Ludeness and Tastefull: human sexuality

Is it the case that our natural sexualities have been so repressed that the media now finds it marketable to place it at the fore front.  In about every movie as well as many sitcomes there is a sex scene or some hints of a sexual act taking place.  And what does society end up asking [...]

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Lord Byron in “Disgrace”

While reading through the end of the novel I wondered if David had really saw a change in heart as he had seen the eventual change in his status with in the social sphere that had been created for him.  For the most part his power, his leverage and control of his social sphere has [...]

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“Disgrace” by J. M. Coetzee

I found reading this novel to be very unusual.  The omnipotent narrator added this cold heir of narration to the novel, in a way perpetuatuing the distance of Professor Laurie’s character.  The foreshadowing is so blatent, I almost feel like a five year old, like the narrator is telling the story as though it is [...]

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The Culture of the once Colonized

At the beginning it was hard to read this, to accept something that I have been internally fighting against since I learned about American history in grade school.  I wanted no part in this racial battle, I wanted to be autonomous, just human.  But as Fanon pointed out, the concept of self for the colonized [...]

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