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 improvement [...]
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 [...]
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.
I’m working on a concept proposed by Battaile that transgression, limits, and the death of god are connected. A friend sent me a link to a post on Larval Subjects, some of which I quote here.
“As such, the death of God signifies first and most fundamentally the end of the primacy of the One in [...]
I crossed a threshold yesterday. I’m now over the 10 000 word hurdle. It’s kind of funny because I’m now getting concerned that I’m not going to fit everything in.
I read an article last week that had me a bit excited about the intersection of transgression and subjectivity. In particular this idea of the death [...]
