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Finished:
32 page Epistolary paper - finalized, edited, sent to prof wed
27 page Kotani transcription - done done done
12 pages of Translation paper
24 pages Kotani translation
20 sentence diagrams

Left to do:
5 pages Translation paper (thought it will probably be around 10 more)

I know my updates have been so very very boring - my whole life has revolved around being able to get work done and walking the dog. I'd never evern translated anything other than a couple of pages, so attempting roughly 30 pages of theoretical Japanese seemed practically impossible.

Yet, it got done. So for those who might be curious about what I was translating, here are some choice quotes:

( Hermaphrodites under patriarchy ―To read Ursula K LeGuin's )

Air Doll:

What does this film mean in terms of translation?
Benjamin or no?

( ok, the rest of the notes )

sidebar - office feminism? i dunno if it works or not:
http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/2/22/in-which-we-teach-you-how-to-be-a-woman-in-any-boys-club.html

The class, we will recall, does have an investment in east asian cinema - again the two questions that come in with that term are:

1) is there the possibility of actually defining a national cinema
2) there seems to be an acknowledgement that there is a national cinema just at the time when it becomes deeply problematized (when you should not or cannot actually identify a national cinema)

( and the rest of it ... lots of notes of semi random stuff )

Anyone know anywhere I can get a primer on academic words? I don't know if it was simply that I've spent the last couple of nights up till 2 reading for my classes or what, but this afternoon it seemed like every word out of my professors mouth was a set of vocabulary that I still don't understand. And my most horrifying secret: even after using the following word in my own work (or variations of), i am still not precisely clear on what it means.

ontology. ontological. defined as:
The science or study of being; that department of metaphysics which relates to the being or essence of things, or to being in the abstract.
The branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being.

So what does it mean to talk about an author who is trying to be ontological? Or proposing a new ontology? (ok, the second one I can do, but the first one?)

and since I'm looking up words, neologism:
a newly invented word or phrase / newly discovered term or meaning

We were talking about Philip Dick's The Man In The High Castle and William Gibson's Neuromancer, and while I'm certainly willing to get on the high horse right along with everyone who suggests we can't dismiss either one of these words as simply pulp novels not worth the paper they're printed on, the ability to deploy this kind of vocabulary? I've lost it. Sometimes I'm fairly certain that I'd never had it.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think one of the most fascinating things about cyberpunk is that it does cram a whole lot of new meanings into half recognizable words. And frankly, now that I've looked up what neologism means, I'm willing to say they're creating them all the time. But its as if I missed a class somewhere, where they handed out the sheet that contained all of this terminology. I can talk sign / signifier / referent, I can talk proletariat / bourgeois (at least to a certain degree), I can talk subject / Other..... why, then, do I feel like a babe in the woods everytime someone opens their mouths in this class?

Oh well, no time for worrying. I have a Japanese test tomorrow instead.

I was at Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the story conference today. From 9 am - 9 pm. And yep, this is sort of a vacation for me, so I felt a bit like a kid in a candy store. The conference is an extension of the conferences that Henry Jenkins has been having over the years at MIT that is intentionally meant to be a fusion between media-industry professionals and academics so that, possibly, there can be some bridging of the gap between theory and practice. Interestingly, because the conference was in the cinema school a lot of the industry people assumed that a lot of the audience was part of the cinema school as well (which I can assure you, wasn't the case - they were from all different kinds of disciplines, my own being one of them).

( my take on most of the day - there is still a ton of room to grow across that 'gap' between industry and academia )

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