Posts Tagged as ‘reading’

June 18, 2008

Falling behind

I’ve just emptied my file of all the articles I’ve printed but haven’t read yet – 18.
Might not sound like many, but I’m a mighty slow reader.
Can I finish them in two weeks?

June 18, 2008

The inadequacy of community

Just a very quick post as I’m only halfway through the article and desperately need to get it finished…
On Internet community:
Even so-called communities on the web, often defined by special interests, are but a ghostly caricature of the intimacy possible in a genuine community with flesh and blood others who are lived as possessing depth [...]

May 28, 2008

What I’m reading this week:

I’m juggling four books:

Adams, The boundless self: communication in physical and virtual spaces
Foucault, Ethics: subjectivity and truth
McAdams, Josselson, & Lieblich, Identity and story: creating self in narrative
Neisser & Fivush, The remembering self

Hopefully I’ll get to post a bit more about them as I write & do my notes.

May 23, 2008

He said what I was trying to say!

“As I sit at my desk writing, I am engaged with an audience that exists in other places and times… My audience is at once imaginary and real: at the moment of writing, it is imaginary; at the moment of reading, it is real. You are a figment of my imagination (in my time-space), but [...]