Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Also, re: the below necklaces:
The one that was highly preferred:
Forever 21, approx $9
The one that was not approved:
Anthropologie, approx $50
However; what is perhaps most interesting is that at least part of this is photography; I looked at both at them and the one from Anthro is definitely a lot nicer (the Forever 21 necklace basically looks like junk, which basically it is). But Anthro has that weird extra long chain. Not surprisingly, I haven't actually bought either one. But at least this kind of relieves my mind that there definitely IS an improvement over Forever 21 at Anthro, even if it's not quite as much as one would hope.
The one that was highly preferred:
Forever 21, approx $9
The one that was not approved:
Anthropologie, approx $50
However; what is perhaps most interesting is that at least part of this is photography; I looked at both at them and the one from Anthro is definitely a lot nicer (the Forever 21 necklace basically looks like junk, which basically it is). But Anthro has that weird extra long chain. Not surprisingly, I haven't actually bought either one. But at least this kind of relieves my mind that there definitely IS an improvement over Forever 21 at Anthro, even if it's not quite as much as one would hope.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Weird academic papers:
(I probably shouldn't put this on my blog in case someone from the department is stalking me. . . but such a classic example of academic bizarreness!).
Carnivorous Virility, or Becoming-Dog
*Monday, November 16, 2009* Please note date!
3:00-5:00pm
Humanities Instructional Building
Room 135
This paper argues for a queering of temporality that would undo our
nationally circumscribed and periodized fields of literary study in order to
work through topoi--discursive commonplaces--that haunt texts across
historical eras. Prof. Freccero's case study involves cyanothropy, the
merger of human and dog; it takes as its starting point the Columbian New
World encounter, from reports of dog-headed cannibals to accounts of the
devouring dog as the ubiquitous companion/weapon of Spanish colonizers; and
concludes with the attack of Diane Whipple by two Presa Canarios in San
Francisco in 2001. The symptomatic figure--itself already haunted by long
histories--repeats itself, travels between and among subjects and objects,
and condenses in itself a whole series of New and Old World meanings, from
companion to cannibal, primitive savage to savagely civilizational. Prof.
Feccero wants to argue that in order to understand the historical and
affective work such figures do, we must make use of fantasmatic
historiographies whose temporalities resemble psychoanalytic understandings
of the working of time as subjectivity and affect more than they do the time
of progressive history
(I probably shouldn't put this on my blog in case someone from the department is stalking me. . . but such a classic example of academic bizarreness!).
Carnivorous Virility, or Becoming-Dog
*Monday, November 16, 2009* Please note date!
3:00-5:00pm
Humanities Instructional Building
Room 135
This paper argues for a queering of temporality that would undo our
nationally circumscribed and periodized fields of literary study in order to
work through topoi--discursive commonplaces--that haunt texts across
historical eras. Prof. Freccero's case study involves cyanothropy, the
merger of human and dog; it takes as its starting point the Columbian New
World encounter, from reports of dog-headed cannibals to accounts of the
devouring dog as the ubiquitous companion/weapon of Spanish colonizers; and
concludes with the attack of Diane Whipple by two Presa Canarios in San
Francisco in 2001. The symptomatic figure--itself already haunted by long
histories--repeats itself, travels between and among subjects and objects,
and condenses in itself a whole series of New and Old World meanings, from
companion to cannibal, primitive savage to savagely civilizational. Prof.
Feccero wants to argue that in order to understand the historical and
affective work such figures do, we must make use of fantasmatic
historiographies whose temporalities resemble psychoanalytic understandings
of the working of time as subjectivity and affect more than they do the time
of progressive history
Friday, November 13, 2009
Urban Outfitters is selling a Twilight t-shirt??
Team Edward T-shirt
I think they have officially become un-hipster. If UO ever was hipster, which has yet to be clear to me to begin with (hipster? hipster wanna-be? hipster wanna-be by definition being hipster anyway?).
But NO, NO, I DON'T prefer the stone-cold sparkly variety!
Team Edward T-shirt
I think they have officially become un-hipster. If UO ever was hipster, which has yet to be clear to me to begin with (hipster? hipster wanna-be? hipster wanna-be by definition being hipster anyway?).
But NO, NO, I DON'T prefer the stone-cold sparkly variety!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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