't finish any of them. Didn't even touch Rorty. This is disappointing, because I have yet to finish Pale Fire, yet to start Rememberance of Things Past and thus am nowhere near attempting a reread of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Also sitting and waiting are Carnap, Quine, Heidegger, Arendt, Jamaica Kincaid and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Clearly, I'm rapidly broaching worthlessness. However, I have made several runs thru my meagre collective of Musimgauze, and particuarly enjoy the track called "Help Afghanistan to Grow More Prosperous" from 1999's Keffeen Head. I like to listen to it while reading Holy War, Inc. Also filling time have been Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Sessions, a LaMonte Young record that I believe is called Pre-Tortoise Dream Music, Vol. 1 (but that I ripped from WTUL and was never quite informed of the title), and the new T.A.T.U. single called "Cosmos (Outer Space)" which is much better than it has any right to be.
On the other hand, I have finished reading an article by Adrian Oldfield called "Citizenship and community: Civic republicanism and the modern world", which is a pretty tremendous placental gumbo of Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Mill, John Rawls, and Aristotle. I can't really tell if a point is ever made; it is asserted that community is a good thing, then that citizenship is a good thing, then that we need the one to get the other, and then, in an Isaiah Berlin-esque blast of maddening commonsense, that education is good. Of course, at no point do we really break out of the cycle of using citizenship to justify community or commnunity to justify citizenship, but it seems to make sense while your brain is getting Iron Maidened in the middle of it. Specifically engineered to miss anything vital, so the metaphor tropes off into the distance.
And, still, a Shakespeare play plus one paper, as well as a paper somewhere in the middle of this Oldfield article and three more, are all slated to slide of my loins by this Thursday. We'll see about that. Luckily, the philosophy course that I thought would be Continental, then became (briefly) mathematical logic, then became analytical, has become cancelled for this week, leaving me a whole Wednesday on which to write the Shakespeare paper. Given the level of analyticity of the given Shakespeare course, I expect it should take little more than a quick squat to finalize the character study required.
A trip back home to New Orleans is in the works, but not until there is water. And not on the stoop, either. I need to bargain with the steaks my roommate bought that apparently became a sort of black fluid as of two weeks ago - I desire that they leae peaceably. I also need to see about continuing to rent my apartment. Maybe the fluid can pick up part of the rent. Now I just need a time.
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