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I Am The Blob: April 2010
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I Am The Blob. Thursday, April 29, 2010. I, like many others, am concerned and horrified that Middlesex University has decided to cut its Philosophy Department entirely. As An und Für Sich notes. The entire situation bodes extremely badly for the fate of all research into continental thought, regardless of department. Infinite Thought has posted details. Of the Save Philosophy at Middlesex campaign, which includes a petition. As well as a Facebook group. This is 'canary in a coal mine' territory. Of cour...
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I Am The Blob: We we we, all the way home...
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I Am The Blob. Friday, January 22, 2010. We we we, all the way home. Graham Harman has responded. To my previous post. Hurrah! I exist in the realms of internet textual exchanges. He considers the use of 'we' in academic writing, rather than 'I'. This reminded me, in reference to my anecdote about how my Honours supervisor instilled a horror of the 'I' in me, that said supervisor was even more. What gives you the. Right to say 'we'? April 3, 2010 at 6:33 PM. June 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM. The I is a. What?
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I Am The Blob: September 2009
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I Am The Blob. Thursday, September 17, 2009. A reading group I participate in read some of Jeremy Bentham's A Fragment on Government. Yesterday. One of the things that struck the group: if you exchanged this work for Sterne's Tristram Shandy. No one would notice the difference. The work is a fabulous thousand-layer tissue of digressions, exhaustive rambles and denouements. This little gem tickled the fancy of the group. Bentham is discussing/dissing a work by William Blackstone, the English jurist:.
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I Am The Blob: August 2009
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I Am The Blob. Tuesday, August 18, 2009. I will say one thing about Lady GaGa. Let me put on record that I do like the songs of Lady GaGa. They function on a dancefloor. They have good metaphor use. I like the production. I even like her voice. Her clips are improving tremendously – the one for Paparazzi. Is just astounding, as Guy. Has also noted. She can carry a leotard. I think the aggressive focus on her crotch in her clips is interesting. Being a pop star is not easy. I do not care for this. Working...
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I Am The Blob: In Chicago
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I Am The Blob. Saturday, April 3, 2010. After a preliminary walk around the neighbourhood in which I'm staying, I feel pretty exhausted, so I thought I'd write a blog post about my travels so far. My travel blogging will probably be a haphazard thing. I then took a stroll through streets of the campus, past prim-looking gothic houses, to visit Robie House. Here The neighbourhood I'm staying in is very picturesque. Lots of well-tended little gardens doing things that are appropriate for Spring - small...
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Pop Frippery.: GaGa: Verdict
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Saturday, April 10, 2010. OK, so I didn't enjoy GaGa. Possibly, but not necessarily erroneously. It wasn't just my extreme age dulling my enjoyment. Basically, it wasn't a great show. Or, rather, it wasn't a show great enough to match the truly great things GaGa is doing in every other sphere - her clips, visual imagery, appearances etc. Because the production was merely mediocre, everything seemed slightly duller. Than one would expect: her costumes weren't nearly as interesting or avant garde. Have bee...
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Pop Frippery.: February 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010. Has she had work done? Is a vacant starlet in the truest sense (see this. Nonetheless her complete plastic surgery makeover is a bold move, and raises some interesting questions about, umm, the boundaries of identity. While I'm tempted to say that in becoming a completely different person. Is making a profound political statement, she's most likely playing out some kind of body dysmorphia. Unfortunately her face is so bruised she's unable to promote her new album Superficial.
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Pop Frippery.: December 2009
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A song to make me happy. Sunday, December 13, 2009. I somehow got a hold of a physical copy of Shakira's. Album, even though the release has now been pulled until 2010, which suggests record company disarray and panic. Very sad. But anyway, the album is strong, although only nine tracks (if you exclude the Spanish version of She Wolf. Which puts it in The Fame Monster. Mini-album territory. Men in this Town. With only slight modulation. (In an album of nine tracks, how can there be filler? I Am The Blob.
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Pop Frippery.: Not Myself Tonight
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. I'm reluctant to slag this off, because a) I think Xtina. Has done some really good stuff (albeit mostly in the Stripped. Period) and b) it's too easy in the era of Lady GaGa. To assume that those who've come before her are now stealing her moves. That might be partly true, but the reality is more reciprocal, and I'm sure Xtina has also in a sense paved the way. For GaGa (just as Kylie has - there I said it). But enough moderation. Not Myself Tonight. Vids which, if you take them...
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Julia's empty fruit bowl: A new beginning...
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Julia's empty fruit bowl. Saturday, February 13, 2010. So, after I rudely bullied Jess into writing the first post on this blog I abandoned it to cyberwasteland for almost a year, but now I am determined to be back! What else do I have to do I hear you say.). Anyway, in a mission to actually to some reading and thinking this year as opposed to lounging about and remarking of the strange proclivities of the Germans I hereby declare this blog open! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
