AM int in:
art
poetry
philosophy ~ re subjectivity - Dasein (Heidegger) - Spirit (Hegel)
psychoanalysis ~ eps Winnicott - object relations

also, I like to know what people say about stories and characters (in novels, on television) when caught up with them -
personality


am NOT int in:
history
anthropology
biography
__________
give me facts as information but not as a story

Feelings Are facts By Yvonne Rainer.

Tell them almost everything but give them facts. -Facts, I said slowly, My God, have we come to that? -Oh, indeed, he said scornfully, Are you going to be purefly personal? -I am. Everyone is who writes well.
Djuna Barnes, The New York Tribune, February 16, 1919 (opening page - epigraph -of Djuna : the formidable Miss Barnes by Andrew Field)



oh also am int in ~ critical theory ~ marxism ~ or anyway, the question of our subjectivity as formed by economic system. value, exchange, reification. private property.
person as private institution (with accounts to manage) - owner of property including identity (credit rating).

Wendell Berry for actually talking about the facts, the state of the world. he seems to be right-minded about it all.
in Idea of a Local Economy (from Three Essays - reread today as 'reading' in Harpers Apr02) lays out simply how inherent in a total economy is the resulting ruination.
bcs the single principle is: buy low, sell high.
so requires affluent consumers with endless wants and depressed production - people willing to work for low wages, overproduction of the land.
and, long lines of supply to get things from where produced cheaply to where sold high -- and this requires cheap fuel, containment of terrorism.

total economy - where everything is private property. everything has a monetary value.
life forms. the "right to pollute". can be bought.

Wendell Berry, can you lead us

re the conceptual, Slavoj Zizek moved me when he spoke at the Oriental Institute, said There is so much work to do.
bcs yes, seems like we could understand more about economy-subjectivity (or what do I mean? what was he talking about?) and that could make a difference. or at least could feel like really improved understanding. and probably make a difference.
and I felt like Zizek was sincere. not caught up in academic institutionalized project, but really had a project. he said, we should assume Lacan really means things (that it's not nonsense) "and I -think- he really does". or that's what I seem to remember. I liked that for him too it is a question - is Lacan really saying something? - and he believes in the affirmative answer.
so I want to believe Zizek is really saying things too.