Sarahel's Semiotics 4U

zizek is many shades of awesome imo

willing to give him a shot.

i am fond of the zizz despite his habit of inventing antagonists who only about exist in the realms of plausibility (see: the leftist supporters of ahmadinejad in his recent lrb article (while his political writing is not his critical writing they share as it were tendencies)) but his books so far have been fairy gold for me-- they seem substantial while in front of your eyes but when you put them aside your brain is no fuller than when you started.

personal fave is the puppet and the dwarf fyi, there's a lot of repetition between books tho

promising title.

oh yeah all his books are the same. i like him iirc. his writing style can be really, really, really annoying though. "is this not the x of y?" over and over

I like Barthes and Eco's essays a lot. The more heavy theory stuff still gives me master's thesis flashbacks ... the instinct to look for succinct quotes, etc.

i like barthes. mythologies is one of my favorite books ever, v fun read. i am trying to remember what zizek to read though, i think the first i read was welcome to the desert of the real, which is not very heavy.

last year i was reading "for they know not what they do," and i didn't finish bc long book is long

mythologies is great. Eco's Travels in Hyperreality is also awesome.

zizek bugbear is making up his own meanings for words and juggling them back with established meanings without telling you cf jouissance

those sexy europeans

what's his alterna-meaning?

that movie about him really made Ljubljana seem like a top holiday destination too

what's his alterna-meaning?

― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:45 AM (26 seconds ago)

don't remember tbh

full disclosure, i've spent the last three days reading like fifteen pages of wittgenstein's the blue notebook, I figure my brain has turned to mush at this point

xp - this reminds me of a story: about a year ago, I was at a club show with a friend of mine who is half Slovenian. She was extremely drunk and was going on about how Slovenia has a negative birth rate and a very high suicide rate. We then started chatting with this younger guy we knew who was there -- quiet midwestern type -- and it turned out he was also part Slovenian. She then proceeded to tell him that it essential that he needed to find a woman to bear his Slovenian babies.

hot come-on

http://www.filosofia.com.mx/images/uploads/jaquemate5peirce.jpg

how do yall feel about Peirce btw

kinda wish i lived in that male-grooming era

im a bad student because im basically swayed by whatever im reading at any given moment

or maybe that makes me a good student

she also kept going on about Wilford Brimley in connection with this

xp she was/is very much taken, and the younger guy is a big fan of her bf/now husband's old band. I don't think she was coming onto him, but maybe he said he was part Slovenian as a means of coming onto her ...

longtime readers of this board will know that the two loves of my undergraduate intellectual life are the very predictable white broctor of philosophy favorites nietzsche and derrida

this thread is making me feel v. retarded and under-educated with my painting degree

"do you have any Slovenian in you?"

"as a matter of fact I do"

"oh"

tbh not going to grad school was a great decision for the time being because instead of feeling retarded and undereducated around a lot of pomo asswipes i feel overeducated, or educated in the wrong way, around a lot of people who dont give a shit

xxxxxp i am like that too max. it's ok though. as long as you read lots of different things, that's what i tell myself

that's ok ... I feel v. retarded and under-educated in discussions of painting.

thanks harbl

this thread is making me feel v. retarded and under-educated with my painting english lolterature degree

guys i have a math degree

my better half has a painting degree ... we were watching a crappy foreign horror movie last night with a scene in an art museum. I made some joke about pre-raphaelites, and he said, "Actually that would either be mannerism or early romanticism."

tbh i'm pretty delighted to be understanding and having opinions about things. Like I have no academic background to speak of, kinda thinking of doing a second degree since I'm debt free and its recession time.

I hear that ... for a while I was seriously consider Lol-law school.

consider-ing ... I'm good at memorizing crap.

other options are doing a post-grad diploma and then grad school

haha harbl u have a math degree??? once i took a class called women in mathematics, you were not featured

harbl, a math degree is way more awes than an eng lit degree...this is something i have realised only latterly (although i do not flat-out regret my choice of course)

oh and next month i'm starting an MA in science journalism btw, just thought i might drop that one while we're about it

science journalism i am surprised honestly

i am no longer a woman in mathematics, that could be why. or maybe it was a mistake.

I sucked at science ... probably the only thing I was suckier at in school was welding.

i sucked at chemistry but i was like genius in physics

lol i loved welding in hs shop class! i would like to do more of it tbh

harbl - if you were my dad's child, he would have been very happy. He was sad I didn't major in math, like him, his sister, his father ...

For a while I got into doing sudoku puzzles (which my dad is a real big fan of) because I felt guilty that we had so little in common ...I didn't major in math, I'm not interested in sports, etc.

sarahel i would not have guessed you don't like sports

i was good at science but the curriculum was terrible and unstimulating so i gave it up before the last 2 years

this application has everything to do with the fact that it's one of the best journalism schools in britain, and little to do with the specific area, although it is a very interesting one. i initially applied for newspaper journalism but didn't have the requisite experience. my application was passed onto the science journo folks who were all 'plz join our shiny brand new course' and i did not have the heart to say no ^_^

anyway enuff thread derail, plz proceed w/ whatever we were proceeding w/

omg my dad is a massive sudoku buff, it irritates me intensely tbh

also if i was given a welding torch, bad bad bad badness would occur maybe

my dad really likes sports. I played tennis in HS to get out of phys. ed., and my dad went to almost all my matches. I was pretty lousy because I practiced as little as possible because I didn't care. Years later, my mom was telling me how she felt guilty that she worked too much and didn't go to any of my tennis matches. I told her that she shouldn't feel guilty, because I didn't care very much about them, either. All I cared about was that tennis season lasted only three months, and the other six months I didn't have to do jack shit as far as P.E. went. I just had to let the coach know if I wasn't going to be at school that day, so she could mark me absent.