Oh !@#$%, it’s Sunday night?!

A familiar Thanksgiving ritual, which I’ve followed since my college days, is making a solemn promise about how much work I’ll do over the holiday, and realizing the Sunday evening before vacation’s end how little of that work I actually managed to accomplish. It’s a quirk of behavior that I still really don’t quite understand. [...]

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Identity and Control II

In a moment of brash confidence a couple of days ago, I bought - or re-bought, to be more accurate - Harrison White’s Identity and Control. I’d sold my original copy many years ago, having given up reading this famously difficult book after an initial series of futile attempts at comprehension. But, that was then [...]

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Complexity of Art

I went to a talk given a few days ago by Richard Jochum, an artist / philosopher / educator from Austria who’s been a visiting scholar here for the past two or three years now. His lecture, on ‘Understanding Contemporary Art,’ was really quite fascinating: accessible to persons like myself - who have little background [...]

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Clue

As an older graduate student who returned to doctoral studies after a significant period of time away from the student role, I realize that by the time I finish my dissertation I’ll probably be ready to collect my Social Security checks. While I know that this places certain limitations on my future vocational options, this [...]

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You need a BA to be here

I’m poaching more material from Rough Theory.
Speaking of world rankings, it’s no surprise to me that N. Pepperell’s blog has been rated ‘genius’ level reading. But I’m satisfied with the designation of my blog as college-undergraduate material, which is more than acceptable given how slapdash many of my entries are. Frankly, I think that [...]

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