tendencies

So then there's always that problem that I articulated to Nicole probably freshman year or shortly thereafter, that urge to develop some theory that includes everything (without, of course, being totalizing, but just being so holographic and tight that it somehow speaks to everything I'm interested in). It's a tongue-in-cheek urge, but it still comes out now and again. I said something about wanting to have it all written down. Nico's response? "Yeah, you could write it all down in a little red book and carry it everywhere you go!"

Words to the wise, those. My thesis 'outline' keeps spiraling out, which is both exciting and worrisome. I mean, why not include a brief and relevant discussion of the import of becoming-intelligible alongside the exploration of the role of melancholia in Judith Butler's work on gender? Well, one good reason why not is that it could just be sloppy. But it *could* work, if I link it to some questions about the affective aspects of thinking sexual difference as a virtual multiplicity. And that will only work if I make that problem a main thrust of my argument, which has yet to emerge in any specific form.

Anyway, doing my work is cheering me up a bit, or at least distracting me from the gravity of afore-mentioned mommy-daddy-me stuff. I can't lose my focus now!