Penny Hero (dot) Net

I have a little cloth notebook that I bought in Japan… and I’ve been using it to kinda log ideas, thoughts, rants, research topics, and anything else I feel like writing down.

I’ve realized now that there’s a certain value in posting some of this stuff in my journal. The whole public[private(public)] thing has many pros.

どうぞ：

• Research: “easy solution” epidemic… trace it through time. Q: a us phenomenon? diet fads, frivlous law-suits, internet shopping, editorials blaming the media for bad public critical thinking. Look at other countries… japan, china, canada etc. Is it related to “reductionist” values pervading much of patriarchal science? (Genome project, de-emphasis on research on 3rd-world disease etc) Post wwii physics p163 Barad.
• “interdisciplinary” isn’t even enough to help solve problems in classroom, education, literacy, culture. Worse: artificially enforicng lines between spheres. better: holistic… but how the fuck do you do that? seminar paper idea: look at how structuralism has enforced failures in literacy education. compare with other nations?
• Fiction idea: overwhelmbed but going, chugging along… and in ione fluid motion turn the page and smash th ebagel on my forehead, feeling the cool sensation of chees on my skin instead of in my mouth (java ii… no sleep. no possibility of finishing)
• There are arguments for making academic writing more accessible to the masses. There are arguments for forcing a person to strive and rise up to be able to understand academic discourse. (places value on one, not the other. is this right?) Bridge: there is a gap but someone could build a carreer “translating”… maybe not necessary. Ideas filter down through culture… but slowly. Is this enough? why am I so irritated by how opaque i think aca. lit. is?
• Rey Chow PMLA Jan 01 - equates derridas ‘mistake’ with those of columbus and the modern. so, war being a catalyst ofr new technologies and sciece would be ok too? Deconstruction: define halves then demonostrate motion… more likely that derrida was identifying how we percive chinese? claims D actually thinks the east in essentialist terms. Really? read gramatology. actually finding VALUE in stereotypes? “presense” == stereotype?”
• Screw housewife. marry rich and go to school forever.
• “it shows women in an objectifying way. it showes these men as objectifiers, unconscious of their surroundings etc.
• If we lvalue “unemotional” in getting things done, could ‘klingons and ‘enemy cultures’ or other’ be seen as a place where emotion/anger is effective? Are we incapable of imagining an “other” except by inverting something in ourselves?

There is much more, but i have to go to class in about 15 minutes and I still am not wearing any clothes.

Heh. :)