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I was awoken last night by a couple having a loud fight somewhere outside my window. Probably the next building over. For the ten minutes or so until it ended, I wasn't sure whether I should call the police. If no violence was going happen, I'd rather not make potentially huge trouble for them, especially since they're Black and I worry they'd be treated unfairly by officers.

Then, it happened twice more, with breaks between that lasted almost long enough for me to get to sleep. It sounded pretty ugly sometimes, but so did a lot of fights my ex and I had in the last year or so we were living together. It did finally stop, somewhere around 1:45, so I got to sleep again. I'm still up almost two hours later than I wanted to be, though I have just needed some sleep too.

How do you decide when something like that happening in your vicinity merits a call to the police?

Lefebvre

I just got dressed and packed stuff up to visit the libraries on campus for some research and book scanning. So of course, it started raining again. I'm going tomorrow instead. My plan is to read all of "The Urban Revolution" today, and hopefully some of the Poli-Sci stuff. Then I can use the weekend for writings for the week and maybe even start looking for stuff for my term papers!

"The Urban Revolution" is slow going. The entire thing is full of metaphors like the following:

"These verbal layers, wandering about their native soil, are unable to attach themselves to a "philosophical subject" or a "privileged object" or a "historical totalization." We can look at them the way we look at various cloud layers from an airplane. Here, high above the earth, floating lightly, is the cirrus of ancient philosophy, the nimbus of rationality, and the heavy cumulus of scientism. They are language, or metalanguages, halfway between the real and the fictive, between the realized and the possible. The float freely, escaping the incantations of sorcerer philosophers."

I don't know whether to blame Lefebvre or the translator.