Monthly Archives: April 2017
Starship Troopers
20 years later this film is completely apposite to the Forever War mentality of the contemporary US.
Things to Consider in Advance of the Final (303)
Literary realism, its characteristics and ideological function.
Afrofuturism as a mode of representation rooted in the long-term effects of the African Diaspora, one that marries history and futurity, myth and science.
Allegory.
The mechanics of narrative.
Film form.
The bildungsroman.
Capitalist modernity.
What else?
Final Readings (415-1)
From The ABCs of Socialism:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/black-lives-matter-slavery-discrimination-socialism/
Nivedita Majumdar, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/socialism-european-western-global-south/
Recapitulation Theory (303)
Here’s a short excerpt from my dissertation regarding G. Stanley Hall’s appropriation of Ernst Haeckel’s “biogenetic law” (i.e., recapitulation). Let’s read it for next Tuesday.
Earn
Barack Obama has reportedly agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for almost half a million dollars.
The former President, who left the White House almost 100 days ago, is said to be appearing at Cantor Fitzgeralds LP’s healthcare conference as a keynote speaker in September.
@17 (220/303)
Note the psychedelic accents– that weird green disco-ribbon on the left side of the image. Also, what a technically-adept and charismatic performance.
Wild Side
Quatrain
Hair and Mise-en-scene
Which version of Clarice is more powerful?
analepsis 