That’s all folks
May 28th, 2005I’m done! Done! *does jubilant danse* I mean dance. The French paper is done, it’s barely 18 pages (rather underweight), and quite unconventional (read: might receive a failing grade), but then is free-association-interpretive-dance on paper ever conventional? I think not.
Must pack up fast. Today is the last day storage is open, I believe.
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Added: I wrote an addendum to my French paper, in an effort to shore it up against a failing grade. *worry*
For my paper I tried to explore, performatively, the act of narration as creating a “fiction” out of actual events, in the Brechtian sense that fiction gives us the necessary distance to relate to the characters and learn something form their situation, Thus, a meta-aim of this paper was to assert the role of art and literature in a globalised world. As such, the first half of the paper is presented as “true fiction”, or a realistic retelling of actual events.through flashbacks and analysis arising from hindsight. Naturally, the paper deals with themes related to globalization; the first story explores the characteristics of what I call our “new sociability” or means of relating to others in “society” in a globalized world (no longer created by history, geography or bloodlines but by chance and by a rhizomatic yet identifiable administration). The second story examines the more machinic aspects of globalization, namely the control and modulation of society by impersonal rules and technology. Through the recounted experience, I examine the perfectibility of this (inevitably flawed) r