The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts by Michael Kimmel.

My old advisor sent me a link to this book, which was touching, and it’s nice because the book is spot on and I totally want to read it. Also, I like how Kimmel, who was someone who I read a lot back in the day is doing things that are really interesting to me.

Anyway. Father, if you’re reading this, since you have academic library privileges….

If I wanted to, you know, lay something out, using LaTeX but it had to have images…. not just figures, but honest to god pictures. how would you swing that?

would an html2latex tool take care of it, or… what? can I just do markdown/html image tags and use maruku?

note to self:

write something about queer stuff and science fiction. write anything about queer stuff it should happen.

I didn’t even add “the queer” as a category to /tychoish until just now. What does that say?

On the one hand I’ve taken to using my computer and my text editing software for my job. It means that I can get more done, and it’s nice to use a computer where all the keys are in the right place (it’s my own fault for moving them around on my keyboard.) The downside, is that the last thing I want to do when I come home is open up the editor and write. I think getting a different theme going on might help with this problem… anyway.

Work is going well. They fixed the book shelves, so I can get to the material I need to work with, and don’t have to spend time sitting around trying to be creative in an attempt to find something to do, because I can’t get to the stuff I need, because the shelves are stuck. That will learn you to not build bookshelves that are smarter than you.

A note to the people from knitting camp: I did infact ordered some of the yarn that Lou Ann had (and lots of color cards). I can’t wait. I did leave my foulder and books at camp do’oh so it’s coming book rate¹. That lead time will hopefully allow me to get some other things done, so that I don’t throw myself into a new design before I get some of my in progress projects taken care of. Currently on the needles/in the queue: 3.25 sleeves, the body of a sweater. Currently waiting to start: an armenian sweater in merino lace weight, and some sort of celtic/tukish design using the Domy Heather (a la Lou Ann). If I hunkered down the sleeves would be done pretty soon, so we’ll see how this works out.

Also a knitting camp note: if folks have pictures that they want to share they totally should. I love that you all took pictures of my shawl, I’m totally relying on the group for the pictures.

I’ll be in touch, and I’m going to try and blog more knitting stuff over here.

Thanks for reading.

Ok friends, so given my general lack of acomplishment this week, I don’t really have a proper Delueze essay for you this week. I browsed the first several pages of the chapter I had planed to read this week, and it didn’t really work for me. The third major division (part?) of the book is titled “Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men” and basically covers the formation of Oedipal¹ structures on the social/cultural level. While this is important, this part of the text is hard to get through, of decreasing utility, and oblique.

I have to say that this is probably exactly the kind of project that psychoanalytical terms and frameworks are ill suited to. We can talk about normative ideas, and cultural organization really well without imposing the tangentially useful Analytic crap. There’s plenty of room and need for it, but right here, I really can’t imagine ever coming back to it. I keep stalling out on this section of the book, I think this should be a hint to me.

So this brought me back to the table of contents so that I can think of how to proceed. I do want to keep reading Deleuze, but I need to find something that works better. My first impulse is to go to DR (which is what Jared of SportiveThoughts Recommends), but I have half a mind to just skip 4 sections in AO and read 8. “The Urstaat,” and 10. “Capitalist Representation,” and then move on to the final part, which is “Introduction to Schizoanalysis.”

In an effort to give this post a little meaning, as a follow up to the list of reason why I thought AO was important/worthwhile, I’d like to present a list of possible applications/uses. Next week, I’ll have something more substantive.

• structural models (machines), are inherently incomplete and flawed. Deleuze and Guatteri’s discussion of this concept, can be helpful in exploring and explaining social practices which we may be tempted to assume as being somehow a priori, like memory, or gender.
• I think I’m going to, at some point, use Deleuze and Guatteri’s discussion of recording machines as part of a justification for studying memory. Same for the section that I quoted in Culture, Memory and Lanague.
• Once I find more of the nomadic subject/multipicity of subjectivity’s stuff, I think that would be very helpful to my cause.

I think that’s just the surface, but a start. Have a good weekend.

Cheers, tycho

thats right, I’ve gotten more span with quotes from the foundation books. Now of course, there’s a GIF attached with spam-y information. But I like the foundation books, so I will represent it here for you.

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this is a draft of course of something that’s been floating around in my head…

Julia: here to set up your data portal.

David: don’t tell me you’re the tech.

Julia (agast): I’m not the tech, I’m the systems, data and node administrator, do you still want the data portal or not?

David: oh, right that’s not what I meant at all. sorry, no, I mean yes I want the portal, I was just sort of surprised at how young you all are these days.

Julia: oh! sorry. I’m still a little buzzed.

david: a bit early even for someone so young.

Julia: not that kind of buzz. it’s the nets. I was working all night. and I’m not that young.

david; oh. right. sorry….

As I come out of my haze and return to “real life” and all the various things I have (and want) to do I’m realizing how little time I actually have to do it (this week) Ah well. Day by day. Thankfully I’ve finally returned to the life of the living. For more readings about my doings and what I’m up to check out my last post on TealArt, which should cover some stuff.

Because in a lot of ways this site is my place to list things: I have a few things to make a list of.

1. I need to order the yarn for my next sweater and call KnitPicks to replace a needle. 2. I need to write a little thing up about/for Knitting camp, because I promised that I would, and I want to. 3. I want to write this essay for Brenda’s podcast, and I need to get cracking on it, because I doubt that I’ll be able to read it myself. 4. Station Keeping needs some attention. 5. knitting savants also needs some proper attention. 6. It’s time to do a little bit of honest to goodness hunkering down 7. I need some farscape time. I’ve had the second season of Voyager on my computer for a long time, and while it’s enjoyable, I actually want to see some of the later seasons, and would like to use my limited knitting/TV time for something good/better.

Also I have a message for the g-ds of libraries: please make the shelves at work, well, work. I will do penance for my people’s decision to use new fangled bookshelves which can brake, if you’ll just make them work reliably.

have a good day, and bear with me as things slowly return to normal around here