Archive for September, 2007

Silence

Anyone who knows me well understands that I like control. Miles, my four-year-old, is not a child who is willing to submit very easily to my manipulative parenting tactics. So, whenever I can’t hear him in the house, I know he is up to something I typically would not embrace. This morning, I was blow [...]

I love this quote from Adorno and Horkheimer:
“The unity of the manipulated collective consists in the negation of each individual and in the scorn poured on the type of society which could make people into individuals.”

Assessing the damage

So, I’m in the third week of my second year.  Things seem a bit more doable this semester.  The reason: I am taking one less class than I did both semesters last year.  This is a huge load off.  The two seminars I am enrolled in this term are Theories of Feminism and Technology and [...]