Lee Konstantinou
I have been a terrible and negligent blogger this summer. I am back in the United States and I have hardly written about my stay in Europe. Mostly, this is because I didn’t do very much this summer. Highlights include a trip to Berlin (first time, awesome city) and Denmark. I visited Denmark to get … Continue reading Back in the U.S.
So my plan today was to get on an EasyJet flight at Gatwick and visit my friend Sarah in Berlin for 6 days or so. That’s not going to happen now. After I learned of the plot to blow up British planes going to NY, I went to the easyjet web site and found that … Continue reading Going to Germany–Not
Hey from (somewhat sunny) London where I doing research at the British Library, like last year, except this year I’m living in an apartment I’m subletting near Russell Square, which is like 5 minutes on foot from the British Library. This proximity has made my life here blissfully convenient; all of down-town London is walkable … Continue reading 07/07 in Russell Square
The title of this post is something of a misnomer given the obvious fact that blogging is usually never any kind of priority for me except during the summer or when I travel. Given that I’m again going to be away from the U.S. for two months this summer (this time, mostly in London), I … Continue reading Blogging Priorities
The MLA special session that I played a part in organizing was accepted. The panel–which promises to be very exciting and break some new ground–is called “Postirony in Theory and Fiction.” The text of the panel proposal follows: “The virus of irony is as widespread in California as herpes, and once you’re infected with it, … Continue reading Yah!
Now for a word from the realm of politics. Wondering if you’ve all been following this New Yorker article which suggests that the Bush II administration intends to use nukes against Iran. For some reason–I am sure you can’t imagine why–I find this story really, really unsettling. For 60 years the nuclear genie has been … Continue reading Humanity is something to destroy
Tomorrow’s the Stanford-Berkeley Conference, an annual get-together of Stanford and Berkeley grad students to present their work in a, hm, safe and nurturing environment. I’m whipping up , right this moment, what may be my first official piece of writing for my dissertation. It is also a piece that I want to use, in a … Continue reading Stanford-Berkeley Conference
I am at a point in my dissertation-writing process where I am going to begin (on Monday) writing my first diss. chapter. Initially, I’ll write a conference paper for the upcoming Stanford-Berkeley graduate student conference. This’ll be on co-optation in a novel called The Savage Girl. Then, I’ll fuse this conference paper with a previous … Continue reading Structure, structure, structure
I am at a point in my dissertation-writing process where I am going to begin (on Monday) writing my first diss. chapter. Initially, I’ll write a conference paper for the upcoming Stanford-Berkeley graduate student conference. This’ll be on co-optation in a novel called The Savage Girl. Then, I’ll fuse this conference paper with a previous … Continue reading Structure, structure, structure
I just finished reading Fredric Jameson’s A Singular Modernity: An Essay on the Ontology of the Present. Like a lot stuff that Jameson writes, this book is both fascinating and infuriatingly vague at key moments in its argument. This vagueness might be justified as a form of “dialectical” writing, which I enjoy at the level … Continue reading Ontologies of the Present