tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post8847713245033939109..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Chaucer conference blogging (2)This old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-75074163298565255922008-07-27T08:10:00.000+10:002008-07-27T08:10:00.000+10:00I definitely agree, Stephanie, that we can't all j...I definitely agree, Stephanie, that we can't all just stand around saying, "hey, your work is wonderful," "you're great, don't ever change" [haha--to cadge from some bad 1970s psycho-babble]. The trick, for me, would be how to generate critical conversations in which Foucalt's curiosity and Bersani's impersonal narcissism could somehow work together to allow everyone to do the work they want to Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-54911106807405265602008-07-27T08:05:00.000+10:002008-07-27T08:05:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-45377243288726655412008-07-27T06:55:00.000+10:002008-07-27T06:55:00.000+10:00Eileen, these are great comments, thanks.They reso...Eileen, these are great comments, thanks.<BR/><BR/>They resonate with the discussion on psychoanalysis (are you doing it? and if not, why not?) over at In the Middle, and yes, the question of ethics at conferences and in blogging. Who is fair target? I guess none of us is as robust or strong about receiving criticism - direct or implied - as we would like to think.<BR/><BR/>And yet for us all to This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-9917778713389445172008-07-27T03:34:00.000+10:002008-07-27T03:34:00.000+10:00And then I also came across this quotation from Fo...And then I also came across this quotation from Foucault, from toward the end of his career, in which he is commenting on his thinking/work on "The History of Sexaulity," and which I think is apropos to your post here:<BR/><BR/>"It was curiosity—the only kind of curiosity, in any case, that is worth acting upon with a degree of obstinacy: not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-34169308590578394632008-07-25T03:29:00.000+10:002008-07-25T03:29:00.000+10:00Stephanie: I shouldn't even be online right now as...Stephanie: I shouldn't even be online right now as I am way past deadline on a book Afterword I promised, um, in March, then April, then May, then June, then July, BUT: your post here, and its evocation of the troubling [on both the personally emotional and more broadly inter-connected professional levels] line that exists between, as you put it, "historicism (these are real people) and formalismEileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com