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The US secretary of state has harshly criticised the sentencing of dozens of non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers in Egypt.
John Kerry desribed the conviction and sentencing by an Egyptian court on Tuesday of 43 foreign nationals as "incompatible with the transition to democracy."
The court sentenced the group of Americans, Europeans, Egyptians and other Arabs in a case against democracy promotion groups.
Beginning in late 2011, Egypt's crackdown on organisations which included US-based groups linked to America's two main political parties caused outrage in Washington, which supplies Cairo with $1.3bn in military aid each year.
The government said the NGOs were operating illegally in Egypt and complained that after the revolt that deposed longtime President Hosni Mubarak, the US government had diverted $150m from its Egypt aid budget to these NGOs, breaking bilateral agreements.
Tough statement
The State Department issued a tough statement in Kerry's name but did not hint at any consequences - such as a cut in US assistance to Egypt - as a result of the verdict.
"The United States is deeply concerned by the guilty verdicts and sentences ... handed down by an Egyptian court today against 43 NGO representatives in what was a politically motivated trial," he said.
"The decision to close these organisations' offices and seize their assets contradicts the government of Egypt's commitments to support the role of civil society as a fundamental actor in a democracy."
The Egyptian investigation focused on charges that the groups were operating without necessary approvals and had received funds from abroad illegally.
The judge on Tuesday gave five-year sentences to 27 defendants tried in absentia including 15 US citizens.
Another American who stayed for trial was given a two-year sentence but left Egypt on Tuesday on the advice of his lawyers.
A German woman was also given a two-year sentence.
Suspended sentences
The other defendants sentenced in absentia included citizens of Norway, Serbia, Germany and Arab states.
Eleven Egyptians who faced lesser charges were handed one-year suspended sentences.
The court ordered the closure of the NGOs involved in the case, including the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Freedom House.
Both NDI and IRI plan to challenge the verdict.
The Americans sentenced in absentia include the son of Ray LaHood, the US transportation secretary.
At one point Egypt placed travel bans on the suspects, including US citizens who took refuge in the US embassy.
They were allowed to leave the country on bail of $330,000 each, money that ultimately came from the US government.
Egypt was run at the time by a military council that assumed power from Mubarak.
Robert Becker, the American who stayed for the trial and a former NDI employee, boarded a flight for Rome shortly after the verdict against him was read, Cairo airport sources said.
"On my lawyers' advice, I have unwillingly gone into exile until appeals get sorted out," he wrote on his Twitter account.
Germany 'outraged'
The German sentenced to two years is an employee of the Berlin-based Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
"We are outraged and very concerned about the court's harsh decisions against the employees of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Cairo and the order to close the office," Guido Westerwelle, German foreign minister, said.
Last week, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 40 Egyptian rights groups said an Egyptian draft law regulating non-governmental organisations would restrict the funding and operation of independent groups.
The contentious bill, proposed by President Mohamed Morsi and currently under debate by the country's interim legislature, would allow the state to control nonprofits' activities as well as their domestic and international funding, HRW said.
The current form of the bill is a serious regression from earlier versions, HRW said.
Source: Agencies
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surface / depth, fiction / autofiction (part 1)
An interesting parallel, perhaps. This is from Elaine Blair's review of Rachel Cusk's Outline in The New Yorker:
The novel is mesmerizing; it marks a sharp break from the conventional style of Cusk's previous work. The characters in her earlier novels presumably share some of her biography—they age as she does, study or teach literature, raise children, tend to the chores of daily life in London or in provincial towns. But they remain smoothly sealed in their fictional worlds. "Outline" feels different, its world porous and continuous with ours, though not for the reasons we might expect. Cusk has not named her narrator Rachel. She does not put a fine point on the verifiability of the novel's events. Though the narrator is a writer, the novel does not tell the story of how it came to be written. It is not an expansive account of a life but a short account of two days that the narrator spends teaching a writing seminar in Athens. Indeed, "Outline" proposes an unexpected solution to the weariness with fiction which Anne calls "summing up": Cusk has her characters literally sum things up, making them speak about past events rather than showing those events as they unfold. To paraphrase Anne, why manipulate characters into situations dramatizing jealousy when they can tell us about their jealousy?
And this is from Jeffrey J. Williams's piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education called "The New Modesty in Literary Criticism":
The change has crystallized around "surface reading." The term comes from Sharon Marcus, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and Stephen M. Best, an associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. Marcus broached it in her 2007 book Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton University Press), and elaborated on it in the introduction she wrote with Best to a 2009 special issue of the journal Representations on "The Way We Read Now." (They had been colleagues at Berkeley in the late 1990s and early 2000s.) Surface reading, they suggest, characterizes the work of a rising generation.
A good deal of contemporary criticism has performed "symptomatic reading," a term that conveys looking for the hidden meaning of a text, using, for example, Marxian, Freudian, or deconstructive interpretation. Fredric Jameson has been one of its most influential practitioners, codifying the approach in his 1981 Political Unconscious to look for "a latent meaning behind a manifest one." Surface reading instead focuses on "what is evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts," as Best and Marcus put it. Thus the critic is no longer like a detective who doesn't trust the suspect but more the social scientist who describes the manifest statements of a text.
Between Women shows how this works. Marcus examines female friendships in Victorian society, but rather than exposing the secrets underneath normative family life—as much of queer theory, for example, has done—she shows how women's relations were openly affectionate and sometimes sexual, but not secret, suppressed, or hidden in a closet. Surprisingly, she writes, the companionship among women provided a model for heterosexual marriage. While Marcus gathers her argument from the surface, she casts a wide scholarly net, drawing from Victorian fiction, fashion, domestic treatises, political debates. Marcus calls her approach "just reading."
So, on the one hand, a new post-fictional stance, or at least one that abandons the rules of the game that fiction writers have long embraced as conducive to the evocation of meaning or significance, however half-lit or opaque. If fiction has long been invested in the distinction between what characters say (to others, to themselves, to us) and what they do – that is to say, fiction has had a long standing investment in what we call irony – Cusk (and others like her) seem to be advocating the abandonment of half of the ironic equation. He says he is in mourning for his wife, but why does he keep staring at his interlocutor's breasts? She says she doesn't have a problem with her parents, but why does she keep darting off to take phone calls from her father?
On the other hand, Williams's piece on literary criticism likewise evokes scholars and critics giving up on a parallel fundamental move of criticism: the discovery and description of latent meanings that subtend the surface playout of the text. Rather than, like the psychoanalyst who knows that "It's not about my mother" means no such thing, means the opposite of what it claims, scholars have generally taken an approach grounded in a sense that whatever it is a text thinks it's up to (or the naive reader believes it's up to) something else has to be at play. This novel is ostensibly about the relations between men and women, but why are the relations between men so much more pitched, interesting, and troubling than those between the two sexes? The stance described – perhaps a bit roughly – by Williams abandons the ironic relation between surface and depth that criticism of so many schools and guises, both conservative and 'radical,' has held as its privileged locus of significance.
notes on the novel, genre, woolwich
What else does the novel, by the very nature of its elemental form, teach us than that there is some relation, or at least should be, between our internal subjective states and the world in which we move. Foreground / background. Protagonist / context. Romance / history. The family / the city. Wires run between the one to the other, from the outside in and back again. Almost every name of a novelistic subgenre or period movement (realism, naturalism, modernism, postmodernism, to name just a few of the recent ones) names a different mode of wiring. Shifts in genre represent new ideas about how to write the machine. How tangled or untangled it is, how many wires run hither and how many yon, what buttons there are to push to control the voltage and wattage of the link up, how much bandwidth in total is carried.
Has there ever been a "terrorist attack" as uncanny as the one that happened yesterday in Woolwich? And uncanny is the right word – utterly familiar (tropes of beheading, tropes of "bringing the fight back to the oppressor," the visibility of violence) yet at the same time utterly not (the refusal of both escape or self-immolative martyrdom, the implicit invocation of the laws of war when it comes to "innocent bystanders," the further refusal to "let the event speak for itself," or be spoken for by leadership organisations far away and ex post facto, or through pre-recorded statements aired after the event, and the immediate extinguishing of the fear of further attacks, at least by the same actors, as per Boston). With this one, we seem to slip from the genre called "terrorism" to something else: a gruesome morality play about the calculus of war, the algebra of carnage. Street theatre allegory that trades the fake blood for the real.
So was it the "genre shift" that explains the strange reactions of the bystanders who observed the attack and its aftermath? Women reportedly ran over, in the course of the attack itself, to attempt to help the dying or dead soldier, thinking that the three actors in this play were rehearsing an all-too-common everyday scene we call "a car accident." Who was it, and why was it, that someone stayed to film a man whose arms were drenched in blood, who carried a knife and a cleaver in his left hand, while he delivered his final soliloquy? What to make of these recorded conversations between the killers and their audience?
Is there a better answer than that a genre had been disrupted or reinvented, and thus the rules that normal apply (murders try to escape, bystanders flee, etc) were unavailable for consultation?
Genre is also another name for myth. While it sometimes postures as science, it has far more in common with superstition. Throw salt over your shoulder, and lucky will occur. One character says something, the other, naturally, touches wood. We now, in our pharmacologically-lexiconed period, are far more likely to call superstitious practices the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. One has to check, and check again, that the water's not running in the bathroom before one leaves the flat. Push hard three times on the front door to make sure it's locked… or else another storyline will ensue, the one that has an evening return to a gaping door, the laptop gone, the bedroom drawers dumped. This is literally it – some sort of chemical depletion or superfluity occurs, some traumatic event takes place, and then an almost mystical belief in certain irrational storylines takes over. To disobey the mandates of genre is to open oneself to an unhappy ending.
Last night: this news-story. On television and especially on the web. Fraught conversations about the arithmetic of death. And then a phone call. Bad news of the sort that late night phone calls usually bring. The trope of the middle-aged son and the ailing parent. The novel teaches us to think of the one thing as related, if complex, to the other. At least metaphorically, or even just formally. What is happening out there of course is a prelude to what is about to happen right in here, in the space of the family home and especially the skulls (and bodies) of those that inhabit it.
Think of the script. The call in the night in the movie. The early middle-aged son who ignores the call momentarily, caught up as he is in an argument about the gruesome news on television. The politics of violence, the physics of the world system. The cigarette whose space allows a second thought, a second glance at the mobile phone. Ominous – we can imagine what will happen next. The film that will play out from its start in a graphic sequence of news images morphs into a dark family drama. How does one cope when the worst comes home to roost?
A fallacy (a word quite close to "myth" and "superstition") that doesn't have a name, one that is hardwired into the DNA of the novel as a form. I've tried to name it in things that I've written, in seminars that I've led. Sometimes it seems to have more to do with temporality. What happens after what, or at the same times as each other. We could call it presumptive fallacy. Retro-prospective fallacy. The fallacy of coincidence. Sometimes it's simply about the structural mandate that the foreground be read in the light of the background and vice versa. Contextual fallacy? Flaubert, disrupter through over-fulfilment of so many genre mandates, so early in the game, was aware of the problem. Think of Frédéric waiting for Madame Arnoux while the revolution kicks off a few blocks away in L'Éducation sentimentale. The New Critics liked to label fallacies on the part of the reader. I am more interested in the fallacies inherent in artistic forms themselves, even though obviously these can turn into the former and often do through the sort of training that novels provide.
But of course, myths are also true in a very serious sense. I don't simply mean that what we believe we are. What we think is the only thing there is. Although that may well be true. In this case, it is also useful to think of myth or superstition or even fallacy as a customary practice, a mode of operation, running orders against confusion. The world, as we know, lives out the demands of its many operative genres every single day. Perhaps now as much as ever. A myth is habitus, generated by practice, an operating manual written and re-written each time we act.
The novel makes us stupid in one sense, solipsistic, tends to make us look for our angle on things, what does this mean to us? What were the attackers yesterday, in both his words and deeds, and deeds both during and after the attack, trying to say to me? Or at least us? There is a counter-instinct, for those disciplined a certain way, to try to climb up the ladder of transcendent wisdom, to disavow the inwrought narcissism of our conditioned response. To gasp and yell when the news commentators reduce a global to a local question, an a serious question to a matter of insanity or unanchored spite. They might think what they want, but they have no right to act it out here. To force us into these stringent attempts to adjust the genre back to something we're comfortable with.
But the attempt to climb out of the fray of self-interest, however complex, however Wallace-ianly convoluted and self-reflexive, is of course a trope in yet another sort of story, another sort of myth, one that – we need to remind ourselves – has the deepest affinities with an imperial mindset, one that takes the world panoptically, one for whom impersonality is a transferable skill.
What retards political development – and really contemporary thought as a whole – more right now than an inability to come to terms with the relationship between the self, located wherever it might be, and the world-system as a whole? At least here where we are? What are we, sequestered in the posh uptowns and suburbs of the global system, meant to think or say when we are in the wrong jurisdiction? We know not to fall into the ethical mode, charity is of no use, but there may be an exitless cloverleaf, a highway cul de sac, ahead if
Despite all the complicities of the novel, these generic demands and the demands of its sub-genres, the promise remains that the bad faith strictures themselves make space for revelatory manipulation, clarifying detournage. They even, potentially, lead us toward the formulation of simpler questions, question more pressing in their semi-solipsistic simplicity. Like this one, that with the little revision, some shifts in seemingly inevitable consequence, the script I outlined above could be made to ask:
Who has to die in the prime of life, and who is afforded the luxury of death that comes at an actuarially appropriate stage?
first thoughts on coetzee's "the childhood of jesus"
I was asked by students and others several times last week what I made of Coetzee's new novel. I've been a bit annoyed with myself that I haven't really had any good answers yet, and have been forced to make the same gestures towards "bafflement" that just about all the reviews I've read have made. But I'm starting to think that its our bafflement itself that we should be looking into – that there's more to be made of it than a shoulder-shrug.
Chris Tayler, in his review of the novel in the LRB, gives us a good start at a list of the questions begged but left unanswered in the course of the narrative:
As a reading experience it's utterly absorbing, with almost painful levels of meta-suspense as you try to work out where the story is aiming to lead you. Questions are as close as Coetzee comes to direct statements, and the novel is richly generative of these. Is the world it depicts an afterlife, a pre-life, a mere stage in an unending transmigration of souls, a realm of ideal images as discussed in Coetzee's recent essay on Gerald Murnane in the New York Review of Books, or none of the above? How does the Jesus plot fit in with this? How come Inés has access to sausages? Do the deadpan jokes get less frequent or just ascend to a higher sphere?
One of the things that I try to teach my students is to developed a more nuanced take on literary "difficulty." Most of us, especially when we're starting out at reading "difficult" books and thus insecure about our ability to understand, let alone intrepret, them, take it on instinct that there always is something to figure out in such works. One acquires a "reader's guide" to Ulysses, one takes up the challenge of the notes at the end of The Waste Land – one struggles to "solve" the riddles of the poems, to understand the allusions, etc. But what if (so I argue in my first-year seminars) we're meant in dealing with these texts not so much to penetrate the difficult but to have an experience of difficulty's opacity itself. (My favourite example is to use in teaching is the beginning of the second section of The Waste Land, where I think Eliot's putting us through a sort of routine having to do with the "dissociation of sensibility." We simply can't see the image described, and perhaps that's meant to make us feel our own post-lapsarianness…)
Why does Inés have access to meat – and what is La Residencia in the first place?
It has been a preoccupation of Coetzee's for quite awhile, to tantalise the reader with the sense that there are answers to questions raised by the text, that there is an interrogate-able reality lurking behind the narrative itself, and thus, when the answers fail to arrive, perhaps to push the reader back into an awareness of her or his own need for answers in the first place. (Think for instance of Disgrace, where the reader is left in the same position as David Lurie himself – completely unable to understand the reasons why his daughter Lucy does what she does [or doesn't do what she doesn't do] in the wake of her rape.) In this case, why, in the end, are we bothered by Inés's access to sausages? Why are we worried about the nature of La Residencia? It feels as though, at the beginning of the work, Simón would have asked them too – but by the end of the novel, he's lost his appetite for questions of this sort – his appetite for questions about appetite and its fulfilment. In other words, the reader's persistence in wondering falls out of sync with the characters in the text – it's we readers who remain new arrivals at Novilla.
Likewise with the question "How does the Jesus plot fit in with this?" Not only is the abstraction inherent in this sort of typology or allegorical sense incompatible with the putative Jesus's incessant refusal of such abstraction, but the question is exactly the sort that Coetzee's fiction time and again refuses to solve for us – or stages the struggle and failure to solve on the part of his characters. Again, think of Lurie's attempts to place is daughter into a discernable "category" of rape victim after their attack, or even more pressingly, the efforts of the administrators of the camp that Michael K ends up in at the end of his novel to deduce the "meaning" of this man who has come into their care and custody.
Michaels means something, and the meaning he has is not private to me. If it were, if the origin of this meaning were no more than a lack in myself, a lack, say, of something to believe in, since we all know how difficult it is to satisfy a hunger for belief with the vision of times to come that the way, to say nothing of the camps, presents us with, if it were a mere craving for meaning that sent me to Michaels and his story, if Michaels himself were no more than what he seems to be (what you seem to be), a skin-and-bones man with a crumpled lip (pardon me, I name only the obvious), then I would have every justification for retiring to the toilets behind the jockey's changing-rooms and locking myself into the last cubicle and putting a bullet through my head.
With just a shift of a few details and a reduction in intensity, this passage from Michael K could stand as a rendition of what I was feeling when asked last week "what the new novel means" and probably isn't all that far away from the sort of frustration that the reviewers felt as they worked up their pieces for the magazines, or so I guess…
Coetzee is often – with obvious justification – labelled a "meta-fictional" writer: his works build on and distort previous literary works, or are "about" the act of writing itself. But they are also books that generate – or should generate – a sort of "meta-reading." Just as the writer is writing about writing, when we read them, we are reading about reading. Or at least that seems to be the point. Were a new (or even the first) messiah to arrive on earth, would we be so concerned with his meaning and relation to precedent, his conformity or lack of conformity to the models that we would impose, that we would fail to listen to him right from the start? With inherited instrumental logics and instinct to abstract categorization, our need to extract reified meanings from things, would we be able to read him at all?
"against the grain": on critical perversity
At the place where I teach, we still have the students do two courses (one at the beginning of their time with us, and one at the end) in "practical criticism." We don't call it that (we just call it "criticism") but that's what it is. If we were an American institution, we'd think of it descending out of what is termed "The New Criticism," but because we are where we are, it's seen as an import from Cambridge. As the folks to the north-north east describe it on their department website:
Practical criticism is, like the formal study of English literature itself, a relatively young discipline. It began in the 1920s with a series of experiments by the Cambridge critic I.A. Richards. He gave poems to students without any information about who wrote them or when they were written. In Practical Criticism of 1929 he reported on and analysed the results of his experiments. The objective of his work was to encourage students to concentrate on 'the words on the page', rather than relying on preconceived or received beliefs about a text. For Richards this form of close analysis of anonymous poems was ultimately intended to have psychological benefits for the students: by responding to all the currents of emotion and meaning in the poems and passages of prose which they read the students were to achieve what Richards called an 'organised response'. This meant that they would clarify the various currents of thought in the poem and achieve a corresponding clarification of their own emotions.
If you've been a reader of this site for awhile, or are familiar with my work in "the real world," you might think that'd I'd buck against this model of instruction. Any good materialist critic of course should. It approaches the literary work in isolation of its context – the work as an ahistorical entity that emerged autonomously and without the frictional influence of the writer who wrote it or the world that the writer wrote it in.
But on the other hand – and this is why I not only do not buck against it but actively enjoy teaching on this course, perhaps more than any other – it is an extremely valuable method for enabling students to develop "against the grain" critical insights about texts. In the absence of astute attention of the "practical criticism" variety, it's very difficult for students (or, really, anyone) to develop convincingly novel interpretations of texts. The close attention to the words on the page, and the dynamics of their interaction, not only sets the stage for an appreciation of the "value added" that comes of distilling whatever contextual and personal issues inform the piece once the history is added back in, but, due to the multiplicity and idiosyncrasy of possible interpretations, provides an opening for critical newness – for the saying of something provocatively different about the work.
So how do I teach "practical criticism"? In the seminar groups that I lead, I model and encourage the following "flow chart" of thought: Anticipate what other intelligent readers of this piece might say about it. Try to imagine the "conventional wisdom" about it that would emerge as if automatically in the minds of the relatively well-informed and intelligent. And then, but only then, figure out a perverse turn that you can make within the context of but against this conventional wisdom. "Of course that seems right, but on the other hand it fails to account for…" "On first glace, it would be easy and to a degree justifiable to conclude that…. But what if we reconsider this conclusion in the light of…."
Students tend to demonstrate resistance, early on, to this practice. For one thing, especially in the first year, they don't really (and couldn't possibly) have a fully developed sense of what the "conventional wisdom" is that their supposed to be augmenting, contradicting, perverting. At this early stage, the process requires them to make an uncomfortable Pascalian wager with themselves – to pretend as though they are confident in their apprehensions until the confidence itself arrives. But even if there's a certain awkwardness in play, it does seem to exercise the right parts of the students' critical and analytical faculties so that they (to continue the metaphor) develop a sort of "muscle memory" of the "right" way to do criticism. From what I can tell, encouraging them to develop an instinct of this sort early measurably improves their writing as they move through their degree.
But still (and here, finally, I'm getting to the point of this post) there's a big problem with all of this. I warn the students of this very early on – generally the first time I run one of their criticism seminars. There's a big unanswered question lurking behind this entire process. Why must we be perverse? What is the value of aiming always for provocative difference, novelty, rather than any other goal? Of course, there's a pragmatic answer: Because it will cause your writing to be better received. Because you will earn better marks by doing it this way rather than the other. Because you will develop a skill – one that can be shifted to other fields of endeavour – that will be recognised as what the world generally calls "intelligence." But – in particular because none of this should simply be about the pragmatics of getting up the various ladders and depth charts of life – this simply isn't a sufficient response, or at least is one that begs as many questions as it answers. What are, after all the politics of "novelty"? What are we to make of the structural similarity between what it takes to impress one's markers and what it takes to make it "on the market," whether as a human or inhuman commodity? What if – in the end – the answers to question that need (ethically, politically) answering are simple rather than complex, the obvious rather than the surprising?
In my own work, I'm starting to take this issue up. And I try to keep it – when it's appropriate – at the centre of my teaching, even if that can be difficult. (And there's the further matter that to advocate "simple" rather than "complex" answers to things is itself an "against the grain" argument, is itself incredibly perverse, at least within an academic setting. There's a fruitful performative contradiction at play that, in short, makes my advocacy of non-perversity attractively perverse!)
I'll talk more about what I'm arguing in this new work some other time, but for now, I'm after something else – something isomorphic with but only complexly related to the issues with "practical criticism" and the issues that it raises. It has to do with politics – in particular the politics of those of a "theoretical" or in particular "radically theoretical" mindset, and the arguments that they make and why they make them.
Take this article that appeared yesterday on The Guardian's "Comment is free" website. The title of the piece (which of course was probably not chosen by the author, but is sanctioned I think by where the piece ends up) is "What might a world without work look like?" and the tag under the title continues, "As ideas of employment become more obscure and desperate, 2013 is the perfect time to ask what it means to live without it." While the first two-thirds of the article is simply a description of the poor state of the labour market, it is the end that gets to the "provocative" argument at play.
But against this backdrop – rising inflation, increasing job insecurity, geographically asymmetrical unemployment, attacks on the working and non-working populations, and cuts to benefits – a debate about what work is and what it means has been taking place. Some discussions at Occupy focused on what an anti-work (or post-work) politics might mean, and campaigns not only for a living wage but for a guaranteed, non-means-tested "citizen's income" are gathering pace.
The chances of a scratchcard winning you a life without work are of course miniscule, but as what it means to work becomes both more obscure and increasingly desperate, 2013 might be the perfect time to ask what work is, what it means, and what it might mean to live without it. As Marx put it in his 1880 proposal for a workers' inquiry: "We hope to meet … with the support of all workers in town and country who understand that they alone can describe with full knowledge the misfortunes from which they suffer and that only they, and not saviours sent by providence, can energetically apply the healing remedies for the social ills that they are prey to."
In other words, the best place to start would be with those who have a relation to work as such – which is to say nearly everyone, employed or otherwise.
It may be a somewhat bad faith line to allege that "interesting perversity" rather than some well-founded and straightforward belief is at work behind an argument of this sort, but in the absence of any substantive suggestions of what the answers to these questions might be, or in fact why these are the right questions to ask at the moment, what else are we to assume? It is provocatively perverse to suggest, at a time of stagnant employment rate and when people are suffering due to the fact that they are out of work or locked in cycles or precarity, that we might do away with work altogether. It isn't the standard line – but it's a line that allows the author to avoid repeating the conventional wisdom about what a left response to such a crisis might be. This in turn affords an avenue to publication, as well as a place in the temporary mental canons of those who read it.
Unfortunately, of course, the Tories (and their ideological near-cousins in all of the other mainline parties) are also asking the same sort of questions about a world (or at least a nation) without work. How might one keep the tables turned toward what benefits employers? How might one keep wages (and relatedly, inflation) low but still spur "growth"? How might one manage this system of precarious non-work, at once depressing wages but keeping the employable populace alive and not building barricades. In short, the question of "What a world without work might look like" is a question that is just as pressing to the powers that we oppose as to people like the writer of this article.
We've seen other episodes of the same. During the student protests over tuition increases (among other things) I myself criticised (and had a bit of a comment box scrap over) the Really Free School and those who were busily advocating the destruction of the university system…. just as the government was doing its best to destroy the university system. That many of those making such "radical" arguments about university education were themselves beneficiaries of just such an education only made matters more contradictory, hypocritical, and frustrating.
In short, in countering some perceived conventional wisdom, in begging questions that seem to derive from a radical rather than a "reformist" perspective, the author (and others of her ilk) ends up embracing an argument that is not only unhelpfully utopian, but actually deeply compatible with the very situation that seems to provoke the advocacy of such a solution. I can't help but sense that the same instinct towards perversity that makes for a good English paper – and, perhaps even more pressingly, a good work of reputation-building "theory" – is what drives a writer to take a line like this one at a time like this. One might counter that I'm being a bit of a philistine – that I'm closing off avenues of speculative thought and analysis. I'm not. I'm just wondering what the point of writing all this up in a questi0n-begging article in a popular publication is, an article that does little more than raise unanswerable questions and then ends with what might as well be the banging of a Zen gong.
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Let's definitely not extrapolate from personal (and privileged) experience…
Not feeling so great tonight at the thought that a) on the one hand someone told me I could potentially get paid £900 for this piece that I am supposed to be writing, a piece that I've basically (it seems incredibly clear) I've been angling basically my adult life to get, and I got excited, as believe you me the £900 would come in some serious handy…
b) The girl from downstairs, a first-year undergraduate at the university at which I teach, came up last night whilst I was out to ask my girlfriend if she could use out washing machine. Thing is, she had a job interview today and needed to wash some clothes for it. Out of politeness, said girlfriend said yes and then asked her what the interview was for. "Oh, Goldman Sachs. An internship!" Right. "It pays £10,000 a month – it's a month's work. I really need this! Thank so you much etc etc etc."
Look. I'm fine. I live beyond my means and seriously shouldn't complain and etc. But still… Jesus fucking christ does that stick in the craw amidst bank machine balance checking and aggressive notes from landlords and all the rest. Hard to imagine, in the end, that the value added that she adds to the world is etc.
Wonder if she got the job.
Strong sense tonight that it's time to FSU. And etc.
– a sense that somehow the historical and cultural situation has somehow turned such that it is arranged in a configuration that is on longer receptive to you, your thinking, your interjection.
– that ever so recently the world was a workbook of problem sets you were consistently able to solve and so very rapidly
– having done some sort of intellectual damage to yourself through the struggles (biological, psychological) you have endured recently in simply living
– you are aging and as you age time speeds up
– stuffy head, the pressure behind the eyes, the tightness in the chest
– there simply isn't in the day, no matter how clear, the when and where
– again and again, the same thought of Kafka, whose image hangs about your neck on a string of wellworn rosary beads
– the internet, or missing breakfast
– always another obligation, which preoccupies you from the second that you get up
– you are not taking things in the right order
– perhaps it's all of us at once
– problems that you are spending so much energy trying to solve are boring and thus you are bored
– becoming forgetful, a memory issue
– there is something or someone you are missing
– there is probably a computer program available to help
– the old forms are broken and your frustration and inability is itself a mark of your deeper aptitude
– the sense that there is another way to work, one fully compatible with or even a development directly out of your current situation
– or that if you wait for a bit, if you are patient, perhaps the high pressure system will settle once more over your life and the world itself, and you will find yourself standing in full light under a blue sky again, able at last to see
sunday post: performance piece
He is sitting behind a guy on the bus to Finsbury Park last week. Said guy is holding his iPhone such that it is easy to read what he is texting, the texts that he receiving. Her message is first and then his:
– still in bed x
– in cab x
The scenarios that would inform such a lie – he is not where he is supposed to be, he is trying to impress her and thinks (or know?) that bus travel isn't the fastest mode of transit into her deepest deep – proliferate in his mind until they don't.
Next he tells her that he is being sent to Bradford to cover some murders that happened, x.
He is sitting on a train, riding back from a conference in a small city (pop. 44,000). He is sitting with a young but still quite successful novelist and and another academic, a theorist. He talks to the novelist about reviewery, the vicissitudes of teaching writing, the advances that the latter received, the meeting that he himself is having with a literary agent this week. He, they, ignore the theorist, though later he will feel bad about this.
A couple is sitting in the seats across the aisle. She is reading a magazine, he a novel. Not long into the trip, he drops the book noisily on the table between them, pulls out his phone, and begins to play a game instead.
He wonders whether a) he was bored with the novel b) bothered by the volume of their conversation c) bothered by the content of their conversation.
Earlier, at the conference dinner, he receives advice about dealing with agents from a novelist who would know. She outlined the differences between working with a big agent at a small house and a small agent at a big house. Later she hinted at the possibility of him reviewing her next novel – joked about whether she would or wouldn't have him sent a copy, and then made a joke about the Canadian fishing village where his mother grew up, which she knew of, had even visited, or so she let on.
At this dinner, he fails to finish his quattro formaggi pizza, or even half of it. He had forgotten that this chain of Italian restaurants was the one where he doesn't like one of the cheeses on the quattro formaggi.
It is embarrassing, for a man of his size, not to finish – especially in England, where everyone finishes. He is relieved when the wait staff has taken the husk of it away while he is out for a cigarette.
Earlier than that, before the dinner, he worried throughout the conference about his extremely persistent cough. He worried for two reasons – that he was really bothering others in the audience was one reason.
When he meets a Canadian, say at a conference, he feels a need to prove his Canadianess to them, though he has only ever visited the place. Likewise, when he meets a writer of fiction, he needs to do the same – subtly somehow prove that, despite the fact he's published nothing nor has he tried to publish anything, at least prospectively he is one too.
The fact that he has a Canadian citizenship card does render the former task easier than the later, but both are in their way confidence games, aimed to sell himself as much as his interlocutor on aspects of his identity that are only themselves fictional, even if legally or prospectively true.
A review in The Forward of Joshua Cohen's forthcoming novel Witz ends on the following note:
At more than 800 pages of involved and unusual reading, "Witz" is a book for those who are prepared to spend the time and effort of a full 40-hour workweek reading a novel. It is a week of work that will be quite unlike any other you've ever experienced.
It has taken him at least a full 40-hour workweek to read it, but a work-week entirely conducted after-hours and on buses and trains.
At some point this weekend, he decides that he will work exclusively on his novel and not at all on his scholarly work, this summer. Though this, of course, is a lie.
On Sunday morning, he reads Terry Eagleton's review of Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22 in The New Statesman. Later, as he buys the book at his local book shop, the woman at the counter jokes about the picture on the cover, that it is a flattering one given what Hitchens looks like now. She uses at one point the word "sexy," but he misses the rest of the sentence and doesn't ask her to repeat it.
Later he uses the index to look for references to the graduate seminar that his wife took with Hitchens during the Fall of 2001 and finds just what he is looking for, which confirms one story that he told someone at the conference the day before. Other stories remain unconfirmed.
The night before, upon returning from the conference, he orders both of the young novelist's novels and discovers, to his surprise, that the young novelist is actually four months older than he is. This is a relief, and explains why this novelist groaned as loud as he did when saw the line on the backcover of Witz: "JOSHUA COHEN was born in 1980 in New Jersey."
He, like the young novelist, was born in 1976.
Later, when he discovers that a podcast of his conference lecture has been posted on the web, he watches it, calls his wife down to watch it. It's been a long time since she has seen him lecture, years.
She leaves him to it after a few minutes, clearly put off by his fascination with the video, the rapt attention that he pays, there at the kitchen table, to himself.
He takes decongestants for the cough to no avail – the cough persists. In addition, he has a strange, sore spot on his head, the back of his head. Sore to the touch, but the source of the pain is underneath the skin, between the scalp and the skull. He beat hypochondria, and beat it conclusively, years and years ago. But beating hypochondria brings its own dangers and with them its own even deeper fears.
He is reading Witz in the living room while he wife looks up options on sabbaticalhomes.com for the summer, for their daughter's summer break. Six weeks, from mid-July to the end of August. There are people eager to rent a place like his in London, people with kids, people willing to take care of cats, but no one with a place for rent in New York. He wonders if they should go to a European city instead, and she agrees that since they are here, they really should at least think about that. But Italy would be too hot, and so would Spain, and Paris they've done, and Germany is boring, and they've just been to Amsterdam. And he hasn't been to the new Yankee Stadium, though he promised he'd never in his life go there, a year or so ago.
Someone has a place available in Maplewood, New Jersey, located just at the base of South Mountain. A strange siren song sings itself in his heart, but no, for chrissake, come on. He suggests staying with his grandmother, in Nova Scotia, in the fishing village. Think about the babysitting.
On the train back from the conference, the novelist mentions that he and his girlfriend spent six months in Buenos Aires while he finished his second novel. When he and his wife were in Buenos Aires, just after the devaluation, they joked about buying an apartment with their credit card, putting down a downpayment anyway, but there was grad school to return to, work to return to.
Later he thinks that he is not sure there was a better time than when they were in Buenos Aires, and wonders if they shouldn't in fact go back for those six weeks.
He sends his father, who has never seen him teach, a link to the podcast of him lecturing. He anticipates receiving a message back telling him that he read too quickly, way too quickly, as his father once took a public speaking course with William F. Buckley's brother which seemed to have only two takeaway points: 1) Speak very slowly. 2) Print your speach with no more than 40-50 words per page.
But he is wrong, that's not what he gets in return. Rather, an hour later he receives an email from his father featuring a podcast starring an engineer from BP, explaining the efforts the corporation is taking to seal the leak in the Gulf. No reference, none at all, to his lecture in his father's email.
This surprises him for only about seven seconds, which is perhaps the time that it takes for things that are obvious and inevitable to unseat things that are wished for but impossible.
This is also the reason why this post – its form, its content, both together – exists.
Earlier, Sunday afternoon, he discusses all of the above, except of course for the things that would happen later, with his wife as they walk with the children into town to get some lunch. His older daughter assumes that her parents are fighting – pouts, fits, cries, and then demands that only her mother take her to lunch and that he father "go to work, because he has a lot of things to do at work."
Things spin a bit, his mind fills with anxiety, anger, guilt all at once. He is silent and away for the first ten minutes of lunch and then returns, tries to speak.


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Until last week, I had ridiculously little time one on one with my sweet, fat, happy baby Whit (aka Cookie.)
So, when the PCP caught that big yellow bus and rode off into the sun rise to start his Kindergarten adventure last week, it was a new beginning for Cookie and me too. Once the tears dried and my head cleared a bit, I pulled out age appropriate toys (think Thomas the Train and those shaped puzzles with the pegs) and the board books and sat down on the playroom floor with my baby. It started like this:
Me: Hi, I'm Mommy
Him: (with an odd look) Hi Mommy
Me: What's your name little baby?
Him: One
Me: No, silly. And that's not your age either.
*Wow, we've got quite a bit of work to do.*
Me: Your name is Whit.
Him: I Whit.
Me: How old are you, Whit?
Him: I Cookie.
Me: Yes, that's your other name. And you're two. Two years old. (holds up two fingers)
**I swear this child is smart. I know it. I just know he is!**
Me: Are you a boy or girl?
Him: I Batman.
**hmmmm....I'm pretty sure John had no earthly idea who or what Batman was at this stage in the game.**
Me: Are you a baby?
Him: No, I adult.
**This is going to be fun.**
With that, we spent the week doing just what two year olds do. Puzzles, trains, bubbles and the little tot playground at the park. We've slipped into our new routine quite well. And, since we seem to be playing the above conversation on a loop lately, I think we're going to go ahead and start practicing "almost three" for the "how old are you" question. :-)
Speaking of which, I'm off to play with the baby at the baby pool, of all places!
Hi Cookie, I'm Mommy
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4 comments:
So cute!! I could just eat him up! He has the most precious face. So fun! Enjoy your sweet time with him.ReplyDelete
Oh...so that's what PCP stands for! So cute! It will be nice to have the one on one time. I will still have that with my little one because we have half day kindergarten here. His day was actually a little longer in pre-K! Enjoy your precious time!ReplyDelete
you are cracking me up!!! Too funny and too true! Totally how it was with Faith. I'm still not sure if she knows she's in Kindergarten!! :)ReplyDelete
He is adorable! They are so sweet when they are little! Enjoy your time with both of them, it goes by so fast! It seems like yesterday that mine were that age and now they are 25, 21, and 19, and all I did was blink!ReplyDelete
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S. V. Polosatkin et al.
Fusion Science and Technology
Volume 55 / Number 2T / February 2009 / Pages 153-156
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First stage of neutral beam heating system was developed at the GOL-3 facility. Configuration of magnetic field and initial gas distribution were adopted for operation with NBI system. As a result the neutral beam with 0.5 MW power and 0.8 ms pulse duration was achieved and stable regimes suitable for beam injection experiments were found. The neutral beam system was used in first experiment as diagnostic tool for measuring the plasma density. Dynamics of plasma density and its radial distribution were studied in experiments.
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Walking Bomb is a puzzle game, You need perfect timing and a good strategy to pass through the levels. Collect fire and burn the zombie before it blasts itself. Avoid all the obstacle and hurdles to finish the levels. Many levels are there to play. Objective of the game is to complete the levels before it blasts. As you progress, there are other elements that make it very interesting. For example, you are sometimes given a box of dynamites. A wood cutter is also there to stop you.
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Gerard Coleman scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Providence defeated Fairleigh Dickinson 72-61 in a nonconference opener for both teams Saturday. Lonnie Hayes paced Fairleigh Dickinson of the Northeast Conference, scoring 26 points with four rebounds and four assists. Kinu Rochford managed a double-double for the Knights, finishing with 15 points and 12 rebounds. The game remained close throughout the first half and for much of the second. A layup by Providence forward Ron Giplaye with 3:00 remaining in the game gave the Friars of the Big East a double-digit lead and Fairleigh Dickinson never threatened to overcome that deficit. Freshman LaDontae Henton put together an impressive debut for Providence, contributing 10 points and six rebounds, and Vincent Council added 12 points and five assists. The game was Ed Cooley's first as coach of the Friars, who overcame 54.5 percent (12 of 22) free-throw shooting.
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ell, well, well, look who decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon. I know! I'm just as shocked as you are! I will admit I'm not prepared. In fact as I type this I'm not exactly sure what this post should be about. Fuck, I should have prepared. I guess we should start off with the mandatory introductory/ get-to-know-me post, shall we?
First things first—If you're anything like me then you're probably wondering…
Age, nationality, occupation, bra size?
(You know all that personal stuff that shouldn't matter, yet you can't help but wonder about a blogger.)
I am twenty-seven. Mexican. I was born in Mexico-Manzanillo, Colima to be exact and now I'm living in sunny San Diego, CA. (It's as close to living in Mexico as you can get without actually living IN Mexico.) I work an average 9-to-5 job in order to pay my bills but on most days you can find me daydreaming of having my own business.
And if you're really dying to know–itty-bitty-titty committee. You creep.
What's with the blog name?
The first time I attempted to blog I did so over on Blogger under the name Within The Sun. Don't ask why. I think it was the only name I could come up with at the time in which the dot com domain was available so I went with it. My love with that domain was like a Kardashian-Humphries marriage. Who? Exactly. It was sad and short-lived. After a few months the name itself made me feel uninspired, it had nothing to do with me or what I was going through, so back to the drawing board I went to find myself the Kanye of blog names.
9to5Dropout is personal to me in many ways; the name came to me at a time when my life was feeling stagnant. The monotonous routine of my 9-to-5 was weighing down on me to an unbearable level. Couple that with the vicious emotional roller coaster I strapped myself into after dropping out of college, and then on top of that sprinkle my undeniable desire to be an entrepreneur and TA-DA! 9to5Droout was born.
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I consider this a passion project. Like many twenty-something-year-old girls (women?) I have yet to find the thing that makes my heart flutter. I have yet to decide what I want my legacy and my contribution to the world to be. I'm doing this to push myself out of my comfort zone, to do things I wouldn't normally dare to do, in hopes that within one of these actions I discover my true calling.
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– Personal mantras? –Mind over matter – Life is simple, people are good – I think therefore I am.
– Guilty pleasures? Scrounging through thrift shops, flea markets & estate sales. Tacos. Hennessy. Reading blogs. Stalking self-made entrepreneurs.
– Dislikes? People who confuse their lack of drive with patience.
– Coffee or Tea? Tea all the way. I don't drink coffee. Gasp! It gives me heart palpitations plus it makes me poop so no, just no. TMI?
– Bad habit? I have a potty mouth, not very ladylike I know but I accept this about myself and to be frank I also happen to love this about myself. I'm appropriately inappropriate.
– I'm incredibly bossy. Not in a mean way but in the I-get-shit-done way.
– I speak really fast and loud; I'm Latina I can't help it.
– Ironing clothes is my Kryptonite. That being said: I love steamer.
– I'm hypersensitive to repetitive sounds. If I hear someone smacking their food I die a slow painful death. Every. Damn. Time.
– I'm addicted to gifs, memes, funny/ cute pictures of animals… If you can't tell by now I'm very mature for my age.
– I'm a mother to two precious babies…of the four legged kind. Oskar (cat-tabby) and Kobe (dog-chorkie).
– I won a writing contest in the 6th grade for a poem I wrote about soccer, because of it my mom thinks I'm a literary genius. I don't have the heart to tell her that as an adult I no write so good.
– I was adopted at 21 years old alongside a bunch of toddlers and newborns.
And last but not least– I'm not super trendy, I'm not very crafty, and I don't have an overly dramatic life. I'm just your average twenty-something year old trying to keep my head above water in this sea of life known as adulthood. Shout-out to all my regular girls trying to live a not-so-average life!
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Nothing brings a family closer together than a family meal. This recipe for Eggs Au Gratin is going to be the perfect answer to kick off this weekend.
Rich and savory, we love the special ingredients; Sun dried tomatoes and Shallots take a simple egg dish and turn it into something spectacular.
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