Week 1 12/02/2021
Assessments
- Seminar Leadership
- 45 mins
- You prepare something.
- Response paper
- May be academic paper
- They can be creative pieces!!
- Could be poetry or a short story
- Possibly add a short explanation is your intention is unclear
- Research paper
- Formal academic
- On a topic not done in the seminar, may re-use part of a response
Butler
- Conclusions in Butler’s opening
- Gender performativity cannot be theorised apart from the forcible and reiterative of
regulatory sexual regimes.
- The account of agency conditioned by those vary regimes of discourse / power cannot
be con ated with voluntarism or individualism, much less with consumerism, and in no
way presupposes a choosing subject.
- Important questions at the end
- How does that materialisation of the norm in bodily formation produce aa domain of
objected bodies, a eld of deformation, which, in failing to qualify as the fully human,
forti es those regulatory norms?
- What challenge does that excluded and abjected realm produce to a symbolic
hegemony that might force a radical rearticulation of what quali es as bodies that
matter, ways of living that counts as “life,” lives worth protecting, lives worth saving,
lives worth grieving?
Test for regulatory sexual regimes from a non-conforming perspective
- Genderqueer Jacob Tobia, author of Sissy, who uses they/them
- “I want to live in a world where gender is a playful thing where there is no patriarchy, no
misogyny… I want [gender] to feel like a dress-up bin”
Helpful terms from Butler for Gender in Literature
- Citation - cite
- …
Morrison
- Describes a set norm, not just gender but also wealth.
- Going against everything that’s said in the introduction.
- Gender and class are sometimes hard to separate
- White privilege is in the system.
- Alarming thoughts about the doll
- She’d be mothering the doll, it was the best doll you could get.
- She doesn’t want to play mother with this new doll.
- The protagonist feels like she’s being treated unfairly even by the other poc.
- Why do they hate me even when I get sick?
- There’s a social hierarchy, white people and white girls are on top, black girls are on the
bottom.
- The moment we learn the protagonist’s name is when her mother calls her puke Claudia.
- Colourism is very important in this book, there are gender issues too, but those stem from
the fascination with the white doll.
- Beauty standards are already very gendered, the women have to care more about the beauty
standards.
- Colourism subform of racism (those with lighter skin within the pic community can be seen
as having more privilege).
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, Seminar leadership Kraus
- Options:
- Classic seminar leadership that focusses on the book
- Combine book & article
- Do something creative? New format that we can use?
- Add depth or make the novel more approachable
- Feminist humour
- Funny women
- Tradition of women in american comedy
Week 2 17/02/2021
Genealogy
- Examples: Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche Madness and Civilization by Foucault
- Genealogy – is a search for the origin of our notion of a concept like good/evil, good/bad, or
mad/civilized by looking the legal system and its media (guides, court cases, diaries, and
other writings) as well as its assumptions and terms.
3 traits in the genealogy of new media by Botler and Grusin
- Hypermediacy: A style of visual representation whose goal is to remind the viewer of the
medium. Self-re ective moments: major characteristic.
- Immediacy (or transparent immediacy) A style of visual representation whose goal is to make
the viewer forget the presence of the medium (canvas, photographic lm, cinema, and so on)
and believe that she is in the presence of the object of representation. It suggests that the
viewer suspend their disbelief. Jane Austen lms
- Remediation: the formal logic by which new media refashion prior media forms. Painting
Camera-Film-TV-smartphone video.
Limitations of Botler and Grusin
- Mainly see American optimism about new media. Media critics are those Americans who
read Europeans (61)?
- Downplay critiques of the new evils of the new media
- “Children of Pornhub” (NYT, Dec. 2020)
- Extremist Echo Chambers: Storming of the Capitol, January 6, 2021
- Neglect American religious and political beliefs in community salvation/redemption/healing.
Example: Biden’s campaign.
- However, media can change the society.
Insights on power in media
- As we can learn from a visit to any traditional museum, the space between viewer and
canvas is controlled, institutionalized, and policed as a special, real kind of space….The
colonization of museum space has extended to the space between a photographer
or videographer and the object of her mediating technology.
Practices & terms from Botler and Grusin
- Playing with social media in the novel
- Remediation-letters, text message in the novels
- Hypertext & cyberspace in Pynchon
- Media may have a social mission
- Aim of both hypermediacy and immediacy—“to evoke an immediate (and therefore authentic)
emotional response”
Questions on Media in Lit
1. What media are remediated?
2. Is it a media with a mission? Can the media change the world?
3. Do the media create a sense of immediacy to evoke an emotional response?
4. Are there element of hypermediacy like pointing out that the media is a media?
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Assessments
- Seminar Leadership
- 45 mins
- You prepare something.
- Response paper
- May be academic paper
- They can be creative pieces!!
- Could be poetry or a short story
- Possibly add a short explanation is your intention is unclear
- Research paper
- Formal academic
- On a topic not done in the seminar, may re-use part of a response
Butler
- Conclusions in Butler’s opening
- Gender performativity cannot be theorised apart from the forcible and reiterative of
regulatory sexual regimes.
- The account of agency conditioned by those vary regimes of discourse / power cannot
be con ated with voluntarism or individualism, much less with consumerism, and in no
way presupposes a choosing subject.
- Important questions at the end
- How does that materialisation of the norm in bodily formation produce aa domain of
objected bodies, a eld of deformation, which, in failing to qualify as the fully human,
forti es those regulatory norms?
- What challenge does that excluded and abjected realm produce to a symbolic
hegemony that might force a radical rearticulation of what quali es as bodies that
matter, ways of living that counts as “life,” lives worth protecting, lives worth saving,
lives worth grieving?
Test for regulatory sexual regimes from a non-conforming perspective
- Genderqueer Jacob Tobia, author of Sissy, who uses they/them
- “I want to live in a world where gender is a playful thing where there is no patriarchy, no
misogyny… I want [gender] to feel like a dress-up bin”
Helpful terms from Butler for Gender in Literature
- Citation - cite
- …
Morrison
- Describes a set norm, not just gender but also wealth.
- Going against everything that’s said in the introduction.
- Gender and class are sometimes hard to separate
- White privilege is in the system.
- Alarming thoughts about the doll
- She’d be mothering the doll, it was the best doll you could get.
- She doesn’t want to play mother with this new doll.
- The protagonist feels like she’s being treated unfairly even by the other poc.
- Why do they hate me even when I get sick?
- There’s a social hierarchy, white people and white girls are on top, black girls are on the
bottom.
- The moment we learn the protagonist’s name is when her mother calls her puke Claudia.
- Colourism is very important in this book, there are gender issues too, but those stem from
the fascination with the white doll.
- Beauty standards are already very gendered, the women have to care more about the beauty
standards.
- Colourism subform of racism (those with lighter skin within the pic community can be seen
as having more privilege).
fi fl fi fi
, Seminar leadership Kraus
- Options:
- Classic seminar leadership that focusses on the book
- Combine book & article
- Do something creative? New format that we can use?
- Add depth or make the novel more approachable
- Feminist humour
- Funny women
- Tradition of women in american comedy
Week 2 17/02/2021
Genealogy
- Examples: Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche Madness and Civilization by Foucault
- Genealogy – is a search for the origin of our notion of a concept like good/evil, good/bad, or
mad/civilized by looking the legal system and its media (guides, court cases, diaries, and
other writings) as well as its assumptions and terms.
3 traits in the genealogy of new media by Botler and Grusin
- Hypermediacy: A style of visual representation whose goal is to remind the viewer of the
medium. Self-re ective moments: major characteristic.
- Immediacy (or transparent immediacy) A style of visual representation whose goal is to make
the viewer forget the presence of the medium (canvas, photographic lm, cinema, and so on)
and believe that she is in the presence of the object of representation. It suggests that the
viewer suspend their disbelief. Jane Austen lms
- Remediation: the formal logic by which new media refashion prior media forms. Painting
Camera-Film-TV-smartphone video.
Limitations of Botler and Grusin
- Mainly see American optimism about new media. Media critics are those Americans who
read Europeans (61)?
- Downplay critiques of the new evils of the new media
- “Children of Pornhub” (NYT, Dec. 2020)
- Extremist Echo Chambers: Storming of the Capitol, January 6, 2021
- Neglect American religious and political beliefs in community salvation/redemption/healing.
Example: Biden’s campaign.
- However, media can change the society.
Insights on power in media
- As we can learn from a visit to any traditional museum, the space between viewer and
canvas is controlled, institutionalized, and policed as a special, real kind of space….The
colonization of museum space has extended to the space between a photographer
or videographer and the object of her mediating technology.
Practices & terms from Botler and Grusin
- Playing with social media in the novel
- Remediation-letters, text message in the novels
- Hypertext & cyberspace in Pynchon
- Media may have a social mission
- Aim of both hypermediacy and immediacy—“to evoke an immediate (and therefore authentic)
emotional response”
Questions on Media in Lit
1. What media are remediated?
2. Is it a media with a mission? Can the media change the world?
3. Do the media create a sense of immediacy to evoke an emotional response?
4. Are there element of hypermediacy like pointing out that the media is a media?
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