This is the Modern World!

Tonight was my first day of my second class, Global Mobilities.  If you are interested, you can actually read a little bit about here: http://globalmobilities.wordpress.com/course-overview/.  I love this course's starting idea of constant motion in the modern world.  We already had three articles to read in time for tonight's class....and I was happy to dive right in, head first.

I love thinking about feeling and how the more connected we are through technology, the more often (I believe) we actually feel isolated because our interactions are ever more mediated.   And now, I have a whole semester to meditate on it.  The best part?  Lauren Berlant, currently my favorite affect theorist, is on the syllabus too!  I'm just finishing her book, Compassion, which has been wonderful summer reading. 

Ah yes, I do love modernity.  And I look forward to spending my future in academia exploring modernist notions of interiority and making fun of it...while also taking it seriously.  Perhaps this is why I always like the band, The Jam?

Enjoy!