Friday, August 13, 2004
(7:42 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
FAC: Envy
Anthony is giving me comment envy. It's always been the case that my co-bloggers tend to get more comments per post than I do, but lately he's taken it to the next level -- seemingly innocuous posts prompt comment threads of prodigious length, involving interfaith dialogue, secret identities revealed, and the state of continental philosophy in the United Kingdom.
Mark Kaplan, Adrian, and Daniel Green (particularly his double review of David Foster Wallace) are all giving me blog envy.
All these people who know a list of a million professors they want to study with and where they are and what kind of program it is, etc., are giving me severe grad school anxiety. I'm thinking about abandoning the theology thing altogether and doing either comp lit or philosophy -- and, to my shame, in my foolishness, leaning more toward the former. I know that we live "in an era when it seems that the study of literature has irretrievably transformed itself into part of what is called 'cultural studies'--that is, a branch of social science at best, of political advocacy at worst," and I know that the pseudo-discipline of comparative lit is decadent in the extreme, doesn't know what it wants, etc., etc. -- but it just feels somehow right. I'll have to do some more research. Maybe I could go to the European Graduate School, which really is a real thing. Or, hell -- University of Phoenix probably offers a decent program.
Sub-confession: I really don't want to read any theology. Even a recent essay by a professor I love, about authors who were very energizing to me a couple years ago, left me completely cold. I read Mutabilitie's blog, with all its theological sophistocation, and I think to myself, "I just. Don't. Fucking. Care." (Nothing personal, M., I hope you understand.) I honestly wish that Mutabilitie would do more work with Spenser.
Anyway, confess, be shriven, my lovelies!
