03 August 2004
Banning Graffiti would be like Outlawing Transcendental Philosophy
...or, even, like burning Mein Kampf.
Started reading the thing (it's really boring! it makes no sense! He blames Marx for his having originally been a 'weak-kneed cosmopolitan'!). Still, it's either that or review this new Judith Butler book on 9/11....
Managed to get some work in today, so mildly more upbeat about the whole project. Lately, reason has been smacking its head on the low ceiling of thought, and I just can't understand what on earth it is I'm trying to say. I hope this is just a necessary, yet temporary, physiological stage that bites when you are half-way through a PhD. Hopefully the bits of my brain that deal with thinking about 'the human', 'man', species, infinity, rationality and politics will put on weight and grow big and strong. Put the Hitler down, pig!
