“Historical changes that threaten the natural and social order generate oppositions and confrontations that can dissolve a community” (p. 24).
Néstor García Canclini… Read more...
Tag: Paula’s class
the paper from ____
go ahead, fill in the blank!
I wrote my opening paragraph today! (Don’t they say getting started is the hardest part?)
At least it’s a rainy day in Budapest, so I’m not (too) tempted to be outdoors goofing off instead.… Read more...
Critical Discourse Analysis
Jan Blommeart is an Africanist, ethnographer, and synergistic critical discourse analyst. Taking the terms in reverse:
Discourse &emdash; “language in society”, not just language use but also the sum of communicative acts, and these acts situated in context.
Critical &emdash; the performance of analyses that “expose and critique existing wrongs in one’s society &emdash; analyses that should be ‘brought home’” … Read more...
prepping for a presentation *sigh*
Here’s a great site on Atlanticism, mentioned as an ideological competitor with pan-Europeanism.
I’m psyched by the articles I’m assigned, but also by the piece by Susan Strange (our version is from The Global Transformations Reader).
If you didn’t read this as an argument for how to think about the conference we’re trying to organize (!) let me … Read more...
incipient
Just read this word in the introduction to Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe. In the particular context it reads negatively, as though “necessary” and “incipient” are inherently contradictory (p. 15).… Read more...
Althusser v habermas?
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 … Read more...
one of my optional days
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).… Read more...
re-invention
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 … Read more...
identity politics
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.… Read more...
mobile personality
I’m kinda liking this Lerner dude’s take on the evolution of subjectivity through modernization. Seems to me like a way of describing factors that go into the construction of a post-structural self – one that is adaptable to both deep structure (say, culture) and structure more palpable to perception (such as microsocial interaction).… Read more...