my project makes me cry
Mar. 22nd, 2005 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhyll'cos. 1) i am so fucking kickass at political theory. not, like, move over iris marion young, i am new queen. but i am at least fairly good at it. so i revise to: i am so...more-than-adequate at political theory. and i love it. i really do. finding inherent contradictions and such.
but, 2) i feel some obligation to be doing work that is useful, and relevant. and while political theory can be, i can't find an area that particularly cries out that it's worthwhile.
and then there are all these other problems, like - i made up my topic the night before it was due, and said i would do something about activism and technology. but...i don't want to do more stuff on the developed world, and i definitely don't want to do more stuff on the internet. and so i want to do something on the developing world, and particularly on marginalised groups, but i want it to be something more than 'oh, look at that, they're pretty screwed in the worldwide scheme of things, huh?' and i also don't want it to be just talking about one or two projects and saying 'lookit! it's cool!'.
so i'm feeling very unfocused.
and it makes me do even less work than i'd usually do.
argh.
but, 2) i feel some obligation to be doing work that is useful, and relevant. and while political theory can be, i can't find an area that particularly cries out that it's worthwhile.
and then there are all these other problems, like - i made up my topic the night before it was due, and said i would do something about activism and technology. but...i don't want to do more stuff on the developed world, and i definitely don't want to do more stuff on the internet. and so i want to do something on the developing world, and particularly on marginalised groups, but i want it to be something more than 'oh, look at that, they're pretty screwed in the worldwide scheme of things, huh?' and i also don't want it to be just talking about one or two projects and saying 'lookit! it's cool!'.
so i'm feeling very unfocused.
and it makes me do even less work than i'd usually do.
argh.