I couldn’t help but feel a chill run down my spine as I read Althussures piece on state apparatuses, it reminded me so much of the framework of our American social systems. Our government works on both playing feilds with the RSA as our public policies and foreign relations and the ISA as our national [...]
Archive for February, 2007
America the Beautiful
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The American Obsession with Saving the Damsel.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The key figure in most heroic pieces is the dame, the damsel in distress. This woman is often portrayed as stupid, blonde and always getting herslef into tough binds. Then there is the super hero or the “masked avenger” that saves her from her own stupidity. So who is the damsel in the Watchmen? Who [...]
Sassure and The Watchmen
Posted in ENG 330 on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sassure argues that the structure of language is homogeneous in nature, however speech is hetergeneous. Each language has its own set of signifiers and signified but speech actually takes signifiers from many different dialects. As a culture we make an agreement to name one things as another. The name of the object is an abstract [...]
The Graphic Novel
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is visual literature? Is the graphic novel less than literature because it takes that which we see in our heads and place them visually on the page? Or is it less because most are set in a fictisious world, disbanning all laws of reality?
When one reads a novel we expect the perfect amount of [...]
Postmodernism
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“To write–
The inkstand, crystal as a conscience, within its depths its drop of shadow relative to having something be: then take away the lamp.”
– stephane mallarme
It is in this idea of recreation and deconstruction that Jameson analyzes the essence of Post modernism. This is the era in which that which was new and modern [...]
What is Structure? (Derrida)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Normally when we think about structure we think about a core. In essence the core is a solid that is unbreakable and dense. This core holds together all ideals and explains away all ambiguity. Then from this core all other ideas branch out creating beams that hold up the different sections the come from [...]
COmments: Jameson
Posted in comments on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kim comment: ha ha ha I thought of Stein as well when reading Jameson last night. Its almost like Stein was saying about always being in the new… always changing the doing by seeing differently. So we have to continually deconstruct the formally constructed or “classic”… aaah it is all comming together now.
Joei comment: I [...]
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