I’m in Austin for a brief weekend to attend a wedding and recharge my sorely depleted reserves. I die a little bit each time I leave Texas, but that’s for a different kind of blog entry in a different kind of blog. Anyway, the wedding was at a country club near Georgetown, and it was [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘austin’
November 5, 2007
Texas, Home
Pamuk, when asked about the allegations of “insulting Turkishness” brought against him, quoted Adorno: “It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home”. It is necessary to critique the culture in which you are the most comfortable–it’s a fairly basic lesson in reflexivity, but one that can make you an [...]


