Monthly Archives: January 2008

I Don’t Know About You…

…but it just feels like things are slow in terms of news worth blog­ging about. I haven’t seen any fea­ture arti­cles I really want to com­ment on, either.Am I just imag­in­ing this? Pow­ered by ScribeFire.

January 31, 2008 – 10:40 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (3)

“Stupendous Fabrics:” Notes on Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 9

Out­line Fed­er­al­ist 9 begins by stat­ing “a firm Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and lib­erty of the States, as a bar­rier against domes­tic fac­tion and insur­rec­tion.” After that open­ing, and an ini­tial bar­rage against the “petty republics of Greece and Italy” which never had a sta­ble peace, there are 10 …

January 29, 2008 – 4:09 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Should Academics Blog?

Lec­ture to be deliv­ered in 2025 or when­ever this blog gets pop­u­lar, and not by me, but by what­ever android holds my brain. I plan to be dead from drug abuse and an incred­i­ble amount of dirty sex­ual activ­ity that is het­ero­sex­ual in nature. Shut up now, the android’s about to speak. I have been brought …

January 28, 2008 – 3:15 am | By ashok | Posted in academia, blogging, media | Tagged | Comments (4)

Expectant

Been in front of the com­puter for far too long recently, just wait­ing and hop­ing. The times I read phi­los­o­phy and poetry on here, or even pro­mote my work — I feel like I’m going through the motions. Once again the ques­tion is sal­va­tion. Is our hap­pi­ness exter­nal to us? Niet­zsche unloads on Wag­ner for …

January 26, 2008 – 6:47 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)

Links, 1/25/08

Movies, movies and more movies: The reli­ably thought­ful Dana Stevens reviews the lat­est Rambo; Stacey Nosek’s take on Break­fast at Tiffany’s is as good as it gets; Ted Boynton’s thoughts on Lawrence of Ara­bia are pow­er­ful in and of them­selves. Gui­tar porn — but it’s seri­ously good. Pow­ered by ScribeFire.

January 25, 2008 – 2:26 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)