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[rhyll]

I am kind of stressed about uni right now - it feels like even when I'm working I should be working more - but I'm getting interested in my work again and I've had some ideas about how to structure the first few chapters so that they work better, and I've been reading some interesting theory and some Hakim Bey stuff (including bits about pirates!)

And I think that I might manage to get all the work that I want to do done, as long as I work steadily at it for the next couple of months.

I'm going to try to work hard when I am working, and start going to capoeira again, and find some time to make the papercraft camera I've been wondering about for the last few days, and start the art project I've been thinking about, and make up some flyers for the **Art not Ads** thing. I also think that **Art not Ads** should have a website. I am not sure if I'll find time to make one, though.

All in all, I'm not too upset with my life right now.

Also: it seems that jarrad may have been correct about ipods. Admittedly, this comes as precisely nothing of a shock.

Comments

[boxer-the-horse.livejournal.com]

I get to be right because Sky didn't explicitly disagree with me at first!

[mark-hamster.livejournal.com]

Hi. I saw your question and link to Hakim Bey's essay on Boofuls site and was quite interested. I thought I'd give you my reaction - don't feel bad if you can't be bothered reading it :)

He seems to want to find a middle-ground between Chomsky and a kind of 'nihilism' but, imho, at some point he'll have to come back to one or the other. Either the structures that emerge from chaos have an independent existence, in which case you would move towards structuralism, or they are just contingent empirical phenomena that are liable to change over time, in which case you go poststructuralist. He seems to be leaning toward the latter, but wants to use chaos theory to add his own special bent on things.

I guess, as an empirical accompaniment to a theory of language, it would work - searching for the similarities and constants that poststructuralist theory tends to put to one side - but in his last remarks about freedom and tyranny Bey seems to be making a much stronger point. I can't fathom what he's on about there, except to say it sounds like a misplaced stab at Nietzsche.

Well, hope that helps some.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

Thank you. At some point, when I am less tired, I will read that again and hopefully my brain will kick in and it will make sense :)

[mark-hamster.livejournal.com]

I think Boofuls summed it up okay on her site, too. ;)