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My Crash Course: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. In my own defense, however, I have reasons for the way I am. I grew up gay and very religious on a farm in rural Texas. AIDS made the headlines when I was beginning to think about sex. Also, I was intelligent. A counselor once measured my IQ and then declared that he had never seen such a high score. I nonetheless concur with Peggy Hill: "Well, whoop-dee-doo! I am the smartest hillbilly in Hillbilly Town! And yes, I was class valedictorian.). Some of my happiest times have been ...
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My Crash Course: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Rocks in Your Head. Timothy Morton is an English scholar at Rice University. He is also a "speculative realist." That's fancy theoretical talk for "bullshit artist." He would have you believe–and I chose this word carefully. 8211;that there's a new way to see the world. He is wrong. The same nonsense he and his kind peddle has been around for centuries. Don't be fooled with the new name: this is the New Coke of English Departments. After 60 or so years of talking about how you c...
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My Crash Course: Angela Davis
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was from early on in bed with the FBI/CIA as an informer and useful tool, and President Richard Nixon, whom we all know as the most despicable of Presidents, should have been the ones jailed, the ones on trial. This clip is taken from the documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. You can watch the entire film on Netflix. I highly recommend it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Rocks in Your Head. Facebook Like and Share. Last 7 Days Pageviews.
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Dr William Large | Philosophy & Religion Video Interviews
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Philosophy and Religion Video Interviews. From the University of Gloucestershire. Who We Are…. Email: wlarge@glos.ac.uk. Tel: 44 (0)1242 714774. Dr William Large has a BA, MA and PhD from the University of Ess. Ex He has taught at University College Plymouth, St Mark and St John, University of Exeter, Open University, University of Essex, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. He is the author of one research monograph. Clinamen, 2005) and two textbooks,. Co-authored] (Routledge, 2001) and.
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My Crash Course: MH17
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Friday, July 17, 2015. I've been dreading this day for a year now: the first anniversary of when flight MH17 was shot down by thugs in eastern Ukraine with a Buk on loan from the Russian military. But I'm getting ahead of myself. On the sofa in the early morning haze of my first day of jet lag reading Twitter when one of the journalists in eastern Ukraine writes, Oh god…. But this isn't about my empathy, my sympathy, the sheer horror I still feel about their senseless deaths. It is about the lack of ...
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My Crash Course: March 2014
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Thursday, March 6, 2014. The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present. This ruse seems to be Putin’s attempt toward plausible deniability, except that from the very beginning of the occupation, everyone already either knew or assumed that it was indeed the Russian military coming ashore. Can it be a masquerade if nobody is really fooled? Isn’t a masquerade precisely when a person pretends to be someone else instead of pretending to be no one at all? Just as precise borders are a fiction, so, too, is the past&...
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My Crash Course: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The Adjunct: Confessions and Manifesto of a Benefits-Deprived Professor. First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct. Designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a buck—that is, all. Colleges and universities—as "temporary buildings" are at American elementary and secondary schools. We are permanent, regardless of our expendability. Or at the very least, teach your s...
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My Crash Course: February 2015
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Thursday, February 26, 2015. Antimanifesto for a Simulated World. Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media in this way: “neither information nor communication, but referendum, perpetual test, circular response, verification of the code” (75). Recently, NPR’s All Things Considered. Aired an article about new cancer research. I...
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My Crash Course: Support
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Please consider supporting the content of this blog by any of the following means:. Click on any of the book links in the "Books Read in 2016" Sidebar or in individual posts to purchase on Amazon. I receive a very small percentage through Amazon Associates. Purchase something on my Amazon Wish List. Purchase Scrivener. It's an amazing, intuitive app for writing and translating. I've been using it for years, and I love it. Donate to a great Dallas-based nonprofit organization:. Buy some of my music. Can t...
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My Crash Course: May 2015
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Friday, May 22, 2015. Toward a General Hermeneutics. Wilhelm Dilthey proposed that understanding is an impossibility unless we begin upon the firm foundation of lived, concrete experience. He saw hermeneutics as the heart of the Geisteswissenschaften. World is what binds reader, author, and text together into a unity of meaning. Trans and ed. Joel Weinsheimer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994); Gayle L. Ormiston and Alan D. Schrift, eds, The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur. We typica...
