Behind the Screeds
A summary of what's been happening in the meantime.
Thursday, 2008-12-04 | Lists
| "Perhaps the single most important idea in Percy's epistemology, expressed again and again in his essays and interviews (especially MB, 282), is his conviction that this kind of impoverishment in the power to name experience causes a subsequent impoverishment of consciousness and being since it is only through language transactions with others that the self locates who and where it is." |
I've been spread fairly thin lately. But not so thin that I haven't got the time to check in and mention what it is that has been stretching me so thin.
- I have been attempting to post once a day to AllNightNeonSunrise. ANNS is kind of an experiment in what happens when micro-blogging (e.g. the sort of thing you do on twitter) requires more than simply describing what you're currently doing: each post requires an image, a third-party quote, a link to another website and a title in addition to a body and therefore lends a different insight into what is actually happening in the mind of the poster.
- Having fallen behind during my week-long Thanksgiving hiatus, I am now caught up with my media consumption journal: check out November and December. There are a few things that are going to be filed under December (on account of my having to play catch-up), but such is life in a world where I'm too lazy to manually massage the data in order to make it more accurately resemble my actual life.
- Against my better judgment, I have begun to read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Taking up this modern fiction classic about medieval monasticism goes against my better judgment on account of the fact that the years of my life during which I closely studied medieval monasticism and theology are ones that I have no desire to revisit, let alone relive every time I happen upon a spare minute in which I can crack a paperback. There's just too much sentiment there.
- Keep in mind also that I am working on a new, secret band. The work is coming along nicely and details (however scant) should be forthcoming within the month.