Lectures this week are really good, in general. We are actually talking psychology in Psychology, from human nature (lots of fun pictures of torture...) to, now, how we can quantify a persons personality. Hooray for the objectification of everything that is real and good!
IR is good as well, good lecturer this week (they change every week). We're mainly just talking about ideas of sovereignty, the nation-state, and globalization. This is especially interesting with tensions on all sides running high about Scottish independence--while its all very conceptual, it does feel like a turning point.
Philosophy is moving on to free will/determinism next week, which is great because I'm fed up with identity. More on that later, maybe. Suffice it to say I feel like everyone is talking about different things and formal logic is just miring it all down in a cess pool.
Tonight I have my tutorial for IR, which will hopefully be good, and get to audition people for the Freshers Play. I look forward to passing judgement from on high.
Until later,
Me.
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Soft Night
silent graffiti
sprawling words stretched out on cream pink walls
spattered from on high by the seagulls
that freewheeled and caw-cawed through aharsh pink sky
still graffiti
a motionless oasis
in violence, silent. calm,
but eagerly longing for discovery:
notice me!
here! I am out of place
no whitewashed walls
a monument TO MAN’S INGENUITY
no pyramids of the metropolis
only the loving work of boys
somewhere between testament and confession
they who posses nothing
but are the property of adults
spray themselves out on other adult property
this is mine! until the paint
is covered by another layer
dogs piss at a fire hydrant
silent graffiti
crackling ground under Nikes
and from
far off
the whirr of sirens.
3 comments:
Brian - what is the main book your reading in Psychology? I'd like to go find a copy and look at it. Quantifying the personality sounds boring........now, torture, on the other hand...????? (kidding! just kidding!)
The book is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Neil-R-Carlson/dp/0130359114/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/203-9045386-7381518?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192127217&sr=8-2 . Psychology, Niel R Carlson.
Are there interesting arguments between the English and the Scots in the class on the topic of sovereignty?
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