heating in august
oh, i love english weather, it really keeps you on your toes. on monday i walked into work in a t-shirt and jeans, then yesterday evening we were so cold we put the heating on!
i hope everyone's preparations for the show are going well. If you need any help, please just let me know. I am doing my best to ensure I am free for the whole week leading up to the show, so i can be on hand as general dogsbody...
have been doing a lot of reading recently, since i came up with a (perhaps a little too ambitious) plan to finish half my paper before term starts in september, so i can focus on my practical work when doug and jordan are more available to me. Anyway, its going well so far. I'm still at the stage of reading around the subject where everything you read makes you realise just how little you know about it, but I am sure I will break through in a couple of weeks and then i can start writing. Have been reading this text by Deleuze and Guattari called A Thousand Plateaus which is scarily brilliant, how do people get that clever? The whole thing is written in this structure like hypertext, so you can dip in and out, the order is not rigid. And it seems to cover everything, psychology, philosophy, politics etc etc. I hope one day I can go back to it and think - 'Oh, it's not that clever'. Right now it makes me feel very small and stupid and gives me a headache after every few paragraphs - in fact I've got one now just thinking about it!
What else have I been reading?... Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto (which was strangely far less impressive than i had expected - i think so many of her ideas, which were radical when she wrote them, have been absorbed into popular culture - so they don't seem shocking now), Marcus Novak - Liquid Architectures, can't remember other names right now - don't have the books to hand, but lots of interesting stuff about cyberspace as a military enterprise and then a place for fun, and about rhizomes and hallucination and representation etc....
I have become such a nerd!
