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Visual Culture of Language

After presenting our discussion of Visual Culture and the role of the media, I began to draw connections to my case study. I would argue that language can also be considered visual culture, which was evident in the article about … Continue reading

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Derrida and Wikipedia

We found Derrida’s reading very hard and our discussion was dominated by questions we wished we could answer.  However, with serious back and forth discussion, we were confident in our understanding of some parts of his work. We were very … Continue reading

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Making Sense of Myths

During our discussion, we broke down the four essays that we chose: First off, we dove into “Novels and Children,” which might have been better named something like “women as writers, but in actuality, women as mothers and housewives and … Continue reading

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“I wanna be Sedated!” Cafe Discussion 2/19 Allison,Nathan,Savannah

The video on Korean Punk sparked an interesting discussion and a bit of a debate between the members of our Café Discussion Group. Ideally, I would like to agree with the theories of both Appadurai and Patterson. I would like … Continue reading

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A snippet of history: English in Kenya & Tanzania

One of the main goals of the Global Studies department is historicity: In order to understand changes associated with contemporary globalization, we have to realize the effects of long-term historical processes. This couldn’t be more true for my case study … Continue reading

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Open Access Movement

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a … Continue reading

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Imperialism of English Language Introduction

Colonization not only changed the make-up of the world geographically, but it also changed (and continues to change) how humans interact. Think of our own country. The British came and “explored new territory” and established themselves in this “new land.” … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street: False Consciousness of the Subaltern

False Consciousness: Marx’s idea that “everybody in capitalist society has the same ideology.” Thus, the ideas of the ruling class rule. We broke this idea down and applied it the ideas of superstructure and base whereby the ideas in the … Continue reading

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