bluff the magic dragon

bluff
ach!

more controlled in a classroom setting then had i discovered that it's mostly bluffing that people make
academia became dibs calling with fancy jargons for decoration's sake
relates not to real life
gar nicht

bypasses

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on readings -

it's already hard to get hold of the brim of ideas, like
empiricism
Enlightenment

just, why does it say even
SCOTTISH empiricism
German Enlightenment

that's very much enough
why hadn't I been a historian :OOO

EPISTEMOLOGY!

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And very thank you I've forgotten all about the Rape of Lock
now eye wide at my past adoration and eureka
what a waste, what a waste

Specifisch zu sein sollen.

not quite like honeymoon

not in the mood for reading
not in the mood for reading
not in the mood for reading at all

if there were less reading maybe i would like it better
not that im a lazy reader but the amount is really ugh too much

i dont know if its too much for a native speaker
but it is too much for me the non native speaker who has yet tuned in for study
i needed some more time for transition

and i need a good balance between studying on my own doing the much reading and
talking to people from which i can also learn a great deal
as if ive gotten over the social barrier
meh

i oughta be more critical shouldnt i, this trait carried by brainiacs
but how i am to when peers are banks of knowledge, reservoirs of new unheard-of perspectives
its exhausting

i probably dont have to look brainy but be modest and learn but hail
its dangerous to be modest and quiet

TIRED

first lecture on global history - the cosmic

the study of global history only came about in the first half of the 19th century

the common perception is that globalization started in the late 70s, so around the time of/ after the world wars, when the 'new world' emerged. while its true that the growth of FDI, migration blahblah had accelerated then, should we, however assume this so? what exactly is globalization?

ponder on: imperial evidence

and, what is interdisciplinary, and how is global studies 'inter-'disciplinary? some disciplines, now, have taken the assumption of national state for granted e.g. sociology - the study of society, but which; history, the study of history, often of particular domain

can it be considered a 'post-'disciplinary study, i.e. the new understanding of the organization of disciplines.

Globalization, the approach towards the global conditions (the global conditions the reality)

what spatial term is there? it is constructed, invented, named and referenced to by contemporary actors. ponder on deterritorialization and reterritorialization

cross-border entities create new identities e.g. transnational companies

the circular relation between flows and gloablization; the tension between control e.g. customs, and flows, from which manifests conflicts like black market and illegal immigration

ponder on the history of passports

arising of supranatural organization e.g. the EU, the African Union, which are new forms of control

protest: trade unions

methodology-wise, how are we to use statistics of national level to conduct quantitative analyses in the global scale; how are we to leverage on area studies, which possibly deny or are reserved towards global studies? we are not to dissolve them...

Weiter des Lichtfests und Unterricht des Bibliotheks

there was this Lichtfest just now at Augustplatz, for the commemoration of the Vereinigung.

probably somewhat the mayor spoke, and then a really good drama performance, aber auf Deutsch.

Hardly understanding much I captured
- Prag Fruehling (erfolglos...aber spaeter gibt es Velvet Revolution); anecdote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach. mehr unter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
- Warten auf Godot

also habe ich gesurft, dann erinnere ich mich daran...
- Tom Stoppard, who wrote Waiting for Godot. and so he also wrote Rock 'n Roll, and so he was born Czechoslovakia - and i dont remember a thing about this play except that i said i liked it - pathetic. dammit i read The Real Thing too but now i remember Nothing. QUATSCH (Ach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%C4%9Bk_plays)
- Harold Pinter, who wrote The Birthday Party...

egal...

The above led me to finding also...
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - also! ich habe es lang gehoert aber ich weisse gar nicht, was das Schauspiel ueber ist. deshalb habe ich das online gefunden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being - und es scheint zu GUT!!! (und hier ist der Moment, wenn ich erkenne, dass ich Kunst und Literatur sehr viel besser als Geschichte und Sociologie mag orz - Eureka!)

Mehr zu lesen:
- Der erste President von Czech war ein Dramatiker (!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

Und frueher des Tags learnte ich auch ueber Kopernikus. Der Instuktor der Bibliothek moechte wir das Nationalitaet von Kopernikus finden. Das Polnische Maedchen sagte sofort, dass er Polnisch war. Schliesslich haben wir aber gefunden, dass beiden Deutschland und Polen Kopernikus immer wollten. Aber Kopernikus und ihnen Mitwelt kuemmernten sich gar nicht um Nationalitaet.
- Nationalitaet ist eine sehr moderne Idee
- Im Zeitablauf hat die Grenze des Polens sehr anders geaendert
- Kopernikus und andere Intellektualle schrieb im Latin...

! ka-ching!

first night talk at leipzig

8 Oktober 2013
first night talk with friends indeed people whom i only knew for less than a week
AMAZING
MIND BLOWN AWAY
extravaganza adjectives dont spell how in awe i am
but neither am i equipped with the knowledge to show but tell

what was covered, for the record
woman rights, business corporate and politics
woman man equality, the glass ceiling (is there this) and unfair feedback towards same behavior of creatures of opposite gender, say crying, cut-throat blah
US, UK, Germany politics, how the left right wings are converging, the not so hateful republicans and david cameron aligning more with democrates than republicans, further up and down the timeline bush and al gore and obama and clinton
how the constitution or the foundation was indeed meant to be only a scape of ideas rather than the rigid rock
big and small
how facebook and screens are addictive and taking away our time and (yes indeed)
meditation (will it work on me)

eye wide open

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things for read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

ach i wanna know this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein