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Sorry Jambo, your response slipped by. Yes, a gimmick, reading the extracts I thought it was cack to be honest, but then I've never really warmed to the sort of Perec/Oulipo type word play it continues on from. As op/ed what impressed me, entirely, was the work schedule. Fear, fascination...

“So I was working 40 hours a week at the special orders desk of a big Toronto bookstore. Then after that job was done I'd spend 20 or more hours a week tutoring advanced high school students in science and mathematics. Then I'd go home and work on my PhD dissertation [on the French playwright...

Ah, schadenfreude!

Lust, Caution Saw Lust, Caution by Ang Lee over the weekend. Too long but I have the urge to go see it again almost immediately. An unusual response for me to a movie. The female lead, so gorgeous and intelligently expressive, just one aspect of its appeal.

Yeh, the scene where he realizes the dead girl is his daughter is very powerful. Strange that so many like Ratatouille. After half an hour or so I couldn't bear it any more and had to leave. Enormously tedious. Maybe I should have hung in there.

Absolutely! Christ, (check) don't get me started on what that did for specialization and the skill of 'gourding', which has all but disappeared. Although, evidently, there are still a few scattered villages in the Caucuses and Brittany where the craft survives to this day. There was a BBC...

Check Praxis Language for Spanishpod. I learn Chinese via the same outfit. Podcasts are free to listen to/download. And further resources are available for a price. Its not too bad.

Yes, true, I had a relatively tiny, but choice collection of dub and reggae vinyl that I sold because I knew that I was never going to build on it for exactly the reasons you speak of. That said, I also know exactly what Woebot refers too from the way I often (or used to when I had the sort of...

Here's a great comment from Woebot-LIte, Sep 27 2007. Totally otm, even if its not the whole picture.

Credit where it's due Mr Tea. ;)

Ok, I'm working myself up to it. I'll go back to Rabate and check his suggested pass through Hegel. I quite like the idea of getting a peverse reading via Kojeve. I suspect my own reading will be unintentionally perverse, in any case. As for Kant, I've a soft spot for him, not least...

And Immryr, if you're reading this I see you mention Baudrillard. I'm also reading and re-reading Forget Foucault at the moment which is one of his very early books. Its got a good introduction by Sylvere Lotringer as well as a set of interviews with Baudrillard. Lotringer says he's long felt...

According to Rabate, Kojeve never pretended to an 'accurate' reading/rendering of Hegel, rather he wanted to 'think with, and at times against him' Those last words Kojeve's himself. And to this end basically dramatised Hegel into scenes. I can't recall, exactly why, the over-emphasis - and it...

I've been reading The Future of Theory by Jean-Michel Rabate. He says above all a good grounding in Hegel will get you moving with ease through contemporary theory. At base its largely Anglo-Saxon readings of French readings (Kojeve and then later Hippolyte) of Hegel. And his listing of...

Ha. I came to this last post first. Made me laugh out loud. Thanks for restoring my sense of humor. And Noel, have you forgiven me yet, mate?

Dude, you're over reacting to a witticism, lame, or otherwise, as it might have been. I thought the reference was simple enough and likely to be picked up with relative ease. It was meant to be a friendly 'joust'. The 'scare quotes' weren't scare quotes they were there to signal a quote ie...

Not really getting the attitude, Noel.

Well, then you know what to do with the second to last day. (or maybe third, with a day to recover before that 'family stuff' :D)

'Supplements' especially over consumption.. IMDB Synopsis of Transcendent Man - the Ray Kurzweil bio... Evidently Hilary Swank pops a 100 or so a day too. That could be an exaggeration - maybe only 80, plus vitamin B injections. :mad: Oh, and the crap about bringing back his dead...

It was a Burroughs reference as it happens ;) If that's your way drugs and laughing sounds like a great last day.