http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/ thinking about writing about violence en-us 2005-05-02T23:08:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/020937.html i can't decide if i have ADD or if i am distracting myself because i am so scared to fully deal with the scope of this project. i sit down to write and then distract myself by inserting footnotes where... speck025 2005-05-02T23:08:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/019706.html so it's been awhile. i still have yet to officially finish my rough draft, but really, all that means if that i have some stuff left to cover. i've actually gone through and edited everything that i have so far... speck025 2005-04-13T23:07:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/018972.html so i'm still rough drafting. and it's ridiculously long. i was not overstating how long i thought this would be when i said between 20 and 30 pages. it's 23 so far, and i'm not done yet. i still have... speck025 2005-04-03T18:34:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/018650.html is a little bit painful. i think i am giving myself a.d.d. though while writing this. i am still sensing a fear of jumping off this cliff. even though, realistically, i jumped off this cliff a long time ago. well,... speck025 2005-03-29T17:52:38-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/018436.html so i started writing up the rough draft today. for as easy as the outline was, i feel like i am now pulling teeth. my own teeth. it's weird because i've felt the build-up of information (or the bingeing as... speck025 2005-03-26T17:20:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017990.html ok, so i really can't decide how to organize my project. i've got everything grouped, i just can't decide on the order. a week ago, it went like this: *intro/what is violence? *feminist activism and violence (british and american suffragettes... speck025 2005-03-20T20:19:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017736.html i'm so excited. i almost peed my pants a few hours ago when i was at the library. or no, it was more like i almost lost control of my muscles so that i would've just collapsed on the floor.... speck025 2005-03-14T22:50:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017656.html so i spent my second full day of spring break at the library. oh yes. and i began organizing my project on notecards - which only proves that i think very well visually when it's sitting in front of me.... speck025 2005-03-13T00:19:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017613.html so in my entry yesterday, i was looking at my mathematical proof that violence is a manifestation of power, and as such is productive since power is produtive. but i ran into a glitch in my simplistic formula. arendt contends:... speck025 2005-03-11T14:58:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017553.html so first, i have to say, i just received an email from HRC asking me if i'd like to sign up for my very own HRC Visa. if there were ever a more glaring example of assimilation, i would like... speck025 2005-03-10T22:01:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/017434.html this isn't very well-fleshed out yet, so i need help. people keep recommending emma goldman to me in my research on ways violence has been used in resistance and activism. in the short biography that i've read on her, her... speck025 2005-03-08T22:31:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/016828.html this is more a reminder for myself, but here goes: fanon is using hegel's dialectic to argue the need for immense violence. arendt, in on violence writes: violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. hegel's and... speck025 2005-02-28T01:02:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/016747.html i was reading up on the zapatista uprising today, and came across something that made me think. in Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico: "Zapatismo is a struggle, not for power, but against it. a struggle for power implies adopting methods... speck025 2005-02-25T22:57:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/016605.html ok, so here's what i was thinking while i was organizing my bibliography: if violence also produces new laws and ethics (walter benjamin), why is it solely reserved for the government? how does this complicate the idea of democracy? by... speck025 2005-02-24T02:05:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/speck025/thesis/016502.html have spent the better part of the day researching and doing my annotated bibliography. i think i could research forever, but i am starting to feel the jumble in my head, and it will become necessary to write soon enough.... speck025 2005-02-23T01:59:59-06:00