It’s a Docu-Parody

Using Baudrillard to analyze our text is quite interesting, since the very text its self is a network of simulacrum.  Each theorist is detached from his or her theory in the form of parody, which alienated the true meaning and goal of the theory.  In one respect we have the image of the pimp and [...]

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Beyond the Twilight Zone

What is the true power of a symbol? And does it have the ability to take on or become a separate entity from that which it symbolizes? Does the simulation of reality equal a relative reality?
These were some of the question that arose while I was reading the piece on Bauldrillard. It [...]

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Culture: a massive dose of conformity ( Horkheimer)

One of the first things that struck me while reading this piece was the very first opening lines, explaining or pointing out rather the shift from religion to culture! Which I find scarily relevant to today. Neo-Conservatives argue that we have strayed away from morals, but our entire culture is a policing mechanism [...]

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Active vs. Passive: Judith Butler

While reading Judith Butler’s piece I kept wanting to know what the answer was. It is so depressing sometimes when you realize that almost (or according to Butler; all!) of our ideas and perceptions of ourselves are constructed by society. I mean she even goes as far as to say that this metaphysical self [...]

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Birth of the Sexual Identity!

“On the surface, what appears in both cases is an effort at elimination that was always destined to fail and always constrained to begin again.”
Foucault begins his argument at the turn of the 19th century, in which he mainly focuses on the shift of the person and their identification.  One might think that in order [...]

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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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America the Beautiful

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 [...]

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