I love my PhD
Jun. 11th, 2003 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipIn the last three days I have written over 12,000 words on cyberpunk literature with author biographies, plot synopses, conventional literary criticism, social typologies using Jameson's methodology, narrative and thematic deconstruction using Derrida and characterization using Butler's (Judith, not Octavia) theory of performativity. And I've written an evaluation of the literature as whole with a combined methodology including the phenomenology of technology, semiotics and psychoanalysis and neofunctional sociology.
Phew! Those four coffees in the morning really did make a difference after a night on the booze.
A sound bite...
"Genuine science fiction, the mythology of modernity, has hardly had sufficient time to develop many literary classics (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds are two prominent exceptions), yet anyone with a long term view of literary history should realize by now that only science fiction will create new classics in modernity."
Related topic. I did a geek test and scored 63.70809% (Extreme Geek). And I didn't even exaggerate the answers.
Mind you, I did once finish Rubik's cube in under a minute.
Phew! Those four coffees in the morning really did make a difference after a night on the booze.
A sound bite...
"Genuine science fiction, the mythology of modernity, has hardly had sufficient time to develop many literary classics (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds are two prominent exceptions), yet anyone with a long term view of literary history should realize by now that only science fiction will create new classics in modernity."
Related topic. I did a geek test and scored 63.70809% (Extreme Geek). And I didn't even exaggerate the answers.
Mind you, I did once finish Rubik's cube in under a minute.
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No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-12 01:12 am (UTC)I think it must be my collection of obsolete computers.
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-12 04:55 pm (UTC)Well, I'm a little bit more aged than you and some of the questions are time relevant. So that's not surprising really. I'm sure at your age I would have scored well below 59%.
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-12 11:55 pm (UTC)Benjamin
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-12 11:16 pm (UTC)I think it must be my collection of obsolete computers.
You've probably already considered this but...
<a href="http://www.beowulf.org/>Beowulf!</a>
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-13 12:02 am (UTC)The SGI Indigo2 and the O2. Run the same operating system.
Though I am working on clustering my two VMS boxes, one alpha and one VAX.
yup I am a geek :)
Benjamin
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-14 01:08 am (UTC)I built one for a project at one point, but I currently find my obsolete computers to be more useful as furniture than most anything else.
Incidentally, I rated Extreme Geek, but not even a full 59%. I've got a few years' disadvantage, though :)
Re: No Fair I only scored 59.96055%
Date: 2003-06-14 04:41 am (UTC)Regardless being a few percentage points behin, I still consider people like yourself and cvisors to be the torchbearers of this technical revolution.
We have a world to connect.