Archive for November, 2008
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via Dennis:
As someone who attributes to his cat a faculty for moral philosophy, I love this anti-LOLcats.
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584: Weekly Position Paper #12: Patriarchy: “A Totality in Processâ€
In Chapter 4 of Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power & Politics, Moya Lloyd explores the tensions between poststructuralism and theories of domination the rely on systemic theories, arguing for a “global strategy†understanding of domination that focuses on “women’s multiple and disparate subordinations†(87). She does so by offering an exegesis of Teresa Ebert’s theory [...]
584: Weekly Position Paper #11: Questioning the Private Body
Three essays in Freedman and Holmes’s collection The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy center around pregnancy. All three essays call into question dominant narratives and conceptions surrounding pregnant bodies. Noting the dis-ease of others around her pregnancy, Amy Spangle Gerald explores how being pregnant affects her authority as a teacher and [...]
584: Weekly Position Paper #10: Surplus as Epistemic Sites: Resisting the Tidy Essay
In Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse, Candace Spigelman argues persuasively for the use of personal experience in academic writing, both by scholars and by students. She offers many reasons and benefits for incorporating personal experiences. Key among these is personal experience can be used rhetorically, rather than viewed epistemologically, in order to [...]
Lloyd: Beyond Identity Politics (2005)
Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics by Moya Lloyd
My review
rating: 5 of 5 starsLloyd’s book is an excellent book for those interested in feminism and post-structuralist theories of identity and politics. Lloyd is able to articulately and clearly convey post-structuralist feminist theories in ways that are accessible, even when [...]
Keizer: Requiem for the private word (2008)
Ever one for debates about the private/public distinction, I read Garret Keizer’s “Requiem for the Private World” (Harper’s August 2008) with intrigue. Keizer notes infringes upon our privacy by the government (wiretapping and airport security, for example), and then asks, “How much further will it go? How much will the American people tolerate?”:
The answer, [...]
to profess (v.)
Today’s PhD comic:
coffee coffee coffee
“They” warn us about these things. Don’t drink too much coffee. I’ve been trying to keep my average at about two, max at about three. But some Mondays I meet with my mentor group at the Corner Room, and I have my second cup of coffee at 10:00, which means that by noon, I’m crashing, [...]
definitions: marriage
Tomorrow in class we’re talking about definitions. In particular, there are four ways you might define a term in an essay: formal (like a dictionary) extended, historical, negative (what it’s not), and stipulative (”for the sake of this essay, I will define…”). I thought the following examples would help.
Jon Stewart uses a historical definition:
Keith Olbermann [...]
