Friday, November 16, 2007

Twenty Academic Papers in One Day Can Really Do a Number on You

Raced to five sessions, squeezed in a thai lunch (Kleman had never tried Pad Thai!), laughed with the department at lunch and at dinner eating Rezas. As the day progressed, I alternately decided 1.) to become a Deleuze scholar, 2.) that media research as a field is bankrupt, 3.) that I was too old, tired and elsewhere-focused to pursue scholarship as a profession.