Things Accomplished This Week

- Two full days of student consultations.
- Got to know classmates even better
- Presentation on Ann Cvetkovich; went heavily, but well, I think.
- Short story for Crossed Genres done and submitted, with two days shy of deadline. Not bad considering I started writing it on... Thursday? It is also a sequel of sorts to Between Islands. I doubt it'll be picked, but at least I tried!
- Started reading Anil Menon's primer on postcolonialism
- Talked to Dr. Z about 18th century Orientalism (she did her PhD on it at Brown)

Things to do this weekend:
- Work on proposal for Politics for Our Times class (am going to link the maintenance of online communities to the concepts of defection and exodus)
- Think of a "social issue" to work on for Public Intellectuals class
- Pick a goddamn topic for core course, dammit.
- Read some race theory, because I've been hanging on to Dr. C's book for long enough
- Read some Delany, because I've been hanging onto Dr. A's book long enough.
- Finish this outline for NaNoWriMo
- Go to that Halloween party and hit on that hot dude my age.
- NaNoWriMo kick-off party at the pier
- Batten down the hatches and hope I don't die in November

Response: Virno, "The Ambivalence of Disenchantment"

Because it's been a long time since I posted anything remotely academic on this LJ! I've been posting stuff over at my Tumblr, but this is a nice neat response, and my prof told me it was good, and I even presented on this reading, so, here it is.

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Over at Silver Goggles, I talked about the research and writing process that went into my steampunk story "Between Islands". It covers history, cultural things, linguistic things, and naming issues. It's probably also incomplete because I wrote the story so long ago. Either way. Hope you like it!