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Hang the Homos
In October of 2010 a year after Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill was first introduced to parliament, a Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone (Not at all related to the American magazine) published a story exposing the names, pictures and whereabouts of 100 Ugandan … Continue reading
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Performing Butler
This week’s discussion centered on Judith Butler and her article on identity and gender. Butler’s article introduced some very interesting concepts including gender, identity, performing identities. We especially liked that her article was more personal and somewhat relatable than some … Continue reading
Here we go!
For my individual research project I will be studying how Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been portrayed in both Ugandan and American media. For the IDS portion of the Kenya Semester Program I was working for a small NGO called Slum … Continue reading
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Where did our soul go?
Our group was extremely interested in Jameson and Harvey’s arguments regarding postmodernism effect on art. Both theorists agree that the art, architecture, and literature that are produced today lacks the depth and soul found in work before postmodernism. Jameson argues … Continue reading
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Mythologies Discussion
Barthes’ writing pushed our group to look deeper into the meaning of things such as holidays, wine, striptease and travel and the myths that surround them. The first essay we discussed was “The Writer on Holiday” and determined that the … Continue reading
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Our Nation: American pop culture obsession?
This week’s cafe discussion was about Our Nation a short documentary about punk rock in South Korea. We all agreed on enjoying the film and how it explained the beginnings and development of punk rock in Seoul, S. Korea. We enjoyed … Continue reading
The Syrian Uprising
During our discussion our group felt that the ideas of Gramsci and Williams were very applicable to the events currently taking place in Syria. As Gramsci states in his work a social group’s power is established through two ways: “domination” … Continue reading
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