More later when I’m more awake, but I just wanted to announce that I just finished the 1st draft of my first novel, tentatively titled Singularity Deferred. It’s 105,600 words long (about 25,000 longer than I anticipated), and 388 MLA-formatted pages.
I’m happy, pleased, proud… and exhausted! I’ll figure out what kind of ritual celebratory act I want to perform tomorrow; right now, I want to celebrate by sleeping. 🙂
So I was reading back in my oh so many blog posts this year</sarcasm>, and recalled this one: io9 suggested reading list. My best laid plans of reading this year. And I realized, this year was a really, really bad year. Aside from finally jumping through the right hoops to get my English Masters Degree, this year was full of fail.
I have new best laid plans, now, though. For a full accounting, check out my general blog’s entry, CelticBear: Be it resolved…. In it I discuss the drek that was 2010, and what I plan to do about it in regards to writing and readjusting my life in the right direction.
Then, if all goes well, I should have some more blog posts over here more often.
Happy New Year.
Normally I hate these “nothing to see here” posts. But, it’s been a year since my last post (been busy posting over at my main personal/political/religious/stuff-you-can’t-talk-around-family-or-mixed-company-without-making-people-uncomfortable blog over at www.celticbear.com/weblog and even moreso on my Facebook account) and I thought I should check in.
I have a lot of news to announce here soon, and I’d like to do it all at one time. So, keep your eyes open….
Oh, by the way, since moving some stuff around, the font on some of the earlier articles on this blog got rather messed up. I noticed. I’ll be cleaning those up soon. Thanks. 🙂
Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective
In the spirit of full disclosure, it must be said that I have not read John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon; so, it will be assumed throughout this essay that what the NPR book reviewer, Maureen Corrigan, has to say about it is accurate for the basis of an analysis of cultural production. From a standpoint that “text is a social space,” this is not altogether inappropriate as one of Roland Barthes’ main contentions is that there is no absolute and empirical meaning behind a text — in contrast to the liberal humanist point of view held up through the 1950s (and continuing today in some corners). In the traditional view, it was believed that a work of literature had only one inherent meaning, one appropriate way to examine and interpret the work. Barthes, on the other hand, promoted the idea that the work itself, its form and its function, is at least as important and valuable of a subject of examination as the text — if not more so.
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