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September 06, 2006
Vivitur in genio and other Stuff.
It is no secret that I like stuff. I have always had a penchant for physical object and the delight and agony they can produce. When I first moved to MN, I was pretty miserable, and so I was happy to be surrounded by the things I had made, collected, designed, etc. for my new home. Nesting and all. I was happy to be in an apt where I had more room; it felt like a real place instead of some lame grad skool starter. Now it just feels too big and all that stuff that I love and made and collected? It feels like so much junk, oppressive. Yet somehow it is hard to throw things away. I am trying. I want nothing to stand between me and my (eventual) move.
The main things in the way now are my dreaded prelim exams. I really don't feel like I will be ready to take them in November. My adviser suggested early February as an alternative, but I feel like a cop out, a grad school loser pushing them back.
In partial preparation, I am trying to finish this Kant paper that has somehow plagued me for what seems like forever. Kant just doesn't really speak to me, even though he is pretty much the backbone of Western aesthetics. Well, I've got news: most of Western aesthetics are wrong, people. I am finally making progress, having found, what I think is a pretty interesting object to apply the stuff to: early modern anatomical illustrations.
The pillar says that genius lives on though all other things die. Now I can't say I believe in "genius" per se, but I sure could use a little more inspiration... Doesn't help that the stupid museum is having more stupid construction and all I can smell is some stupid tar that is filling my apt and making me nauseous. Stupid! Ok, now time to brew some tea and get this Kant party started.
Posted by loyd0008 at September 6, 2006 10:05 AM
Comments
I work until 8:30 on the 16th. What time is the derby-ing?
Posted by: Taryn at September 6, 2006 12:29 PM
7:30
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Posted by: villain at September 6, 2006 12:34 PM
Have you seen any Anatomical Venus figures?They are extrodinary-
http://www.museudelamedicina.cat/eng/exposicions/venus.htm
Posted by: calamity sue at September 7, 2006 02:42 PM
Wow.. i was aware of the wax anatomies used by folks like nuns for dissection without cadavers, but the venus has a totally different aura... very scopophilic and contemporary feeling
Posted by: villain at September 7, 2006 02:46 PM
Those wax anatomies we saw in Italy were downright creepy, but there's something about that Venus that's even more bothersome.
I'm so glad you're making progress on the paper! It has been on the menu for so long, one might have mistaken it for a part of the prelims. Incompletes must be hell, though; I can't imagine trying to write a paper so long after I'd taken the class.
Posted by: j. at September 7, 2006 05:47 PM