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Month: April 2015

Terror, Riot, Murder: Reading Spivak, Baltimore, and … Frankenstein?

April 28, 2015 Benjamin D. Hagen

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak begins her essay, “Terror: A Speech After 9/11” (2004), These ruminations arose in response to America’s war on terrorism. I started from

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Reading Aloud (#22 and #23): William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

April 10, 2015 Benjamin D. Hagen

William Blake The Lamb

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Reading Spivak: Random Musings on “More on Power/Knowledge” (1993)

April 10, 2015 Benjamin D. Hagen

I did not understand Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak the first time I read these words (which begin her essay “More on Power/Knowledge” in Outside in the Teaching Machine [1993,

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Reading Sedgwick: from Introduction to Touching Feeling (2003)

April 3, 2015 Benjamin D. Hagen

Here is something/someone I love:

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