(3:41 PM) | Adam Kotsko:

My Many Remarkable Accomplishments: Taking Stock

This summer, I have done the following work related to academia:

1. Begun to learn French.
   
2. Substantially rewritten and expanded my paper on Empire and submitted it for publication to the Chicago Theological Seminary Register.
   
3. Submitted my Bonhoeffer paper to the Journal of the American Academy of Religion; they sent me an e-mail saying that they have a two-year backlog of papers to publish and wouldn't be able to get to mine until March 2006, assuming they accepted it; I withdrew my submission.
   
4. Submitted my Bonhoeffer paper to Theology Today.
   
5. Read the following books: Thomas Frank, One Market Under God; Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul; Slavoj Žižek, Organs without Bodies; Michael Bérubé, The Employment of English; Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow (forthcoming, projected completion date: July 5, 2004).

1. Write a paper on Derrida and the love of ruins (due: September 2004 at the latest).
   
2. Read an anthology of Wesley's sermons and a variety of secondary works on Wesley.
   
3. Read Badiou's Ethics and other works (perhaps even some in French).
   
4. Write a paper on Wesley and Badiou for the Wesleyan Theological Society -- and if you steal my idea, I will fucking kill you. I put my paper ideas out here on my blog because I trust you people, but if you steal my idea, I will fucking kill you.
   
5. Read an article and a book on theological language and "biblical concepts" to enhance my paper on Moltmann's critique of Barth, then submit said paper to some journal or other.
   
6. Read as much of Milbank's oeuvre as possible as part of my thesis research.

Here ends my public stock-taking.

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