Emily Diary

Flyleaf, Sick Puppies @ HOB-Sunset

Umphrey’s McGee, Banyan (w/Mike Watt) @ Ford Ampitheatre

Hot Chip, Planningtorock, The Boggs @ Henry Fonda Music Box

The Finches, Michael Leviton, Scary Mansion @ Silverlake Lounge

White Rabbits @ Spaceland

Peanut Butter Wolf @ The Echo (Echoplex below the Echo)

Scissors for Lefty, Lemon Sun @ The Knitting Factory (Front Stage)

Jana Hunter, Imaad Wasif And The Two Part Beast, Eric Player, Whitman @ The Smell

Datarock, 8-bit @ Troubadour

Roger Waters @ Hollywood Bowl

I’ve completed the fourth and final part of Sennett’s Respect in a World of Inequality, and overall find the central point of the work very important but the presentation a bit uneven - especially in his efforts to use examples from anthropology that reflect the expression and performative nature of respect. Here the “disk” (in lieu of bureacuractic pyramid) metaphor turns up again, but with no greater impact or clarity than I found in its initial use. The strength of the book stylistically remains its autobiographical sections as well as his discussion of bureaucratic respect.

But style uneveness aside, Sennett’s major contribution is to bring back into perspective the important role that respect — especially in the form of autonomy — plays in our lives. I find this very compatible with wome of the other work I’ve been reading about governance, especialy the work of Philip Pettit on autonomous agency

Now on to another book….

Tags: Richard Sennett, Mel Dubnick, accountabilitybloke

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