Category Archives: Savannah

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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Consequences of some doobage. Savannah’s individual research blog

Most Saturday nights, after Java or the Ticker, many SLU students woudn’t think wtice about lighting up a big doobie or blazing a joint. The implications and consequences for your marijuana habit however, reach farther, and are more deadly than you … 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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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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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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