tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913229899720792807.post1554800626711317275..comments2023-10-06T15:32:58.414+01:00Comments on Academic, Hopeful: Pony and WolfAcademic, Hopefulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17474557296107830403noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913229899720792807.post-85832550392710868332008-10-31T18:03:00.000+00:002008-10-31T18:03:00.000+00:00I love the way you can take a series of thoughts f...I love the way you can take a series of thoughts from inside your head and channel them into an interesting and beautiful slice of internet. If that's what writing a PhD looks like from the inside, I want one. ;o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913229899720792807.post-53299000667177766852008-11-01T13:21:00.000+00:002008-11-01T13:21:00.000+00:00Try reading Garfinkel's piece on degradation cerem...Try reading Garfinkel's piece on degradation ceremonies (Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies)--one of the most instructive on humiliation and assignment of stigma. Goffman still is the best here in my view.<br><br>One thing about writing up PhDs is that students often think this is the end point. It isn't. It is a mere staging post. It's better to think of the book you are writing which will garner you a degree along the way.<br><br>The other aspect is that the half life of these projects is substantially longer than most think. Your participation in conferences and seminars is predicated on what you've been doing. You may change course but you will always be tied to this particular piece of work and its penumbra. After all it is the salient piece that created your personality as a scholar. In other words, you never quite escape it. (I wonder if this is why the Germans have the Habilitation--a second chance at recreating yourself intellectually...)<br><br>Good luck with the writing though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913229899720792807.post-21718964536592207212008-11-01T16:06:00.000+00:002008-11-01T16:06:00.000+00:00Disapproval is genuine. I rather like it.Praise is...Disapproval is genuine. I rather like it.<br>Praise is not only suspicious but difficult to go anywhere with. Plus it can make you proud and arrogant. All round it sucks.<br><br>Ah shure hope yer ma is feeling a lidl bedder bah now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5913229899720792807.post-80442095606307436832008-11-03T22:11:00.000+00:002008-11-03T22:11:00.000+00:00Thanks Miss Monkey Mind--I hope to see you there.S...Thanks Miss Monkey Mind--I hope to see you there.<br><br>Something a little strange about the times the comments here were made. I'm sure I didn't make mine at 6:20 in the morning! Have you got your time zone set to Sydney? Just curious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com