Well, my massive reading project pretty much completely stalled over Spring break. (That's what working 50 hours a week will do.) I only got through one of my initial four books. I'm not terribly surprised, but ah well...
My schedule is pretty busy for this term as well, so I don't really expect to have a lot of free time to devote to pleasure reading. That being said, I do have quite a bit of reading to do for school, so I figure I might as well try to make a habit out of blogging about that.
This term, I'm taking:
A course on the history of ancient philosophy. (Reading: Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics.)
A general lit crit course... Basically just an overview of a lot of stuff I've picked up indirectly. (Reading: Rivkin and Ryan's Literary Theory: An Anthology. A text that, I might add, strikes me as quite absurd. Heidegger in a page and a half? Why bother including him at all?)
A seminar on race and spatial regimes. (Reading: For the moment, Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States.)
And my final Soc course... Globalization. (Reading: McMichael's Development and Social Change... A text so rooted in identity politics that I wish I hadn't listened to all those Žižek lectures.)
I have high hopes for my phil course (took Philosophy of Social Science with the same professor... very rigorous and challenging) and my seminar. The other two... Meh. I suppose I should be thankful that they require so little.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
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