80 days ago by biqbal

prospective MA thesis abstract. obviously subject to revision, &etc. working to complete a draft by mid-december. – At the end of “What Might an Anthropology of the Secular Look Like?”, the first chapter of his Formations of the Secular, Talal Asad provides a dense discussion of two conceptions of t ...

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100 days ago by biqbal

I wrote the following paragraphs for an essay I was working on in spring, but the section never made it into the final version (in part because it relies too much on secondary sources and i didn’t have time to go deeper into it, and in part because the paper itself was far too long already). So the ...

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123 days ago by biqbal

started reading The Kingdom and the Glory this week. At the end of the preface he says In opposition to the ingenuous emphasis on productivity and labor that has long prevented modernity from accessing politics as man’s most proper dimension, politics is here returned to its central inoperativity, t ...

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234 days ago by Larisa

I’m back at it–writing, that is. I recently realised that this blog was, in many ways, therapy for me while I tried to finish my thesis to earn an MA in French Language and Literature. Now I have returned here, this time with a “Major Research Project” for an MA in English Literature. The therapeuti ...

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