So, I got the keys to the new apartment yesterday.
I've started moving things (about 3 stacks of books so far) as I need to figure out where to put things. I have also started to go thru my papers and the stuff I have in my desk. In onw of the drawers, I found a big stack of cds I'd burned which contain the backup of many, many files. So I copied them to the harddrive of Minerva in order to burn them on dvds (10 cds vs 2 dvds...) and among them I found files I thought I had lost. I found my thesis, which I thought I only had in paper format now, and my term paper on Utopias and Dystopias. I read the latter, and boy, do I impress myself. I can see how stunted I am academically now, after having had to scale down everything in order to teach my classes. If I ever win the lottery, i am definitely going to go for my doctorate - I would love to be able to dig into subjects like that again, and expand my horizons academically.
"In their essay “On Literature as an Ideological Form,” Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, two Marxist post-structuralist critics, claim that “the historical materialist concept does not refer to ‘form’ in opposition to ‘content’, but to the objective coherence of the ideological formation” (Balibar and Macherey 82). Firstly, I will look at this statement, and try to interpret it. Secondly, I will contextualize it, looking at other theories and fellow critics of Balibar & Macherey. Furthermore, I will try to see if the statement holds water by looking at utopian fiction both synchronically and diachronically. Synchronically, by seeing if the form of the works, taking as my examples Thomas More’s Utopia, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, has been influenced by the period in which they were written. Then diachronically, by determining if the utopian tradition has changed in response to the development in society."
Oh, how nostalgic one gets......
"In their essay “On Literature as an Ideological Form,” Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, two Marxist post-structuralist critics, claim that “the historical materialist concept does not refer to ‘form’ in opposition to ‘content’, but to the objective coherence of the ideological formation” (Balibar and Macherey 82). Firstly, I will look at this statement, and try to interpret it. Secondly, I will contextualize it, looking at other theories and fellow critics of Balibar & Macherey. Furthermore, I will try to see if the statement holds water by looking at utopian fiction both synchronically and diachronically. Synchronically, by seeing if the form of the works, taking as my examples Thomas More’s Utopia, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, has been influenced by the period in which they were written. Then diachronically, by determining if the utopian tradition has changed in response to the development in society."
Oh, how nostalgic one gets......