dissertation.
Possibly the very last academic writing piece of my entire life takes up all my time and energy. I will be one proud student once my dissertation is handed in. I know I love a bit of complaining, but the idea of not having to write anything else, ever again, makes me sad.
the act of creativity is fundamental to development.
A work of art is considered successful only if it remains infinite to our understanding; ”it is perceived, felt, effective; but it cannot be really recognizes, and even less can it’s essence, its merit be expressed in words.”[1] The work of art will always be subjective, but will always feed the need for beauty and humanity. On the contrary, if two scientists were to work on the same experiment and would end up with different results or outcomes, it could only mean that one of them is wrong. Both art and science search for novelty, which leads to development and evolution.
[1] Pfenninger, Karl H. The origins of creativity. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2001; p xi.
untitled.
“Class is not just about the way you talk, or dress, or furnish your home; it is not about the job you do or how much money you make doing it; nor it is merely about whether or not you have A levels or went to university, nor which university you went to. Class is something beneath your clothes, under your skin, in your reflexes, in your psyche, at the very core of your being. In the all-encompassing English class system, if you know that you are in the ‘wrong’ class, you know you are a valueless person. Working-class children of my generation who, against the odds, got a selective secondary education learned this lesson every time they put on their grammar school uniforms. The price they were asked to pay for their education was amnesia, a sense of being uprooted-and above all, perhaps, a loss of authenticity, an inability to draw on the wisdom, strength and resources of their roots to forge their own paths to adulthood.”[1]
[1] Kuhn, Annette: Family secrets; Acts of memory and imagination. London: Verso, 2002; p 117
happiness.sadness.
Web definition: state of well-being characterised by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
Web definition: emotions experienced when not in a state of well being.
The kite runner.
“Wah wah! So, if I understand, you’ll study several years to earn a degree, then you’ll get a chatti job like mine, one you could just as easily land today, on the small chance that your degree might someday help you get… discovered.”
