Ah, hello, my few dear readers. Lay your worries to bed, I'm back from one and a half months of academic grind, and not (as many may have suspected) putrefying in a boggy pit somewhere. So yes, relax. Take a breath. Hold it. Release. Better? Very good.
Have finished the last of my M.A. coursework, a large paper about the French alcoholism-recovery group Vie Libre - their causal model of alcoholism (quite unlike A. A., they place the blame for alcoholism on society and broader patterns of class exploitation), the ways they place and limit responsibility for the illness, the ways in which individual members may hold different models from the doctrinal, and what this might imply about the authenticity of our knowledge and the foundations of ethical action. I await my final mark in this, my dark corner, cloistered and grim, though some initial feedback bodes well. With that behind me, I've started on with my PhD, which'll keep on with those same themes just mentioned.
And that's enough about me. For any who may be interested, I'll be posting the paper in sections over the next little while; each section has at least minimal thematic coherence on its own, but I'd encourage those intrigued to read them in order.
I think I'll take a break and watch Tommy Carcetti lose his way for a few hours. All the best, hypocrite lecteurs.
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