After doing the readings for this week it seems like the main theme of difference is race. What I think was more interesting. Was that they all had to do with the white/black binary. I think the notion of other races appeared only a handful of times in the article on Obama and not at [...]
In our short time at the Ackland Museum this week, we were introduced to the constructions of fame and the self through a postmodernist lens. During the first half of our class time Monday, we focused on the construction of fame through the sculptural portrayals of “great men.” These portrayals captured these “great men” as [...]
POSTED ON BEHALF OF LORI BALDWIN The following thoughts I recorded after reading the Hooks piece before class on Friday: As I started to read the Hooks piece on “Postmodern Blackness” I appreciated the statement that most of the intellectual discussion and debate “is dominated primarily by the voices of white male intellectuals and/or academic [...]
What can I say about bell hooks? I don’t know if it was the fact that I tried to start reading her work at midnight or if she is always that difficult to push through, but I had a somewhat rough time picking out everything she said. Before this reading her piece, I never really [...]
This week’s reading gave insight into the history behind Postmodernism, or more strictly interpreted, Poststructuralism. The reading began by telling us of the behavior of cultures in the past, such as in the Middle Ages, who tried to root out other societies that held opposing beliefs. This is compared to today’s culture, which is a [...]
Wow. This week’s readings were dense. I will try to cover most of the ideas introduced by postmodernism and poststructuralism in this response. It’s still pretty shaky in my head, and I also tend to have crazy thought patterns, so sorry if some of what I say does not make sense to you. But hey, [...]
