Paula's class: March 2005 Archives

We (thankfully) postponed Habermas for a week, and I'm trying to prep for Mass Comm this afternoon - have finished Gramsci and now onto Althusser, which I did read before (last year, Li gave it to me thinking it might relate to the mentoring project, hmmmm. :-)

There's a section here that has me thinking back on the private-public debate between me and Stephen (last entry February 21).

Althusser writes: "The distinction between the public and the private is a distinction internal to bourgeois law, and valid in the (subordinate) domains in which bourgeois law exercises its 'authority'" (1971, 137).

Paula told us we could selectively choose two days in which we did not complete the readings. Here comes the first of mine, regrettably on a heavily foundational day. :-( But.

And. Other things have taken precedence. I hope at least to get through Gramsci on Americanism and Fordism.

Spent hours on Hall (enjoyably so).

Liminality. Who will I be? Who do I want to be?

In LinguaMoo I want to be rewind. (I wanted to be endless reflexivity but it wouldn't accept that - I think I needed an underscore. Oh well. rewind is better.)

In pmc2 - a different space. How do these relate to each other? LinguaMoo is e-theory...experimentation and application of/with theory (or so I gather...)

pmc2 is ... for play? Or, perhaps, for plurking? (although I wager such is welcome in LinguaMoo, too).

Interesting NCA paper, on Reading Identity Politics through Marx.

Critique of Althusser and also of Foucault: A Lover's Discourse: Using French Social Thought for Media Criticism.