Monday, September 26, 2005
(9:11 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Reading Group to Come
Brey, Mike Schaefer, and I are planning on doing a reading group on The Colonial Present by Derek Gregory, a critique of the War on Terror from the point of view of geography. It comes highly recommended from David Harvey. Over the course of the year or more that I have known Brey, I have gradually become convinced that one does need to pay much more attention to geography.Right now, we're just tracking down and reading the book -- no date has yet been set for an actual meeting time.
UNRELATED QUESTION: Does anyone have any suggestions for how best to send a small (approx. 2 inches long, closed) Swiss army knife via the US postal service?
AN OBSERVATION: Taking four PhD courses simultaneously is kind of a lot of work, I'm discovering. I'm sure that soon we'll pass from the stage where the blog is a pure outlet (and hence where I mainly do weird little personal posts) to the stage where my brain is so overloaded that I must divert some of the intellectual material to the blog to avoid flooding in the more upscale touristy areas of my brain.
But we're not quite there yet: "Today I've been very busy achieving task after task. I did my laundry, moved my truck across the street so that I won't get a ticket later this afternoon, did the dishes, prepared a delicious cardboard pizza, and read over 100 pages, all while playing one of the best e-mail chess games of my entire life. Plus my allergies haven't been bad -- it's weird, being able to breathe out of both nostrils consistently. I had started to suspect that the Intelligent Designer had intended them to be a decorative embellishment."
