Calling my big brained buddies

Look at me! I’m work­ing on my thesis! Amazing!

Dia­sporic iden­tity is always already in the pro­cess of becom­ing-other, always engaged in a shift­ing cul­tural dis­cus­sion of the lim­inal. It is too easy to argue that the inev­it­able out­come of the post-struc­tur­al­ist argu­ment is an isol­ated indi­vidual doomed to fail­ure. But the par­tic­u­lar­ate iden­tity recon­struc­ted by dia­sporic pop­u­la­tions provides a model for con­nec­tions, tendrils, fibres, pro­du­cing a rhizo­matic tangle that cannot be unpacked.

I’m not sure that I really mean ‘unpacked’ but I can’t think of another word right now. And I’m not sure that sen­tence in the middle is clearly linked enough or if it’s just sit­ting there…

Anyhow, those of you who have more exper­i­ence and under­stand­ing of this stuff (I’m look­ing at you in par­tic­u­lar, p_cat and paracelsus), flame me, cri­tique it, is this a wank? Am I saying any­thing useful for you?

Thanks for the Sin­field ref­er­ence, by the way, paracelsus. And thank you for the dia­sporas reader, p_cat. It just happened to have the Sin­field in it… coincidence?