Recent sidetracking / progress

jackson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:10:15 +0000

So much for getting back into the habit of “blogging”. So much, also, for the promises of new reviews, thoughts, comments, and readings. I have not, of late, had quite the slew of time for which I had hoped, and that which I have been afforded was spent in ways previously unanticipated. What I have accomplished thought, is some work on a new piece of “software”–a little mysql/php-based teaching application, inspired by the illustrious pauker, and based loosely on the same Leitner cardfile method, but more adapted to my needs as a student more readily prone to a Deweyian process of education than the tedium of memorization.

In other news, I have actually begun my reviews of the Dead Science album and Appiah’s book, but both are incomplete. My venture into Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding has also begun, but I may set it aside now that I have acquired a few new postanalytical philosophy works. Critchley was not uninformative. Though the first 20 pages or so of his work it seemed to me held nothing particularly cogent except that which was a mere reformulation of Levinas, it seemed to simply be an attempt to come to terms in order to make a clearer point later in the work, and I will be eager to later resume my reading of Infinitely Demanding. However, I have an alluring idea for a sustained study of postanalytic philosophy. If this study bears any fruit, I will describe it later.

New reading, new reviews on the way

jackson — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:57:41 +0000

I’ve decided that a couple of things that I’ve recently read and heard deserve a good review. I eventually hope to put up somewhat in-depth reviews of Anthony T. Kronman’s book Education’s End, an actual review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Experiments in Ethics, and The Dead Science’s latest album Villainaire. If I get enough time (not likely) I’d like to eventually compose some reviews for a few other records and readings that I completed this summer, particularly the readings on Eastern religions, terrorism, a few things from Richard Rorty, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. If, for some strange, new, and unforseen reason, I am allowed any time aside from my studies, I would also be eager to put up a few mentions that I have on some recently discovered films and albums, of which Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville and recordings from The Azusa Plane and Randy Grief come immediately to mind.

While I am at it, I might start posting a few random things on the progression of my thoughts and ideas in general, as that was one of the original bases for my posting here.

I am going to attempt to read from a little collection of Quine papers, and I shall hopefully soon make some headway in the Simon Critchley book, Infinitely Demanding, on which I just got my hands.

peace.

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Recent sidetracking / progress

New reading, new reviews on the way