too early to say, but…

It sounds like there’s a fairly good chance that my whole Fall Semester class will be YouTubed. I’ll be the first to teach our new Recent Trends in Philosophy class.

I’ve provisionally decided to go with Meillassoux, DeLanda, and Zizek for the first three texts, because I think that covers a lot of varied philosophical ground. And Prince of Networks too. I’ve never taught anything by myself before, but they’ll get a lot of Latour out of it.

And as for the latter part of that book, it ought to be fun for the students to have author and teacher overlap. I still remember how fascinating it was the first time I had a teacher who had actually written a book (which had previously seemed like a superhuman achievement to me)… That would be Elliott Zuckerman, my Sophomore Music tutor at St. John’s, who wrote The First Hundred Years of Wagner’s Tristan. I still remember his anecdote of D’Annunzio being carried weeping from the theater in Bayreuth during Tristan und Isolde, cited as a rather extreme example of Wagner pathology. (I still like Wagner, though.)