I graduated last night. I’m a bit chuffed.
If you want to read my honours thesis you can find it here.
I started my honours thesis in June of this year and it’s now almost complete. My desk remains a mess while I tidy up loose ends, making sure that chapters and paragraphs connect to one another in a way that makes sense. My supervisor has been a great help showing me where my work needs [...]
A post on dooce entitled I Have Something to Say is a useful example of parrhesia. Here we find Armstrong speaking truth in the form of a criticism – of both herself and others – which involves a level of risk to the speaker. It’s not a risk of life and death so much as [...]
I’ve cracked the 12 000 word barrier. Although that’s not quite accurate count as the count includes references and block quotes it’s still a milestone. If I wanted to hand my thesis in now I could. I just wouldn’t get a flash mark. Onward and sideways.
Unedited; please read forgivingly for I have transgressed. God is described by Peter Bebergal as “the supreme referent” and the death of god, then, is the removal of this supreme referent. which gives rise to the question; what provides identity to the body without the existence of the supreme referent? Transgression then is the interrogation [...]
Here I am attempting to get a handle on Battaille’s concept (as it’s read by Foucault) of transgression and the death of god. Garth Gillan states: “the concept of transgression says that meaning is confronted not as an absolute transcendence grounding language, but in the limits of meaning. Language is the existence of sense in [...]