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Am reading Althusser.
:-p <--- taste bad face

So far he hasn't said anything that the textbooks didn't say quicker and clearer and rather better. But apparently going and reading what they're all talking about has some value. I can see how it could avoid playing telephone with theorists. But some of these dudes need massive lessons in clarity.

There's also the feeling of coming in in the middle of an argument where I can only hear one speaker and he's replying to stuff that it wouldn't have occured to me to object to.

So far I'm highlightering every sentence that actually makes sense and hoping I can stick them together to mean roughly what it says in the other book.
:eyeroll:


... ah, is past 5pm and I forgot lunch, that would explain some of the blah then...

So, food, then finish the stupid essay, then go back to the book as actually makes sense.

Spent all day reading for cultural studies.
Happy now :-)

Have only stopped cause I realised I couldn't get my brain to stick to the topic and then looked up and found it was 9pm. Which, you know, explained it.

I love this book. There's bits about syntagms and rhetoric and interpellation and that Night Mail film we watched and might do an essay on and all of it makes sense in English! Win!

Later on there will be analysis of Take That. I giggle in anticipation. For this is a book of the 90s, and suffers much when trying to be up to date.

I've got a bunch of little paper markers left in it for bits that I want to copy and quote on the discussion board. Is interesting.

... yes, I continue to prove I'm definitely on the right course.
:-D