So I’m reading about subject creation today putting together some words for my thesis and it struck me the efforts fundamentalist religions go to ensure adherence from their followers. Mark Poster says that a post-structuralist understanding of the subject is that the subject is never fixed or fully sutured. Of course the working of power [...]

I received the feedback sheets for my honours presentation yesterday. I just wonder how two of the examiners could observe the same presentation and come to such diverse conclusions. Here’s a little of what they had to say. On the matter of the presentation of a critical argument or rationale: “Candidate does not appear to [...]

I started writing today. A tentative beginning dipping my toe into powerful waters thus: I turn my attention now to how Foucault’s theories of the emergence of power, found in The subject and power, help explain the processes which led to Armstrong being fired. I’m planning to show how commercial and legal discourses provide explanations [...]

While I’m on the subject I’ll start with tidying up the introduction I’ve already written. At least if I know what I’m going to argue it’ll make my job a little easier. I’ll then tidy up the piece I wrote about surveillance and then move onto power and subjectivity.

I was going to take some time off between first and second semester. Now instead I’m going to start writing on Tuesday. My plan is to write a paragraph a day (about 250 words) for 5 days a week. In 12 weeks I’ll have my thesis written. It’s a simple plan but one I’m confident [...]