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September 29, 2005

Thinking and Writing and Blogging and Being

Dang.

Maybe it's just this time of the year -- summer is officially over, the semester has really started to settle into its groove, the leaves are starting to change in places -- but everyone seems so introspective lately. And not just that, but positively down.

I'll provide links in my next post, but for now I just want to say that I'm thinking about all of these posts on being (and surviving as) a graduate student, on being (and surviving as) a faculty member, on publishing (or perishing) because (or in spite of) blogging...

Now, the usual blog narrative that starts with "I've been thinking about X" then goes on to post lots and lots (quite often) of prose about X. The nod toward thinking is a rhetorical performance to show how very important X is (it's worth my valuable brain-time), and what a good (public) intellectual the blogger is.

But it does not allow for the work of the processes of thinking to be made visible. Instead, we only get the results.

Well, not today, loyal readers. Today you get the admission that I really am puzzled and encouraged and troubled and unsure about where I am and where I was and where I see myself going and how I see myself getting there and what relation any of this has to the mountain of words put online by other lovely bloggers.

So, while I process all of this, I leave you to entertain yourself with this Boing Boing post from a while back about a robot cat you can buy in Japan. Click on the "Link" link at the bottom of the post (or on the image below) to see the video footage.

Posted by reparent at September 29, 2005 2:03 PM

Comments

Posted by: coeurlion at September 29, 2005 2:27 PM

Posted by: camicao at October 1, 2005 1:20 AM