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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Theory Weary
I've been living in theory land all week. I facilitated the discussion tonight ( along with my classmate Kristina) in my Multimedia class on the Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Halloway in contrast/comparison with Requim for the Media by Jean Baudrillard. We had really interesting conversation around Identity, Community and Intersubjectivity in the age of new media with a little Marxism thrown in. My brain is in pain, I have brain pain, from stretching it out to cram in all the remediation on basic socialist and feminist theory neccessary to get through any given paragraph either of these writers ever wrote. But now I am definatetly knowlegable enough on these subjects to completely misrepresent them. If I were a cyborg I would open my head right now and repalce the chip.
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Just curious... are you using the New Media Reader? It seems most of the things that you are reading are in that book. It is a great book. I have had it for a couple of years now. I am excited that these articles are being discussed.
Yes, we are, and it is a great book, I wish I had a year just to look at it. However, along with it I am also knee deep in Curriculum Theory, Advocacy and History, so my construscted, destructed or otherwize, N +1,+1 self is divided like a big theory pie. Fortunately all roads lead to Rome. Once you get to Rome, you're on your own baby.
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