New semester, new courses!

I think I'm going to like this semester... although it's going to be crazy busy. I'm taking three sociology courses, a 400 level seminar on "Queer-ing the social", a 300 level theory course on knowledge, and a 400/500 level sorta-seminar on mortality and population health. And, I'm taking a 300 level English course on post colonial african feminist lit. I'm liking all the courses so far, but there's soooo much reading! Each seminar has about 50 to 100 pages to be read before each class and English, well, that's English, so lots of reading.

This is going to sound so nerdy, but I love it. I am so excited to be reading all these different social theorists this semester, some of them are, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault (in the photo above, who wouldn't love a leather-daddy social theorist??), Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Martin Heidegger, and some other ones I don't recall right now :). Lets just hope that not too much of it is completely off the wall and boring. At least Foucault was a huge 'mo!

“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).” – Michel Foucault