Monthly Archives: October 2013

Orientalsim is a term used to describe the Western perception of the Middle East. Edward Said notes its difficult to understand true Orientalism due to principles of the production of knowledge. the first principle being, that it is difficult to … Continue reading →

Asana Hamidu (Scribe),Tommy Matt, Kat Lukens, Gillian Hunt, & Nicole Eigbrett 10/3/13 It was a sunny day and we met infront of the student center, exchanged pleasantries and moved on to discuss the subject at hand. Before we moved on … Continue reading →

9/19/13 Tommy Matt (Scribe), Kat Lukens, Gillian Hunt, Asana Hamidu & Nicole Eigbrett Our Cafe Discussion started out by discussing the ISA.  We all agreed that the church used to be the most important ISA, but we wanted to talk about … Continue reading →

As we sat down on Sunday evening, we tried to decompress the section “Myth Today” from Roland Barthes Mythologies. Immediately, the consensus was that we hoped we didn’t have a quiz. However, we did agree on other things dealing with … Continue reading →

PAMM here, we’re back with another blog post, this time we’re focused on denotative and connotative meanings within discourses as well as exploring encoding and decoding. During class, we had talked about the near impossibility of something that only has … Continue reading →