writing (out) frustration

this will be my last post about the semester. it would’ve been nice to go out on a higher note, but maybe more honest this way. not a bang but a whimper, this is how ends now occur. “the hollow men” was post-”wasteland” – the rats’ alley (115) at least demonstrated a certain movement and [...]

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continental drift

or, “letting conservatism loose” before again schoolwriting, hoping against hope to be done on tuesday:
as distraction (dis-traction, except that i was barely making inroads as it was, driving a creaking diesel ford 5000 from the early 70s) – i’ll have to remember to file this post under ‘narcissism’ (the glowing laptop monitor my pool of [...]

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070409

i’ve joked about this, confessing my commitment issues viz. this semester, that i’d jump at the opportunity to skip town or do important things that weren’t subordinate to that regime of exercises and disciplines. now it is april and the humour has evaporated. but knowing the incredibly foolish inevitable repercussions doesn’t help. nor does incurring [...]

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grit

summer08
phil250 – ethics
phil120 – symbolic logic
fall08
hist489 – “‘aboriginality’ in europe: nativism and racism in national discourses from antiquity to present”, 1-credit proseminar, gow
hist420 – “jews in europe”, gow
psyco104 – “intro to psychology”
engl224 – “the literary institution”, zwicker
hist498/604 – “application of the social sciences to history”, bracken
phil481 – “philosophy, poetry, politics”, morin
relig200 – “the discipline of [...]

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for lack of a better

in the first week the(/we?) theoryheads jostle for position. straining at the bit. the most outrageous namedropping happens in this week with the need to locate oneself.
have realized it is not a coincidence that i enjoy my history and english classes more than the strictly theory classes. but this is not a realization i could [...]

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forecasting

welcome back, everybody. or something like that.
my approach to the slackerdom undercurrent of the undergraduate subculture at the university of alberta is to beat it out of you. you can relax when you retire or when you’re dead. you’ll thank me when you’re sixty-five and have children of your own.

- bracken, on wednesday.
barakah, the kitten [...]

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metaconfession

(completed, now. it is uber-long because the post has been coming for months. and i now feel kind of ashamed for writing so much about myself. but.)
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this story has to begin with words. not with langue or parole but with words, actual words, in all their messy, glorious, recalcitrant and compliant materiality, and with their [...]

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last paper of the summer

extra points to the first person to call me normatively confused.
That collective resistance is based on communication is a truism. Western activist circles are still rife (albeit with a certain nostalgia) with the vocabulary of “collectivizing” and “solidarity”; these coalitions often establish their commonalities and mutual aims on the basis of confessional communication. The notion [...]

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confessional

b: i discovered something last night. it is this:
b: theory camp is draining. there.
b: no, i do not mean it like that. i sorted papers yesterday, till about 2am, all the paper and graphite and ink i have collected for past years of my life. and do you know? on pages that had nothing to [...]

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clouds rising

so i believe i might finish today, bi idhnih.
As I further explored the widely-diverging accounts of both the events at Münster  and of Anabaptist origins in general, I began to see “Münster” as integral to understanding historians’ constructions of Anabaptism. How an historian approaches “Münster” will be congruent with her wider view of Anabaptism and [...]

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