How much longer I wonder?
Author archives: pasdelasbas
fractidying
Cleaning the house and in the kitchen I get obsessed with crumbs and dust near the cooker and sweep it up for the umpteenth time. I realise there is no end to tidying. Like investigations of social life. The political scientist in me looks at street layouts, the sociologist orders the whole house, the anthropologist …
Outsider
I always feel like an outsider except when I really am one.
Utopia
When listening to a very short extract or rather the start of a longer talk by Zizek on utopia this is what I understood: that he understands discussion of utopia to be by its very nature a discussion of something which does not take account of material conditions, the contradictions, conflicts and struggles, out of …
what i said to the true believer
In discussion with a true believer I asserted that there is no more shame associated with the Western tradition than with others. That indeed this analytical mindset was one that enables the person to understand the viewpoint of another yet maintain their sense of being within that analytical framework. Other frames, other traditions but not …
Dean and Saskia at the Allotment Shop!
Looking like they ought to look.
Jesus mum
I’m on my way home now It’s not quite getting late But I’m getting quite tired Someone’s been singing about how I put a golden comb in your black hair Jesus Mum I’m sick of you being dead
All possible futures
So I’ve been wanting to write this for some time. It’s something to do with all possible futures. We have been to Cornwall as a family over the recent Easter holidays and on the return journey we stopped in a service station. One of the children had some sort of toasted Italian penny type sandwich …
I dream of Alaigne once more
Well after my fieldwork was completed and towards the end of writing this thesis I had a dream. Alaigne was a river and I was to cross the river. The water level was low compared to what I knew it could be and this was good because I wore Wellington boots that came up to …
I dreamed of Alaigne
“John thinks you are not honest – you don’t really care.” “But I’m here two weeks” I replied, wondering at first who John was at first. [Two weeks to complete this thesis John]