Gayle Rubin brings up a lot of good points in this essay. I like the way she addresses what she is going to be discussing right away, and doesn’t cloud up the essay with unnecessary things (the way I feel most other theorists do). In the third paragraph on page 1664, she [...]
Archive for February, 2007
They call me the beeping bandit! Because thats what I do…
Posted in theory 330 on February 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Althusser
Posted in theory 330 on February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found many of the points Althusser made to be difficult to understand but interesting at the same time. Although the language he uses takes a bit of rereading to really grasp, the things he says, once they strain a little bit of understanding out of me, are some interesting points. What was [...]
Watchmen, The End.
Posted in theory 330 on February 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While the end of the book was a little confusing from all of Veidt’s mumble jumble, it was at the same time interesting through its structure. I’m going to have to agree with the idea of Derrida’s freeplay in Watchmen because it really starts to show through all of the [...]
Watchmen 2
Posted in theory 330 on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There were a lot of things that really stood out in chapters 4-9. What I found most interesting was the connections that are made throughout every chapter. For example, when the text within the text appears from the outside comic, it leads the reader into conversation at the newsstand. [...]
Watchmen
Posted in theory 330 on February 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As soon as I opened this book I knew I was going to like it. Not only because there were pictures or because it isn’t that huge anthology book, but because I have never really read a comic before and I was looking forward to this comic clarifying what we have read thus far [...]
“Oh, I know him…They call him Freddy for short!”
Posted in theory 330 on February 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I think Jameson’s got something going here that I can actually discuss. Right off the bat he starts by explaining postmodernism and giving examples. This is extremely useful because he relates to things that aren’t foreign or too complex for me to understand. Based on these examples it seems that postmodernism just [...]
Derrida
Posted in theory 330 on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I put a kink in the chain, but now the links are, once again, all intact. This whole chain of not understanding what the hell these people are trying to say, week after, was finally altered after reading Saussure and slightly understanding it, and all of a sudden it’s back in action. [...]
