Playtest

I’ve added a photo of myself to my ‘about’ page. No particular reason for it, I needed a photo for a staff profile on the course I’m teaching blackboard page, so I thought I might as well put it up here as well. It is in sepia tones, but this is more to hide the fact that it was taken using my housemates MacBook Pro under fluorescent lighting, and I looked a bit like a zombie with normal colours.

I’ve just about finished reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, being into the final chapter. Its taken me a while, as I’ve generally been reading it on the train too and from Uni everyday, and the trip itself is usually only about 15-20 minutes or so, so I don’t get through much in a day unless there are delays or cancellations, which are, admittedly, quite frequent. And it is quite a dense book, even the copy editors have missed a few spelling mistakes in the edition I have.

I’ve been wondering if I should move next to Heidegger’s Being and Time, I mean, its only another 550 or so pages of complex, foundational philosophy to read. Despite my reluctance, It did feel quite awkward trying to write about Heidegger in relation to Merleau-Ponty, when I’m only drawing upon Dourish’s briefest of accounts, and a few other mentions of his work in a couple of other texts. There is a book I’ve come across called Phenomenology and Existentialism by Robert Solomon, that seems to be a fairly collection of essays and excerpts on, well, existentialism and phenomenology that I was thinking of ordering from Readings, that includes sections by Heidegger, and also another on Heidegger’s approach to the concept of the tool. Maybe I should put some of those hard earned tutorial dollars to work.