http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com A working notebook Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:14:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay so I know I said I wasn’t fucking around anymore but sometimes I can’t help it, too often actually but I’d like to think that some of this sometimes is good for me and not in just a letting off steam sort of way but in a makes me ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/28/garden-path-sentence-might-start-with-what-in-the-hell/ *sigh* The “what it the hell elipse question” thing was meant to help me avoid the need to come up with titles but sometimes I can’t come up with a question to come after the elipse. Same problem as trying to come up with a title. Annoying. I finished reading Hamerquist’s Althusser ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/24/would-i-uh/ My new rule is that I don’t reply to electronic communications in which there is some disagreement until I have let 48 hours pass then I have read them a second time, unless it’s a decision making issue and time is important. http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/18/is-my-new-rule/ I recently stumbled onto the wikipedia entry for “garden path sentences.” Here’s an example of a garden path sentence from that entry: The old man the boat. Here’s another: The horse raced past the barn fell. There’s more. Reading the above two at first sort made the inside of my head throb (it made ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/15/are-mental-pushups/ Funny enough, a number of blogs that I read only very occasionally but regularly, if that makes sense, have had a big wide-ranging discussion about ontology and politics at the same time as I’ve gotten into an argument with some friends in my offline life about this very same subject, ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/14/justifies-turning-conversation-toward-ontology/ I’ve been meaning for a long time go back and read the three part Aufheben article on decadence theory. (This piece played a role in Aufheben’s exchange with Theorie Communiste, which I’ve still not read except in a very cursory fashion.) One of these days (after ch25 of Capital! and ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/14/is-autonomist-decadence-theory/ This is a slightly edited and expanded version of what I said in my notes, about Ignatiev’s piece as part of the Hamerquist Lenin discussion. I tried to post it as a comment over there but it didn’t work so I’m posting it here. Ignatiev’s piece is about CLR James ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/05/did-i-think-of-ignatievs-piece/ Trick question. It’s a self-evident good. A shibboleth, if you will. One of the worst things about having a dog is having to walk the dog. It’s a pain, constantly having to take the dog out. (By ‘constantly’ I mean like a few times a day really.) One of ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/is-so-great-about-beer-by-the-lake/ Another post consisting of notes written in bits and pieces over much time which means I’ll need to review it when I’m done and try to write a a summing up. This is all I’m capable of much of the time anymore. Still need to write one of these on ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/does-hamerquist-have-to-say-about-althusser/ I want to point out two great posts at Gathering Forces, about Lenin. There’s this one and then there’s this other one, the second is in response to Don Hamerquist’s essay. I still don’t feel equipped to assess claims about Lenin’s relative importance compared to other possible thinkers to think ... http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2009/10/29/is-the-use-of-lenin/