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New Literature and New Music
While looking through Freedom to decide which excerpt I found the most intriguing for the blog discussion I was listening to what is becoming a rapidly popular song– ”Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye. Listening to the lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged "Somebody that I Used to Know", Freedom, Gotye, jonathran franzen
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Rape Image
Whenever reading the passage in Freedom about Patty’s rape scene I was enraged by the comments made by her father regarding her participation. Pg. 46 “You shake it off. Move on. Learn to be more careful.” Pg. 47 “But sometimes … Continue reading
Submission
The Submission is the title of this work done by Amy Waldman, and while it may be obvious that the submission regards the submission of the artwork to the memorial committee the other definition of submission does not come into … Continue reading
Southland-Now
Instead of focusing on a specific passage from the graphic novel, I’m focusing on the specific instance within the movie whenever Krista Now discusses her plans at lunch to launch her new career. Krista explains how she is revamping her … Continue reading
Real or Radical Claim?
The passage that I chose from Welcome to the Desert of the Real was chosen because, based off of our discussion in class on Tuesday, I could not decide whether or not his statement was one of his radical claims that … Continue reading
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Tagged Lacanian Real, Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real!
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unMarked
While reading David Foster Wallace’s “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way,” I was primarily confused and disoriented about what I was supposed to be taking notice of. Only a few instances in the novella were noticeably part of a … Continue reading
Remaking Originals
Reblogged from tessalicia: Okay, so I’ll admit that whenever I do watch the super bowl I generally am one of those people that enjoys the commercials the most. However, having not even watched the game this year or any of … Continue reading
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Wikipedia and White Noise
Here’s an article that I thought was interesting regarding what has been going on with Wikipedia and if there was no internet in general, specifically when one woman says “I think it’s easier to get off heroin.” http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53336240-79/internet-wikipedia-experts-protest.html.csp I think … Continue reading
Why Bother?
From the media clips and the reading excerpts that we were assigned, there were two things that stuck out to me the most, both from Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Why Bother?’ First, was the correlation that Franzen built between the black lesbian … Continue reading
