11 December, 2011

retirement

This year has been extraordinary, with such a vicious roll between high points and low (and way too many of the latter) that it threatened to come unstuck altogether. But things are really happening, and things I cared about even a year-and-a-half ago now seem completely distant and irrelevant.

Besides, between the two part-time jobs and the part-time degree, I find myself with little time to keep the blog in any meaningful state, and the rest of the time is given over to DTRTP, so I’m going to retire the blog (for now), bar the odd cfp and photo, which is all it’s been for a while now anyway. If you would like to get in touch with me about helping the campaign, please email infinitethought[at]hotmail.co.uk

I’m not speaking much next year, and have agreed to give all the talks I can reasonably do well in the time available, especially with ongoing legal situations coming to a head in the next few months, but I might be able to talk about the campaign if that’s useful to anyone at any point (I don’t want to speak about anything else really). We had a discussion at the Bank of Ideas with Doreen Massey and Teresa Hoskyns this afternoon, which was really interesting, particularly on the question of public/private/common space, and it clarified a few things: I’m feeling less and less interested in alienated, isolated forms of critique or anger or what have you, and more and more practically interested in the kinds of collective work I only really theorised about before. 

So, see you on the other side!

p.s. I also deleted everything on the blog from before the riots this year. Enough of all that callow crap from my 20s hanging around forever. If there was anything useful that I did delete (I dunno, the odd Badiou translation?), let me know and I’ll send it to you cos I cut and pasted everything into a word doc: 532,556 words from April 2004 onwards…now that’s a lot more than I would have guessed…feels good to ditch it though.