Wes Anderson, Kierkegaard, and Blogs
Man, my SIP is turning out to be a total blast to work on. I'm getting to talk about Wes Anderson, my favorite director; Soren Kierkegaard, my favorite philosopher; and blogging, my new favorite cyber-interest.
If you're wondering how this is going to come together into something even vaguely resembling coherent, have well, some fear. It's all brought together though by the loss of community in America. Not by the actual loss of course, but by a study of it, and how Anderson's films are loss of community based, using Kierkegaardian rotation narratives to tell the story, and about how place-centered cyberspace activites like blogging, lan parties, and slashdot meetups represent a return to community narrative of its own sort.
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 08:23 PM
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Your SIP sounds awesome! I'd love to read it when you're done. I KNOW what a crazy time this is for you, but I want to encourage you to really enjoy the SIP writing process. It really shaped my goals and interests academically...and was a springboard for some of the stuff I think about now. So...couraggio! (or however you spell it.)
So whatever happened to Foucault?
Posted by: Jeannette at April 15, 2003 12:39 AM
Not a whole lot has happened with Foucault, although I did kinda go on a Foucault kick for awhile. I burned through "Care of the Self the History of Sexuality," "Madness & Civilization," and "Discpline & Punish," and some of his essays. They were pretty incredible, and I dig his ontology of the present.
I eventually started veering away from him in my thinking. I just felt overall it contributed far to much to my cynicism (his historiography for example). Plus I just started feeling that his take on language power-plays, and radical self-definition were beyond what I was comfortable with...
which led back to my love of Kierkegaard and Barth. This will of course, get me excommunicated in some circles, but I think both do far more to straddle the paradoxes of life and knowing and all that. I think its because both were believers, and both were trying to be so Christological and Incarnational, something Foucault of course is not trying to do.
But ya, my SIP. Whew. It's coming, not as fast as I'd like, but it's coming.
Posted by: JosiahQ at April 15, 2003 06:26 PM
How about putting it up for us to read?
Posted by: mkrueger at April 21, 2003 10:14 AM
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