Punk Pedagogy
punk resources
Suggestions from Robert Clark here in Eugene. These are on the syllabus for a class taught by Daniel Wojcik: Laing, Dave. 1978. Interpreting Punk Rock. Hebdige, Dick. 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. in The Subcultures Reader 2nd ed. 2005. Wojcik, Daiel. 1995. Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art. Jackson: UP of Mississippi. Jones, Peter. Anarchy [...]
responses to my I-search essay
Today we got our I-search essays back (mine available as a pdf here) along with responses from classmates. It was really cool to get some feedback on an essay that I think was fairly risky. I wanted to write about some of the responses, because they got my wheels turning. One classmate wrote back and [...]
Elbow’s view on criticism, speaking, and writing
Peter Elbow writes: The contrast between the two media [speaking and writing] is reinforced when we turn to the story of how we learn to speak and to write as individuals. We learn speech as infants—from parents who love us and naturally reward us for speaking at all. Our first audience works overtime to hear [...]
panopticism
I am in the middle of reading “Panopticism” by Foucault, and I’m certain I’ll be using this for my paper on punk pedagogy. Punk is about breaking discipline, about fighting discipline, and this essay is exactly about discipline, and it’s so true (it’s scary!): The disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals….They become [...]
punk aesthetic
From Geoffrey Sirc’s “Never Mind the Tagmemics: Where’s the Sex Pistols?” in CCC 44.1 (February 1997), pp 9-29: Punk’s was the aesthetic of the cut-up, re-making/re-modeling the materials of the dominant culture, detourning them from their bland, deadening use into something useful. It was a re-fetishization of society’s fetishes. (15) I’m in the middle of [...]
