Archive for September, 2008
michael faris, welcome to penn state
Because of my birthday last Tuesday, Li-Young-Lee’s reading on Thursday, sleeping most of Saturday, and a few other things that distracted me, I didn’t get as much done last week as I had planned. This meant that I pulled an all-nighter Sunday night, which wasn’t that bad, and was very productive. So, havoc wreaked on [...]
tag cloud fridays (a day late)
584: Weekly Position Paper #5: The Future of Typified Bodies and Identities
In Chapter 3 of The Ethics of Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah notes that there are two interrelated questions we should ask regarding identities: “how existing identities should be treated; and what sort of identities there should be†(108). According to Appiah, to ask to be treated with equal dignity despite marginalized identities is not enough, [...]
educated souls and goth makeup in schools
I love coincidence — it’s not “mere” as we would like to think, but instead useful. Just after finishing reading Chapter 5 of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Ethics of Identity, in which he devotes space to “Educated Souls” — the role of education in a liberal society — I saw this post at sociological images, [...]
coca-cola and the banality of evil
Awhile ago, Joseph Orosco asked on his blog, How responsible are people, qua consumers, for the crimes committed by corporations operating in a globalized world? This is an interesting question, one I’ve thought about quite often over the last 10 years (since I started boycotting Dominoe’s because the owner supposedly supported anti-choice groups — I [...]
notes from the interblags: porn, new media, and audaciousness
• via Feminist Philosophers, social networking sites have passed porn as the top attraction on the internet (Reuters). • Alex Reid searches the MLA job list and finds that more posts list “new media” and “digital” than “Shakespeare.” What does this mean for English departments and English majors? • via the Blogora, Zizek’s The Audacity [...]
Madonna: Queer Theorist
In Crip Theory, Robert McRuer calls Madonna a queer theorist. I’m inclined to agree. I’m gonna break the cycle I’m gonna shake up the system I’m gonna destroy my ego
this made me giggle
“The other quotation you will not see an introduction without is Kant’s claim that reading Hume awoke him from his ‘dogmatic slumber’ — though it is doubtful that Hume would have thought he awoke Kant from anything at all” (xiv). Levine, Michael P. “Introduction to the New Edition.” A Treatise of Human Nature. David Hume. [...]
Newcomb: “Totalized Compassion” (2007) and responses
In “Totalized Compassion: The (Im)Possibilities for Acting out of Compassion in the Rhetoric of Hannah Arendt” (2007), Matthew J. Newcomb works with Hannah Arendt’s dismissal of compassion, “call[ing instead] for a more critical form of compassion” (107). He does so by outlining Arendt’s critiques of compassion (it eliminates necessary space between individuals, a space necessary [...]
tag cloud fridays
I’m going to steal Julie‘s Tag Cloud Thursday idea and make it a Tag Cloud Friday for me.
