Archive for August, 2008
Thesis suicide! I tipped a glass of water all over my laptop today. At first it seemed okay – I tipped off all the water, tried as much as I could to soak up any visible water with paper towel… and it was all still working ok. So I went back to work, and did [...]
Just not now, given I’m focused on writing reception history. Though, really, this is relevant.
Gavin Kitching (Politics, UNSW), has just had a new book published, The Trouble With Theory (Allen & Unwin, 2008). There was an extract, or adaptation, in last week’s Australian. Kitching took 20 something Honours theses – all of which utilised “postmodern” [...]
My supervisor has asked me to set my own deadline for a full draft of my first chapter. PhD as experience of self-discipline. This chapter is an analysis of the reception of Derrida in certain philosophy of history and historiographical journals.
I’m coming up on having been doing this for 12 months now, and a [...]
