Category Archives: Affect

apathy in the student mill

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Michael

I’m still reading Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Mind. He’s coming to campus in October to speak, and I’d really like to finish the book by then. In fact, Sara Jameson has urged all the TA’s … Continue reading →

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Going Postal

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Michael

In “Going Postal,” Worsham “argue[s] that if our commitment is to real individual and social change — change that would finally dissolve the relationship between pedagogy and violence — then the work of decolonization must occur at the affective level, … Continue reading →

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Jameson on Postmodernism and Affect

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Michael

So, I find myself reading things that I don’t completely understand. It seems like whenever I read something, I find that there are dozens of references I don’t get, like I’m a culturally incompetetent twit. Actually, to be more accurate, … Continue reading →

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Vitanza’s concerns with cynicism

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Michael

In “‘The Wasteland Grows,’” Vitanza asks what I think are some amazing questions regarding the creation of cynicism in students when we teach cultural studies. Drawing on Sloterdijk and Zizek, he wonders whether students, after instruction in cultural studies, “‘they … Continue reading →

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miasmic cynicism

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Michael

I just read the following two articles: Langstraat, Lisa. “The Point Is There Is No Point: Miasmic Cynicism and Cultural Studies Composition.” JAC 22.2 (2002): 293-325. Crawford, Ilene. “Building a Theory of Affect in Cultural Studies Composition Pedagogy.” JAC 22.3 … Continue reading →

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