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bagheera_sanDid my first presentation for this semester (High German Consonant shift - enormously boring) and it went very well despite my almost complete lack of preparation. Also, it was a partner work effort, but the girl I worked with luckily is a good acquaintance and very efficient, so my usual horror of partner/group work was not confirmed.
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And just now I sat in on an "open workshop" on Posthumanism (with the writers and publishers of a series of books about Critical Posthumanism), which was awesome. Academia at work! And I even asked a question which doesn't seem to have been stupid or off-topic, because it sparked a lively discussion among them and whether the life sciences and the humanities can/should communicate on such issues as Cyborgization. (It was all, "The scientist get more funding! They hate us! They don't reflect on their work at all!" self pity but then it got better.) And then there was much LULZ because of course Cultural Studies writers can't go for an hour without citing Buffy. (There's, like, a robot! It's totally posthumanist!) And the profound statement that "Japan is a *particular* country." Yes, it seems to be.
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And just now I sat in on an "open workshop" on Posthumanism (with the writers and publishers of a series of books about Critical Posthumanism), which was awesome. Academia at work! And I even asked a question which doesn't seem to have been stupid or off-topic, because it sparked a lively discussion among them and whether the life sciences and the humanities can/should communicate on such issues as Cyborgization. (It was all, "The scientist get more funding! They hate us! They don't reflect on their work at all!" self pity but then it got better.) And then there was much LULZ because of course Cultural Studies writers can't go for an hour without citing Buffy. (There's, like, a robot! It's totally posthumanist!) And the profound statement that "Japan is a *particular* country." Yes, it seems to be.
