Haraway brings up a rather interesting topic of cyborgs in her essay, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”. She defines cyborgs as “a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” (2269). Haraway focuses on cyberfeminism, feminism and “technosceince” or the role of technology deeply ingrained [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Cyborgs!
Posted in theory 330 on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Baudrillard…Simulacrum
Posted in theory 330 on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Baudrillard’s essay really acted as a continuation of what Horkheimer and Adorno were saying. Being that he was largely influenced by their writing, he too focuses on the influence film, TV, and advertising as replacing reality which in turn leads culture into a “hyperreality” where the distinction between real and imagined is lost. [...]
Film, an extension of life?
Posted in theory 330 on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Horkheimer and Adorno would definitely argue that movie-goers tend to make film an extension of their lives forced on them by the culture industry. They state in their essay, “The whole world is made to pass through the filter of the culture industry” (1226). A large focus of their essay is how films [...]
Margaret Cho
Posted in theory 330 on April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
First let me say that Margaret Cho is the best. I absolutely loved watching her stand up comedy and the faces she made to imitate her mother had me dieing. On the other hand, in relation to theory, she constantly addresses the issues of race gender and sexuality in society. I often [...]
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
Posted in theory 330 on April 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I could grasp much of what Butler was addressing in her essay Gender Trouble, but often found myself confused as to what things were specifically her ideas. She asks a lot of questions and I didn’t always feel as though she addressed those questions, but she does quote Foucault a lot and his idea [...]
Theory and the English Symposium
Posted in theory 330 on April 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The faculty reading at the English Symposium really got me thinking about Foucault and his celebration, if you will, of deviance. I was surprised at the faculty readings and their vast relation to Foucault’s stress of bringing sex into discourse. Foucault states,
“…the nearly infinite task of telling–telling oneself and another, as often [...]
