how're you liking babylon 5? i can't believe i never watched it before now. i'm in the middle of season three now and i'm completely hooked, despite a few things.
This warrants a longer conversation, so I'll probably send you an e-mail about it later, but I'm in the last few episodes of Season 2 and starting to be pretty drawn in. As you said, there are a few things that bother me, but I think it is pretty great all in all.
In regard to your last paragraph, I would say that the most satisfying cultural experiences I have had since (albeit briefly) attempting to sever connections with "mainstream" culture have been, in fact, my mainstream indulgences, which now give me a feeling of solidarity with the world at large that I wouldn't have had prior to being involved in radical culture.
And in regard to your ideas about the "hipster", the narrowness of your definition surprises me, because the usage of the term seems to be really nebulous.
i like your second idea quite a bit, but as a husserlian purist, i'm extremely troubled by your use of the term "phenomenology," when what you are referring to has little or nothing to do with object-intention modes of consciousness. with all due respect, you're conflating a study of a cultural phenomenon (and its consequent levels of social estrangement) with the philosophical method of phenomenology, which has almost nothing to do with social interactions. use of the method is and has always been confined to the study of first-person existence qua sense-based or intuitive epistemological wills. i'm not quite sure what you'd accomplish in terms of a "phenomenological study of the 'hipster,'" when it sounds like what you actually want to be doing is a sort of buber-inspired ontological investigation of "i-it" object relationships in the manifest social universe.
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also, if you're about to read ulysses, you should definitely get your hands on: 1) a copy of vladimir nabokov's map of joyce's dublin (he taught
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p.s. I would like to have intimate relations with dr. franklin.
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And in regard to your ideas about the "hipster", the narrowness of your definition surprises me, because the usage of the term seems to be really nebulous.
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< /philosophy major wankery>
also, if you're about to read ulysses, you should definitely get your hands on:
1) a copy of vladimir nabokov's map of joyce's dublin (he taught ( ... )
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Oh, you said husserlian purist.
Thanks for the Joyce recs. Will keep in mind!
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