Now that I’ve finally completed all my grading, I can relax and enjoy my Summer:
Publication Projects
Write my second book, Being and Difference: An Essay in Object-Oriented Ontology, which develops a number of the claims I’ve been developing here under the title of “Onticology”.
Complete my contribution for The Speculative Turn anthology on the Ontic Principle.
Chase down the contributors to The Speculative Turn, edit their work, and get’er done.
Write an article for the Deleuze and Ethics anthology coming out with Edinburgh University Press on Deleuze’s ethics of the event, showing how this account of the ethical provides a strong alternative to deontological and utilitarian ethical theories, based on problems rather than generalized rules. Unfortunately James Williams has taken some of the wind out of my sails on this with his extremely interesting and generally excellent study of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense.
Write the author’s response to the reviews of my book.
Write a review of Hoy’s book on temporality.
Reading
Learn Category Theory through Lawvere and Schanuel’s excellent and highly accessible Conceptual Mathematics.
Read Badiou’s Logics of Worlds and find something in it to complain about.
Give Graham’s Guerilla Metaphysics the second close reading it deserves.
Finish reading the Brassier books I’ve started.
Finally get around to reading Iain Hamilton Grant’s book on Schelling.
Teaching
Teach two sections of Intro to Philosophy. I am seriously praying this doesn’t happen.
What’s on your plate this Summer?
May 20, 2009 at 4:54 pm
[...] May 20, 2009 LS has done what I have been intending to do for a while, namely, write up a list of things that I need to do [...]
May 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Great looking plans! I think my only plan is to re-read the third Critique in light of some of our conversations here… And take a lot of naps, take more walks, eat less junk food etc etc.
May 20, 2009 at 6:59 pm
“Finish reading the Brassier books I’ve started.”
There’s more than one?
May 20, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Jeff,
I you count Brassier’s thesis.
May 20, 2009 at 11:09 pm
[...] everyone else is doing it! What I’d like to accomplish this [...]
May 21, 2009 at 6:36 am
You’re praying you don’t teach during the summer?
May 21, 2009 at 1:39 pm
[...] 21, 2009 Following the lead of others I’ve decided to add a post regarding my summer ‘to do’ list. [...]
May 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm
By the way, coincidentally I just got that Hoy book you are reviewing, looked through an introduction, it looks interesting, if you decide to post on it, I’d be interested in what you think of it. I mean in the end, of course, there’ll be a review, but I know that some things will be left out.