Nova PhDs

This afternoon Joshua Ramey sucessfully defended his dissertation titled "Gilles Deleuze and the Powers of Art." Classes start up again next week, but there were still over 30+ people in attendance. I know very little about Deleuze's work so I cannot comment about the content of his project, but I can attest that Josh made an interesting presentation of his work and that the question and answer session was lively. An aspect of his original project, taken up only in the conclusion of his diss, concerned the concept of magic in the thought of particular Renaissance thinkers = a question from Julie Klein lead Josh to claim that he would have written a "magical dissertation" if he thought he could have had it approved . . . Walter Brogan then added that he, Josh, made a wise decision is taking his diss in another direction . . .

There is a party tonight at Josh and Emmanuel's place, and I expect there to be plenty of magical dancing and general merry-making.