Recent sidetracking / progress

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.