Nietzsche argued that all choices are aesthetic in nature: having no access to empirical truth and trapped in a language of metaphor and allusion, everything we do is predicated on our aesthetic sensibilities. Following my boy Friedrich, I'd like to mention a few of the aesthetics that inform my ongoing decision to remain in graduate school:
- Coffee (no surprise)
- Sweaters
- Scruffy facial hair
- Foucault
- Poverty
- Libraries
- Academic buzzwords
- Contemporary Marxian critical theory
- The bus
- Not working
- Being surrounded by brilliant women
Nietzsche argued that all choices are aesthetic in nature: having no access to empirical truth and trapped in a language of metaphor and allusion, everything we do is predicated on our aesthetic sensibilities. Following my boy Friedrich, I'd like to mention a few of the aesthetics that inform my ongoing decision to remain in graduate school:
4 comments:
I concur on Foucault... and coffee.
Sounds good to me. I am always in favor of coffee, Foucault, libraries, etc...and especially beautiful, intelligent women...
wow...Santa Cruz must be quite the place. ;) Love the coffee - the woman at my usual coffee place refused to sell me breakfast when I had to use small change (5's and 2's) to pay for it, so now I need to find a new one. Love the melange!
I thought you might be amused by this.
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