The Cambridge Chat Thread

It got cold far too quickly.

Well, the section is definitely spartan now. I meant that, at least I'm assuming that, the books will be resold en masse to another dealer. The book industry plays by different rules during administration, which I'm not particularly clear on.

It's not like the world will run out of Pratchetts', though ...

Perhaps next term I will bring my entire collection just to create some form of kula system for Discworld books. Collectively we seem to read little else ...

i'm getting my DoS a board-wiper as a christmas present; the state of his hands after supervisions disgusts me.

I feel better now, but full. Cooked a really yummy lamb mince tagine thing with cinammon, peppadew, carrots, kidney beans, onions, tomato, herbs and wine

I'd be more amused if he actually did it.

That sounds really, really good.

I automatically expect him to do it, now that he has mentioned it on here

Well yeh, but was it discounted?

I think it was, since I distinctly remember seeing fractions (and Terry Pratchett in a wizard hat)

Intrigueing

Thanks; I'll check it out. Hopefully for me it isn't 3 for 2. Its always so damn hard to resist even when you know its not that much of a reduction.

You're welcome, although there's a good chance you won't find anything you want to buy I'm not an expert on Pratchett or discounts

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Resident Bourdieu expert, I have a question. In the Richard Nice translation of Outline there are segments of text that appear to be inserted, distinguished from the main text by a smaller font. There's nothing explaining why these segments are so formatted. Are these later additions, or simply 'information' boxes? These are the sections where Bourdieu seems to go into some depth regarding Sartre's position as regards agency and knowledge structures, yet also where he goes into more explicit depth concerning Kabiyle cosmology. It's not a major issue, I know, but I can't quite work out how these elements relate to the rest of the text ...

My DoS hasn't released any of my reports since...Lent 2006.

I'm quite upset over Borders closing. I quite liked Borders, especially since it was open until late...

I didn't see any of my reports in first year (they weren't released), so assumed that I wouldn't again in second year and so didn't even bother checking CamCORS. Finally checked CamCORS a week after second year tripos results were out and found to my surprise that actually, my DoS HAD released my second year supervision reports, and all I can say is I am really glad I didn't see my supervision reports throughout that year - think I would have been too demoralised by them!

That would seem to make sense. The sections seem to almost function as tangents from the main flow, though my interest here is, anyway, not with his ethnography, but with his outline of doxa and of habitus.

It's been one of those Latour/Bourdieu days .