So I finally did myself a favor by fracturing my blog. I realized that I stopped coming here because I couldn't stand trying to maintain a semblance of a whole, entire person/theme/idea/reality. So, anything related to work, finance, corporate America--that will be going over here from now on.
As for now, this will resume being my personal place. My home away from the academy, and work.
Though, as I sit here and listen to my "study" soundtrack that I spent countless nights listening to in coffee shops throughout berkeley, it's hard to find myself too far away. There's something very soothing about the sweeping nostalgia of a friday night at The Village Grounds, pouring over the words of Derrida, or Wolin, Wittgenstein, or Cavell, thinking to myself that this is it, these are the words I have been missing. And then I start to read Connolly (and his furthering of the idea of an accelerated democratic life) and I realize how slow I was at keeping up.
But perhaps there is a fix to that as well.
I'm still looking at the 20-30 club here in Redding. Oh, but I am torn between that and Leadership Redding. Both look like good opportunities to get back into the flow of things that I've missed durring my academic sabatical.
A nice passage from Connolly quoting Nietzche:
"For what is dying out is the fundamental faith that would enable us to calculate, to promsie, to anticipate the future...namely, the faith that man has meaning only insofar as he is a stone in a great edifice. What will not be built anymore henceforth, and cannot be built anymore is...a society in the old sense of that word; to build that everything is lacking. Above all the matieral. All of us are no longer material for a society: this is a truth for which the time has come.
Mmm....goosebumps.
As for now, this will resume being my personal place. My home away from the academy, and work.
Though, as I sit here and listen to my "study" soundtrack that I spent countless nights listening to in coffee shops throughout berkeley, it's hard to find myself too far away. There's something very soothing about the sweeping nostalgia of a friday night at The Village Grounds, pouring over the words of Derrida, or Wolin, Wittgenstein, or Cavell, thinking to myself that this is it, these are the words I have been missing. And then I start to read Connolly (and his furthering of the idea of an accelerated democratic life) and I realize how slow I was at keeping up.
But perhaps there is a fix to that as well.
I'm still looking at the 20-30 club here in Redding. Oh, but I am torn between that and Leadership Redding. Both look like good opportunities to get back into the flow of things that I've missed durring my academic sabatical.
A nice passage from Connolly quoting Nietzche:
"For what is dying out is the fundamental faith that would enable us to calculate, to promsie, to anticipate the future...namely, the faith that man has meaning only insofar as he is a stone in a great edifice. What will not be built anymore henceforth, and cannot be built anymore is...a society in the old sense of that word; to build that everything is lacking. Above all the matieral. All of us are no longer material for a society: this is a truth for which the time has come.
Mmm....goosebumps.
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