Category Archives: Cultural Studies
What are We Supposed to Do With Student Evals Anyway?
This post is not to exalt evaluations as the pinnacle of student assessment. First, the hunt for great evaluations sped on by grade inflation and student pressure for good grades can negotiate a tacit contract between instructors and students-a kind … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Grad School, Teaching
Rape Culture, Rape Prevention, & Masculinity
This was an invited talk at Your Community Center in Ogden, UT on April 14, 2012 to address the connection between masculinity, rape, & culture during a Take Back the Night event. They titled the presentation “How Not To Be … Continue reading
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TSA Agent Nabbed in Child Porn Sting, Fear of TSA Increases
Consumerist, owned by Consumer Reports, keeps a healthy eye on the TSA and picked up this story by the Boston Herald that a TSA Agent was among the 55 individuals caught in a child pornography sting. Consumerist reports: The Transportation … Continue reading
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#Kony2012: Rhetoric of Retribution & Refusing to Address Incisive Criticism [Updated]
[Update] Via @KirtWilson on twitter USA Today is reporting on the first screening of the Kony 2012 in Uganda has lead to a disastrous response from Ugandans. Criticism was immediate and harsh. They report: If people in those countries care … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural Studies, Rhetoric
The Limits of Argumentative Reason: Rhetoric Advocating War with Iran
Last August my colleague Nicholas A. Russell at CSU Long Beach and I presented a paper at the 17th Biennial Conference on Argumentation held in Alta, Utah. That paper titled “Dangerous Desires: The Limits of Argumentative Reason in Public HIV/AIDS … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural Studies, Deleuze, Rhetoric
The Becoming-Nomad of the #Occupy Movement
This post is the second in a series of three using some concepts from the work of Deleuze and Guattari to chart some lines of flight through the #Occupy movement. I want to deal directly here with the tension between … Continue reading
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#OWS Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Things have gotten ugly; they have gotten ugly in Zuccotti Park, ugly in Oakland, ugly in Denver, and so on. The late night raid in New York led to a drastic reduction of protest abilities for members of the #Occupy … Continue reading
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#OccupyWallStreet Capitalism’s Death Drive, & Anti-Capitalism
#OccupyWallStreet reveals a number of propositions that need to be tested, challenges, debated, and problematized. This work cannot be done just by political pundits, but must be done by our political leaders. They need to deal seriously with the following: … Continue reading
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Feminisms and the Catch-22 of Political Life
My colleague and mentor Karrin Vasby Anderson recently wrote and outstanding piece for BagNews on the redundant visual trope of the crazy eyed woman politician. A trope most recently mustered to depict Michele Bachmann as crazy. Anderson argues that there … Continue reading
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Research Update: Summer 2011
This is a quick research brief on my current projects for the summer. Please feel free to hold me accountable. Dissertation Agenda: With my exams completed, I will spend the summer developing my dissertation prospectus and negotiating field research sites … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural Studies, Research, Rhetoric
