Thank you all for your very lovely best wishes. I'm really sorry for the interval. There are no classes I believe next week, so we are going to kick back off again big with you reading

'Social Space' from The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre AND from All that's Solid Melts in to Air' , the legend of Faust chapters, by Marshall Berman

If you state on your blog 'this is something I have to do once a week so that can pass history and theory you will......you've guessed it, Fail.

If you are not sure what you are doing right re-assurance, you must immediately get over it and just get on and publish what you have, you can always edit the blogs later. It is the growth process we are looking for.

There are some things which are absolutely forbidden; layering of imagery- keep that for driving your studio crazy and no soppiness.

Make sure you do not do the typical AA student thing an just just about anything you bloody welll like. It will bring you no credits and much pain later in life. Imposing rigour in your thinking now will provide more freedom later- not that there is going to be much of that around in the near future.

I noted this morning that the phrase 'Fix You' represents in itself the pinnnicle of emotionality due to bloody Cold Play, that they now slip the phase in to an advert for Green Flag roadside rescue.

How the fuck do you skipe? (Don't worry i do know what it is- but seeing as I'm sittting here naked except for a 'fun' nazi helmet......no of course I'm not, but you might be. The medium is the messsage!

Try to focus on the pleasure of language, language beyond just stating things, but how you state them.

Make sure you keep your posts relevant to the texts

Lady Gaga running a sociology department is a fabulous examplar of the dilema TE tries to address in After Theory. After a while, after explaining the whole thing, he would prefer to retire a pint of warm beer, but is he 'Nostaligic?'

I'm wondering just how many of you have an understanding of what Cultural Theory might be, for instance, with the perspective of Cultural Theory, you could,'t compare Dubai with The Great Pyramids, beacause Anciwnt Egypt was a DEATH CULT- or could you?

Terrry Eageton loves simile, write it like dream, making everything accesible, discussable, arguable. What did Meades make of Zaha's inability to use simile? What do you make of it?

I said it wouldn't kill me....

But we end up in hospital from time to time. Thankfully I'm now simply confined to the couch, surrounded by pills and potions. I might occasionally raise a smile at Great Military Blunders and throw a book at the tv during Autumn Watch, and all the time I'm waiting for Greece to blow up. It's getting alarmingly Weimar Republic.

So 'Hi' from the couch, open your laptops, and send me, via the comments button, the address of your personal theory750 blog. I've had a terrible time trying to access these, but it gets very easy if, next to 'Sites I Follow' we find a 'Link' to this particular personal blogsite of your own.

Then think about what you'd like to say about Terry Eagleton. Make those comments also by using the comment button.

You can talk about broarder issues to do with the relationship between the texts as we move forward.

2pm start

Session 19th October

This is your read for next weeks session. I enjoyed todays session, and hope you did also, I'm encouraged we now have a decent cohort of followers, and please go ahead and blog at will.

It was good to meet you all today. We started with our present situation, many conundrums of course- what would you expect! For next week please read Mike Davis on 'Fear and Money in Dubai' and Dave Hickey 'At Home in the Neon' from the fabulous 'Air Guitar'. Of course the title 'air guitar' refers to the function of the critic, who has to understand something without actually doing it.