Production and Consumption
Who has said that 'I have been broke, but not poor?' or something like this? It supposes to make you feel better and optimistic when your bank account is minus...Mmm, it doesn't do me any good anyhow though...
Having not been able to secure the necessary funds for Zagreb's CIDOC, I am not going anymore. That's a pity though, because I have seen the schedule and there are some really interesting papers; not to mention friends and colleagues that I would have had the chance to meet..So, Sofia, I won't be there; please say hi to Aleka and the others.
Today, Maria and Giannis are arriving from Greece. Maria has her PhD viva at De Montfort Uni (in conservation) tomorrow. Fingers crossed everybody! Which means that it was a very good opportunity to tide up my room. Anna was impressed and suprisignly stated that it is the tidest it has ever been. Coming from Anna, I consider this as a compliment to my tiding skills. This does not mean that I am a messy person; I just sometimes bare messy environments...
This morning I spent all my energy and time trying to recover a document; the first draft of a paper I am planning to submit on Friday at MobileHCI05. Having discussed it on the phone the previous night with Areti, I have added some more things yesterday, but today the document wouldn't open. In the end I managed to open it with Notepad and recover most of the text. But it was enough to spoil my day. I may do some reading later in the evening. There are some papers I need to go through in order to get a better idea of what and why I am writing that paper.
Some days I think that my whole life the past two months has been sending conference papers. Ross will be mad at me, if he knew that I am going for another one. Well, he will be when I tell him this Wednesday. Perhaps it is a way to avoid finishing my phd, because I am scared of what will come next, as Anna has psychoanalysed me. At least, now I am confident that I can finish it, while before I was feeling completely useless in writing the dissertation.
Michel de Certeau, my faithful companion in this thesis, says that consumption is production; it's the user's appropriation of the product, and so another type of production, based on use and practice. In my case, I have gone beyond producing and then consuming the thesis. The product has consumed me, I do not control it anymore; it controls me, it owns me.
If this is not worrying, I wonder what is...
Having not been able to secure the necessary funds for Zagreb's CIDOC, I am not going anymore. That's a pity though, because I have seen the schedule and there are some really interesting papers; not to mention friends and colleagues that I would have had the chance to meet..So, Sofia, I won't be there; please say hi to Aleka and the others.
Today, Maria and Giannis are arriving from Greece. Maria has her PhD viva at De Montfort Uni (in conservation) tomorrow. Fingers crossed everybody! Which means that it was a very good opportunity to tide up my room. Anna was impressed and suprisignly stated that it is the tidest it has ever been. Coming from Anna, I consider this as a compliment to my tiding skills. This does not mean that I am a messy person; I just sometimes bare messy environments...
This morning I spent all my energy and time trying to recover a document; the first draft of a paper I am planning to submit on Friday at MobileHCI05. Having discussed it on the phone the previous night with Areti, I have added some more things yesterday, but today the document wouldn't open. In the end I managed to open it with Notepad and recover most of the text. But it was enough to spoil my day. I may do some reading later in the evening. There are some papers I need to go through in order to get a better idea of what and why I am writing that paper.
Some days I think that my whole life the past two months has been sending conference papers. Ross will be mad at me, if he knew that I am going for another one. Well, he will be when I tell him this Wednesday. Perhaps it is a way to avoid finishing my phd, because I am scared of what will come next, as Anna has psychoanalysed me. At least, now I am confident that I can finish it, while before I was feeling completely useless in writing the dissertation.
Michel de Certeau, my faithful companion in this thesis, says that consumption is production; it's the user's appropriation of the product, and so another type of production, based on use and practice. In my case, I have gone beyond producing and then consuming the thesis. The product has consumed me, I do not control it anymore; it controls me, it owns me.
If this is not worrying, I wonder what is...
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