(May 5, 2023 at 8:17 pm)Tomato Wrote: No. Not Steve.
1. What is your job? If unemployed or retired, what was your last job?
2. Have you ever complained about your job?
Worked in galleries and museums until I moved to Japan at age 28.
Got my PhD and taught at university for a while, but didn't like it. No doubt I complained about it a time or two.
Since then for many years I've led small reading groups for adults. We've read Dante, the Bible, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and others. One group very kindly chose to do a close reading of the book I wrote. Currently one group is reading Lolita. In one group we're talking about art history without a text -- I just bring in pictures. In another group we're talking about the philosophy of art and how it relates to epistemology, so I bring in various short texts, in either English or Japanese.
The goddamn G7 is meeting in my city so the community centers I use for free classrooms are closed for three months. We're making do with coffee shops.
