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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 2 Jun 2019
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      I lasted about 15 pages but that's mostly because I was tired and spacey rather than struggling to read it.

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    2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 3 Jun 2019
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      Back on the Foucault. I don't really understand why this is supposed to be hard to read? I guess I've tried to read "Archaeology of Knowledge" before and remember struggling a bit, but "Discipline and Punish" seems... fine? Maybe it gets harder later?

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    3. Miles Sabin‏ @milessabin 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @DRMacIver

      Foucault is really quite readable, certainly compared with Derrida.

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    4. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 3 Jun 2019
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      I've never even attempted Derrida and TBH I'm not sure I'm ever going to. So far I've just let @drossbucket do the work for me and copied her notes. 😉

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    5. Lucy Keer‏ @drossbucket 3 Jun 2019
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      I've barely done the work myself! I read about 5 pages of Of Grammatology at a time, and then my eyes slide off and I go back to secondary sources. Hoping you're going to do the work of reading Foucault for me though!

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    6. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @drossbucket @milessabin

      I need to be better at translating my reading into writing again. I was doing very well for a while but that's lapsed

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @DRMacIver @drossbucket @milessabin

      I take rough notes on much of my research reading, usually boiling down to “this was not very good because X”. Have recently started wondering whether to put these online, somewhat in the spirit of publishing null results.

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    8. Lucy Keer‏ @drossbucket 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver @milessabin

      I'd definitely like to read them - the ones you've emailed have been good! I'm really inconsistent. Sometimes I write lots, sometimes nothing - there's no system. The newsletter is good for ensuring that some stuff gets written up at least.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @drossbucket @DRMacIver @milessabin

      I’ve been forcing myself to be more consistent than every before, certainly than since my phd, because so much is relevant from so many disparate fields. and I can’t keep even the gist in my head anymore.

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    10. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket @milessabin

      Part of why I don't is that my first pass read is really a scan and raid for concepts. This is why I have the rereading shelves so I can properly figure them out after.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @DRMacIver @drossbucket @milessabin

      Right. And for nearly everything, that’s all that is worth doing. I’m having to force myself to read a lot of stuff in a lot more detail than I want to in order to be sure I understand a slew of foreign fields adequately. It’s not much fun! And falls out of my head quickly.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver and

          Something that ought to be taught explicitly to new grad students is that the main thing you do in reading a paper in your own field is zero in on why it is either wrong or irrelevant to your project, so you can avoid reading the rest of it. (Maybe you wrote this somewhere?)

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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          There’s another whole skill that most people don’t have to learn because their work is within a clearly-defined discipline, which is “figure out the fundamental principles of field X, what it is good for, and [most important] what its limitations are.”

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