Posted in forwarding on, poesy on March 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“i can read you like a facebook” – adnan. this made me laugh. a lot.
“the nice thing about being backed into a corner is that you can see everything that’s aimed at you.” – javed
shadows of birds in flight – fathima
ubuntu – yasmine. read this post.
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1. work-at-school.
2. work-at-home.
Posted in discourses, living on March 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
that we inhabit the same worlds has a terrible (terrifying?) weight.
“but /do/ we,” a few months ago i would have asked. it was the morning seminar on lugones, i think, at piksi last july, and i came out strongly against the idea we can ever ‘truly’ world-travel. our languages so deeply rooted, so particular, so [...]
Posted in academese, discourses on March 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
it is now almost maghrib-time. today i spent two hours outside reading under a tree, where the sun was warm and i got leaves in my hair.
last night i started geneologies of religion: discipline and reasons of power in christianity and islam. i haven’t enjoyed an academic-type read this much in a while. his argument, [...]
Posted in gloria, living on March 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
this morning usman and i went to go find pussywillows. it is a ritual of spring: we put on rubber boots and journey down the hill smelling of moist earth and creosote with some pruning shears, splash through deepening puddles and cross the road to the nature reserve. it is a plot of land set [...]
Posted in gloria on March 19, 2007 | 9 Comments »
In March 2005, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox met in Waco, Texas to ratify the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP takes the goal of continental economic integration much further by including security and foreign policy issues, and by speeding up [...]
Posted in miscellany on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
some weeks ago i had a list of what i eventually want to read. this though is what i am currently in the middle of, and hope to finish some week soon. they are spread across months, some of these. the bad part is that they might be useful for papers i am writing, but [...]
Posted in miscellany on March 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
the new hirees in continental and ethics are announced.
a few days ago i listened to strauss’ “tod und verklärung” (op. 24), which is translated into englisch as “death and transfiguration”. erklären, though, is the process of clarification. death as clarifying, then, and the ahadith (traditions of the prophet) comparing the life of this world to [...]
Posted in living on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
if suspicious you may call this a feel-good mechanism after handing in a paper which made me ashamed to do so (daniel: “it’s like handing in a broken-stringed guitar”). however:
am at a state where i’m…managing. i’m not caught up on readings, but i’m not drowning either (yet); deadlines are looming, but i may actually meet [...]
Posted in discourses on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
a liberal culture underwrites moral indifference. it makes much room for the bystander to suffering. and this is perhaps not so surprising. for the principal economic formation historically associated with liberalism, defended by liberals – whether confidently or apologetically – today as much as ever, is one in which it has been the norm for [...]
Posted in gloria on March 8, 2007 | 12 Comments »
