Subjectivity takes on a whole new meaning when Althusser gets a hold of it. This is what happens when I assume something to be simple, some theorist comes along and makes it a lot more complicated.
Actually Althusser’s take on the subject of the subject works well with what I want to do, [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Althusserian Subject
Posted in Thesis on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Feeling and Time
Posted in Thesis on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Raymond Williams’ essay on the “structure of feeling” fixates on the idea of feeling as a fluid modality of embodied experience, primarily linked to the present. This is, in some ways, similar to Joseph Vendryes theory of affective language in which he characterizes the future tense as more affective than the past, due to [...]
I love Terry Eagleton
Posted in Thesis on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
And not just because of the way he nicely julienned Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion” demonstrating that being a religious person doesn’t necessarily mean crouching in the dirt waiting for the rapture. (I really dislike Dawkins, not so much for his being a non-theist as for his being just a general asshole.) I [...]
Ideology…Que es eso?
Posted in Thesis on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ideology is a confusing subject. I find the more I read about it the less I understand about it. I’m trying to find a theorist who makes a connection between emotion and political ideology, but the closest I can come to is Althusser. Not only do these theorists not really explain ideology [...]
Jose Marti and Literature in Modernity
Posted in Thesis on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Julio Ramos’ study of the relationship between literature and politics in 19th Century Latin America explores a few particular conditions which I would consider as precursors to the 20th Century revolutionary poet’s concern with revolution as a vehicle for the emotional union of the poetic subject and the alienated polis. In particular, Ramos’ exploration [...]
More on Political Ideology and Affect
Posted in Thesis on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While there has been research done on the psychoanalytic link to ideology (Marx’s own theories include such ideas as “false consciousness” and “fetishization”), but also by Althusser, Gramsci, Zizek and Jameson, as far as I know the link between affect and ideology is only now starting to become explored, this will be an important aspect [...]
The Affective Side of Ideology.
Posted in Thesis on May 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In case you’re wondering how Barroquismos and Barroqueces relates to Abortion and Waterboarding, the comments on the last post are a spill over from a discussion I got into on another blog, but it did get me thinking about something which touches on my research. For a wee bit of context, this is the [...]
Barroquismos
Posted in Grad Student Stuff on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m writing this post in Trudeau waiting for my flight which is delayed. At least the mac store lets me pillage their wifi for free and flip a huge “mange la merde” at the Bell corporation who wants to charge me 10 dollars for the privilege of using their precious, precious internet.
The [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen
Posted in Thesis on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I believe I have just qualified for the world’s biggest idiot award, move over Hugh Grant! (but not too far eh?) I seem to be in the habit of trying to make my life as a grad student even more impossible than it already is by accepting extra work hours when I least need them [...]
Neruda, Sentimentality and Revolution
Posted in Thesis on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, my laptop is officially out of commission for at least 3 weeks while they send it to Toronto to get fixed, so this post is going to be short and sweet as I’m writing in an internet cafe. Also I am working on getting my presentation ready for the conference in Montreal, which [...]
