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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Coffee Blogging

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 21, 2007

I think my affection for my coffee shop has long since reached the level where I should just create a “coffee blogging” category and have done with it. I can’t imagine anyone actually wanting to read the things I write on this place – like the time that I spend here, the entries I write [...]

Coffee, Procrastination

Group Dynamics in Teaching

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 19, 2007

The collective personalities that emerge in groups of students remain a source of wonder to me.

Teaching

Hegelian Poker

1 Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 16, 2007

So the reading group reconvened for its first proper discussion in some time, to discuss Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia. I won’t pre-empt the substantive online discussion, which L Magee will lead off when time permits. It may be worth mentioning in passing a new reading group tradition – which somehow got dubbed “Hegelian Poker” – [...]

Reading Group, Sociology of Knowledge

I Do

2 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 15, 2007

This may be just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen (it helps if you’re somewhat familiar with L Magee’s site and the topics discussed over there): “HI! I’ve have similar topic at my blog! Please check it.. Thanks.” To the hundreds of fastidious commentators out there – I would love to “check it”. But [...]

Blogging, Links, Procrastination

Immediate Reactions

12 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 14, 2007

Sinthome at Larval Subjects has written a couple of responses to my recent post on real abstractions. My current response to the most recent is, I suspect, trapped in the same Akismet queue that seems also to be holding up some legitimate comments over here lately (incidentally, people should email me if they notice posts [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy

Don’t Begrudge Me

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 14, 2007

L Magee has rolled out the beta of the software for the PhD project profiled over at schematique.org – thanking me “begrudgingly” for my support, by which I take it LM means the methodology slam to which I contributed last week – offline, alas, so no records of the slamming remain, but if any of [...]

Links, Reading Group, Technology

Gesturing at a History of the Immediate

5 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 12, 2007

Sinthome from Larval Subjects has this annoyingly productive knack for writing things that won’t leave my thoughts, that provoke me to cast back on unresolved problems that are quite central in my own work – destabilising and reactivating those problems once again, and thus prompting me to write responses even when I have other commitments [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy

Ghostwriter

4 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 11, 2007

I’m seeing a few things on the web today that I identify with… a bit too much. First, even before I read the post, I felt a shudder of recognition (or was that someone walking over my grave?) when I saw the title of Sarapen’s “Today’s Paragraph”… I have to string together far more paragraphs [...]

Links, Writing

Immediate Concerns

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 11, 2007

I have so many substantive things I want to write at the moment – particularly in response to some fantastic ideas raised over at Larval Subjects, as Sinthome continues to reflect on how we can make normative judgments about particular forms of thought, within an immanent and self-reflexive theoretical framework that does not allow us [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory

Surfaces

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 9, 2007

My coffeeshop has been going through a remodelling process over the past several months – a process we have occasionally had reason to suspect was orchestrated to make a lot of noise, so as to move us along, when we monopolise a table longer than our collective coffee rent justifies. Aside from more structural changes, [...]

Coffee, Overheard, Procrastination

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