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Wilting down
After, months of writing, not writing, redrafting, brooding here’s what I have to say:
Chapter 1: Tackles Nancy Fraser’s argument about the relationship between recognition and redistribution with examples from the Indian social movement organization I am studying. It shows the difficulty of building a working class women’s movement in the face of religious, caste, and [...]
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Solipsism and Walter Pater
so, i’ve been reading walter pater. and i realized (and i kind of remember this vaguely form my education in eng. lit too) that the medieval ages were perhaps pretty solipsistic too. one could find petrarch something similar to prufrock. but the renaissance as pater seems to be making the case is tried to get [...]
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Essay Writing Tips
i was thinking that for each of the concepts i am going after:
1) the problem of the political imaginary (intersubjectivity, solipsism, false consciousness)
2) rhetoric as modalities (not spatial spheres or just speech)
i could visit this idea in 3/4 important thinkers on this topic and distill what they have to say and show the growth/changes in [...]
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One of the panels that was on in the 2007 NCA a philosopher came to hear me speak. Ted George. He didn’t ask me anything but he asked one of the co-panelists who was presenting a paper on autoethnography a question she or any of the panelists could not wrap their heads around. [...]
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In an argument between Hegel’s notion of intersubjective recognition and misrecognition and De Certeau’s (and Deleuze) ideas of making do by toggling between codes as far as AIDWA is concerned the latter win.
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Imagination and modalities
I think they are reaching the same place though with different attitudes based on their different contexts of their existence.
Modalities [...]
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Voice Recording March.2008
Communication and organizing are essential to one another. The fact of communication is an extension towards an other which creates a community. It is in that regard that we can treat the problem of organizing as communicatively constituted. I think it isn’t simply that communication is needed for organizing but the fact [...]
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Communism/Marxism films
The film that I’ve been trying to remember is called Love and Anger (Thanks, S!). The part directed by Godard is loveliest, methinks. Though there is a part directed by Marco Bellocchio called Discutiamo, Discutimo that is the one I was thinking about. And the other film is Man With a Movie Camera. Delicious movies. [...]
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Note to self: Need Examples
I need examples from film, literature, art, for Unit 3. Oh fuck, I just got them after thinking about them all this while at Barnes & Noble! Wow, I must say I love blogging. Ok, if I ever taught Marxism/Communism which fucking movies would show: Metropolis, I am Cuba, Marco Bellocchio’s (I forget the name), [...]
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