Here’s an update on my quest for BCA funding. I met with Professor Robert Cherry yesterday who Dean Wilson recommended I speak with to be the advisor.  He is certainly an interesting fellow, and sugar coats nothing.  He suggested I speak with Dean Morales about the likelihood of actually getting the money.  I sp0ke with […]

Hey guys, Sorry for double-posting, but here’s the link to a NYTimes article that I was discussing with my philosophy friend, which talks about the decline of humanities and the need for the fields to be remarketed. Chris

Hey guys, Greg has inspired me with his pieces to share some of my thoughts that I wrote about in an Op-Ed article for my school newspaper.  Let me know about some of your thought on the issue. (Might be a bit long…) ************************************************* The Race for Race By Christopher Eng Spanning the skybridge, the […]

UPCOMING CONVERSATION Cultural Power: Art Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:00 pm, The Amie and Tony James Gallery The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York, NY 10016 Film maker Peggy Ahwesh and poet & novelist Eileen Myles launch the Great Issues Forum spring programs with an intimate discussion about the power […]

Join us for a screening of the new one-hour documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, a true story by Richard and Carole Rifkind about the struggle to become a scientist and the satisfaction of discovery. Mixing humor with heartbreak, the film tells an intensely dramatic story about a trio of irrepressible student scientists […]

While talking with a fellow named Aaron Gavin today, a crisis in my personal philosophy of science arose. I genuinely find a great deal of truth in Paul Feyerabend’s claims, particularly that scientific thought is not absolute truth.  Specifically, I believe this is based in the fact that we cannot look at science, or anything […]

So, to those of you who go to BC will probably agree with me that dealing with the red tape is a part of daily life when dealing with the administration.  I think I have figured out a clever way around it! I have been hunting down a source of funding for NCUR that I […]

Please see my comment on the Valentine’s Day post.  Sorry to keep going, but here’s another bit of a rant.  It’s not entirely pertinent to my thesis, at least not in the sense of clarifying my argument and conclusions.  Rather, it’s a bit of thought on the validity of neuroscience even now. I think it […]

Here is an article entitled “Anti-Love Drug May be the Ticket to Bliss” from last month’s New York Times that I thought might be of interest on this strange day of celebrating all things romantic: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fColumns%2fFindings Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! Lee

Hi everyone, It has been a little while since I have come across a piece of scholarship that has radically altered my approach to thinking and writing about the two works in my thesis.  I have recently gained a greater familiarity with the concepts of Lacan, which have had this effect on me. One of […]