From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 20:01:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Adieu to 2003



L/All,

My 2003 list, while there's still time left:

1) the year I discovered that "surveillance" is now verb

2) the year I discovered the existence of a rather sublime phenomena called 
a "cold water mirage."

3) chance discovery of 2003:  Craig E. Adcock's Marcel Duchamp's Notes from the 
Large, An N-Dimensional Analysis

4) purposeful "discovery" of 2003:  Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community 
(i've been meaning to read and re-read and read this book for some time.)

5) Best jazz album purchase:  Paul Bley Trio BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop, 1990

6) Compelling sports event:  The Cubs loss w/ five outs to go and the 
subsequent persecution of Steve Bartman, the unfortunate fan blamed for the 
incident.

7) Best DVD: Tenacious D, The Complete Master Works

8) Favorite W. Bush-ism:  "It's important for us to explain to our nation that 
life is important.  It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children 
living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet" (Arlington Heights 
speech, 2000, recorded in the 2003 "They Misunderestimate ME!, The Curious 
Language of GWB Calendar.")

Here's one more from GWB to lead us into this 2004 election year:

"I don't see many shades of gray in war and terror.  Either you're with us or 
you're against us.  And it's a struggle between good and it's a struggle 
between evil."

Happy 2004! 

g          





Quoting Lydia Perovich <fauxprophete-AT-hotmail.com>:

> [I meant to say, what the MH rage was ALL ABOUT, agh, sentences are just 
> running out of control on some days.]
> 
> Isn't Machiavelli interesting, though.  His republican lament *Discorsi 
> sulla prima deca di Tito Livio* is regularly overlooked in Poli Sci depts, 
> not to mention the history of Florence that he wrote.  His play Mandragola 
> still gets shown here and there.  A good reminder to look up his writing in 
> more detail, thanx Eric.  (I am still waiting to hear your thoughts on 
> Franzen's Corrections.)
> 
> My Italian philosophical revival of 2003 was related to Gramsci.  I had no 
> idea how rich his oeuvre was till I read a manuscript on Gramsci's life and 
> work that the publisher I work for would be co-publishing next year with a 
> UK press. You can hear often about Gramsci these days but he is usually 
> reduced to a few ideas that get endlessly recycled ('hegemony', 'war of 
> position and war of maneuver', and 'organic intellectual').  There is so 
> much in Gramsci.
> 
> Happy 2004 to all!
> 
> L
> 
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