Tag: Lisa’s Class

trickle down democracy

Camille, thanks so much for taking on the “grand narrative” bit and reminding us that’s passe! The term that came to mind as an alternative is scaffolding. We need some kind of networked structure of tropes and metaphors that complement each other but can be deployed variously and flexibly in myriad situations.… Read more...

implicit vs explicit classism

Well, I’m going to use the rant against the south as my explicit text, am still looking for an implicit one. Meanwhile, some blogs that discuss FTS.com and may be of future/further interest:
the liberal reality-based avenger” who is based in China.
StumbleUpon, a community tool that acts as a search engine of sites recommended by “friends and peers” … Read more...

classist discrimination

This one really bothered me. Maybe cuz of Lisa’s class and a resultant heightened awareness. First, there was forcing all the Hispanics in Atlanta to prove – for the second time – that they were U.S. citizens and therefore eligble to vote. Now comes this:… Read more...

intellectualizing “the gaze”

I’ve been getting clearer about some of the academic impulses (indoctrination?) that I’ve been resisting. This, from Paul Claudel on Bourdieu’s principle of aesthetic distance, sums it up:
“This typically intellectualist theory of artistic perception directly contradicts the experience of the art-lovers closest to the legitimate definition; acquisition of legitimate culture by insensible familiarization within the family circle tends to … Read more...

from whence to where?

This is my required question for Lisa’s course on Class Cultures.
Where my head is with all of the above is the convergence among curriculum in all my classes and in my head around the mediated construction of subjectivity.
My question is influenced by the lecture given by historian Dipesh Chakrabartty at Mt. Holyoke on Thursday, 10/28. He talked about … Read more...

articulation?

Class (as in our group of students and professor, smile) seemed more energetic last night than prevously. We’ve had good discussions all along, but last nght we got into some moments of…debate…(?)…I’m not sure how to characterize it. Lisa pushed me pretty hard, I guess she thinks I can take it. 😉 Lynn too cautioned about conflation – generalizing statements … Read more...

Professionalization

This piece by Burton J. Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism, is amazing. My mind was spinning with thoughts about Critical Link 4 and Mette Rudvin’s presentation and paper (that I referenced in my submission to the Proceedings). (Many links cite him; here’s one of interest.)
He says professionalization is the penultimate triumph of the “Mid-Victorians” exerting control over … Read more...

overdetermination of suffering

Well, I don’t know, but I would guess that we ended up about where Lisa was hoping we’d end up in our discussion last night. 🙂 I was noticing how oriented I am to “structure of feeling”, how Marxist-oriented (or at least well-grounded) many (most? all?) of the new cohort is, and now wondering about poststructuralist group dynamics. 🙂 … Read more...