Conservative reactionaries have in the past 10 years or so made careers out of accusing college professors of indoctrinating students in radical leftist philosophies and politics. While riding the bus today, however, I began to wonder if perhaps it's not the professors but the experience itself of actually being a student which draws middle class ( Read more... )

Reading Foucault makes me feel happy. I've had to struggle all weekend through a most difficult book (in terms of keeping my interest) about a recently retired doctor who is spending his retirement studying Flaubert. And to boot, I have to give a presentation and write a mini-paper on it. Until about 5 minutes ago, I was completely ambivalent ( Read more... )

Ah, coffee, you are my one, true friend during such trying times. Now that I've purchased a French Press, you're an even better friend to me. Well, a more delicious friend, anyway ( Read more... )

Between wrestling with Kant and trying to piece together a view of ideology that adequately explains the symbolism of Joe Christmas' death at the end of Light in August, I'm definitely feeling quite "fagged out ( Read more... )

Looks like Kant and Faulkner are going to be my two best buddies for the next 3 weeks or so.

Too bad I can't go out drinking with them.

In my literary theory class today I explored Marxism on an entirely new level ( Read more... )

Mainly because he says things like this:

"Capital in fact has never been linked by a contract to the society it dominates. It is a sorcery of the social relation, and it is a challenge to society and should be responded to as such ( Read more... )