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March 7, 2008

The Believer, causality

I only subscribe to one magazine, The Believer. The cost is modest, and there’s usually at least a few worthwhile bits in each issue, although the whole thing kind of stinks of the mainstream intelligensia habitus that I found so distasteful in academia. Nevertheless, I myself am entrained in a large part to that habitus, […]

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More on The Wire

I saw a leak of the last episode of The Wire last night and then just sat around devastated for a while. I’m not going to spoil it for anyone, but one thing I’ve thought about is how expertly the realism draws you in so that you kind of overlook the literary quality of the […]

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March 6, 2008

Hegel?

I’ve been meaning to write for months, but as usual teaching has gotten in the way. So, while most of the stuff I’ve been having my students read has been fertile ground to expound upon here, it’s also been impossible to have more than a few spare moments in which to arrange the disparate threads, […]

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