Challenging the Reproduction of Gender Inequality in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
In Anne Brontë’s novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ideological apparatuses, as defined by Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, work to mold and sustain vast differences between men and women in the early nineteenth century. Each gender is groomed to occupy a separate [...]
I’m devolving into a babbling idiot. I blame the mad dash for the semester’s end. In true cyborg style I warn you:
RAM IS CRITICALLY LOW.
NO MORE INPUT PLEASE.
PREFACE:
In June of 1977, my grandmother watched the launch of NASA’s Viking 1 Mars mission on TV. Before the craft sent photos back to Earth, scientists believed that the little red planet [...]
Consider this an application add-on to my Baudrillard post below.
According to the Yahoo article, ”BBC, Geldof join forces to draw up a map of mankind,” Bob Geldof says:
This will be an A to Z of Mankind, which will catalogue the world we live in now, the people who share this planet, the way we live and the [...]
REPRESENTATION: The sign and the real are equivalent
Although Jean Baudrillard recently passed away, he lives on through the memories of his family and ”The Precession of the Simulacra,” a theory bequeathed to his readers. Sadly, as is the nature of death announcements, Baudrillard has since become a representation of himself in the eyes of the public.
SIMULATION: Substituting signs of the real for the real [...]
I’m posting this for Michael and Elliot, who recently had me reminiscing about my encounter with black pudding and haggis. I dug through my old flight journal to retreive this entry, going all the way back to…
June 25, 1999
My First Time in Brighton, UK
Photo caption: How many flight attendants fit in the loo of a 777?
Our crew reached [...]
THE TRAGEDY
Cynicism runs rampant in “Dialectic of Enlightenment.” Horkheimer and Adorno present us, once again, with a theory that embraces “death of the individual. ” I felt compelled to draft an obituary in honor of the loss (–>).
H&A set up the tragedy by saying:
The culture industry as a whole has molded men as a type unfailingly [...]
These are merely a few thoughts that presented easily for me.
Foucault and Cho sittin’ in a tree…
There are SO MANY different types of sexual discourse within Cho’s performance of I’m the One that I Want: gay, straight, drunk, slutty, medical - and people pay to hear all about it. We are not a prudish population overall. [...]
BODY AND SOUL
Judith Butler, in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), explores the process by which society inscribes identity on the body. Before this happens, a body has a sex or silhouette but no specific gender. External sources, not internal, determine gender identity by way of “surface politics” (2496) and ”the law of heterosexual coherance” (2498). [...]
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