I think that those of you who have expressed interest in reading that paper I’ve been working on may get your wish sooner than the spring - it’s likely that I’ll shift the primary focus of my thesis a bit, enough that I don’t mind sharing the preliminary work I’ve done that has turned out to be less relevant to the bigger argument. Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to read up on photorealism and the philosophy of photography before I post my paper in the near future.