Wednesday, January 04, 2006
(8:45 PM) | Old - Doug Johnson:
Hybridity as Double Consciousness Lite? and more
Is something like rolling one's eyes anyone else's reaction to papers and books with any form of the word hybrid in the title? I've never paid enough attention to a piece on hybridity to even know who made hyrbidity studies sexy. Am I missing something? I should note that the one exception to my general disdain was a talk I heard Boyarin give at Duke on his most recent book. The talk was titled Heretics and Hybridity and I believe he said at the time that such would also be the title of the book. Apparently, Boyarin thought better of the title, and the only reference in the jacket to hybridity suggests that it is a concept not able to deal fully with the situation of early Judaeo-Chrisitianity. Isn't DuBois double consciousness a far, far better medium for dealing with so called 'hybridity' issues?New Years Resolutions: to set aside enough time to read seriously The Time That Remains (it seems like old news now in these parts); to begin waking up at 5 several morings a week in order to do something more with my masters thesis (first on the agenda is e-mailing Marc Goodman with a copy, brief introduction, etc.); kick the sucrose habit that is in all probability primarily responsible for my being horribly sick these past few days.
Doesn't it seem like there hasn't been enough noise about Alito? Are democrats resigned to the fact that he will get in one way or another? That Harry Reid and company cannot buck a well-qualified rating from the ABA? Or is the relative silence strategic - allow other issues bad for the administration to grab headlines while preparations are made for a discomfitting fight?
I enjoyed Scott Eric Kaufman's piece on bloggers at the MLA and hope that similar circumstances hold when we finally make the AAR for the first time next November in D.C. (at least that might be considered another one of our New Year's resolutions - this past year a necessary trip to Hawai'i for a wedding in November kept J. and I away).
Last year I reported that our then not yet two year old used the word 'mine' for the first time in her life during Christmas Day gift opening. True to form, the now not yet quite three year old aimed her first swing at her 11 month old brother during gift opening this year. And she connected. Prophetic sign acts?
Okay, enough shit and garbage. That is, unless the weblog's esteemed commenters have somewhat to add.
