My brain and I, at work.

Hmpf reads Judith Butler. It's dense reading, very slow, with a lot of rereading, and marking things with little question marks in the margins.

( my brain has other ideas )

(Excerpts taken from chapter 3 of The Psychic Life of Power, by Judith Butler, Stanford University Press, 1997.)

An announcement to my friends list

I like to put all this out in the open because I know that silence in LJ - silence in response to an entry, extended silence from a friend who used to be commenting etc. - can be problematic and is likely to be interpreted in unfortunate ways, and the same goes for filtering, selective catching up, etc. I think for all but the most self-assured of us there's always an element of "does she still like me?" involved when we suspect - often wrongly - we're being ignored - and I'm currently ignoring a hell of a lot of people. So, here's what's happening with me and LJ, i.e. with me and you:

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Okay. I hope everybody knows where they stand with me now.

ETA: From all of this kind of follows: if there's anything going on in your life or your LJ that you really want me to know about, it's probably best if you drop me a note, here or via e-mail (my e-mail addy is on my user info page), as long as I'm still on my 'selective reading' diet.

Thanks.