I was looking for another link to What the Bleep and I found a link to a review board that looks pretty interesting: OFFOFFOFFfilm. We'll see if they vet my comment through or not. :-)
phenomenology: November 2004 Archives
I was thinking about the two movies, Huckabee's and Bleep, and what it is that makes people react so differently to them. Perhaps, its in the way they "structure" the message? Because I did read essentially the same message in both but they are packaged quite differently.
Huckabee's presents a mainly connected knowing view of the world, and Bleep is almost totally separate knowing.
(Switching back and forth between Balibar and mullets has complicated my intellectual experience this afternoon.)
Labeled one of the "extremes," Balibar marks the boundaries of possible identity- construction:
an updated version to the First International Conference on Qualitative Research. Jung Yup shared the call, and I notice the first theme is autoethnography and performance. It occurs to me that this weblog in toto is a form of autoethnography....not to mention some of the specific categories and uses to which I've put it, most specifically with my interpersonal comm classes...
Other themes are relevant to me as well: critical ethnography as performance, critical pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse analysis, decolonizing the academy (!)...indeed, this is just a sample!
One person (thanks Nadine!) approached me after the panel on Saturday saying she'd like to know how things turn out. I don't know, yet, but I'm mapping a possible path....
The overall audience response was ... remarkable, now that I stop to think about it.
