Category Archives: Cafe Discussion Groups

Gramsci, Dogs, and Pub Cookies

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

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What does the US Navy and SLU have in common?

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

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Decoding Denotation & Discourse

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

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Interpellating Twitter

Phil, Ally, Megan, and Max (otherwise known as PAMM) are back this week for our Café Discussion Group. The topic was social media, more specifically Twitter. We thought it would be interesting and informative. Thus, we set out to explore … Continue reading

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Hello aura? Are you there?

Chloe  (Scribe), Kate As Kate and I sat down on a Sunday evening in the library, we agreed that the Frankfurt School offers an interesting connection between technology and culture, especially during a time where our society often defines our … Continue reading

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Benjamin and Technology (Snooki, Cats, and War)

Our discussion group (Nicole, Tommy, Asana, Gillian, and Kat) reflected on several topics, some of which were related to class, and others were a bit astray, though they certainly proved relevant to certain theorists. We began by talking about Benjamin’s … Continue reading

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Home Bases & Civic (Super) Structures

Let’s be real here – one likes to reflect on his or her charming hometown as an engine of Marxist theory. But yesterday, in their café discussion group (always pushing the envelope) Max, Phil, Megan, and Ally did. It wasn’t … Continue reading

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SLU Culture

During our discussion group we talked about what St. Lawrence represents and the main type of person you think of when you think SLU. Slu Culture as a whole: Work Hard, Play Hard – Boarding School, Outdoorsy, Active, Community oriented, … Continue reading

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The Many Cultures of St. Lawrence

Cafe discussion on Thursday, Sep. 12 Gillian Hunt (Scribe), Tommy Matt, Kat Lukens, Asana Hamidu & Nicole Eigbrett   As we sat outside the Sullivan student center we looked around us at a campus we all know well and discussed … Continue reading

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Discussion: Appadurai & Patterson

Our group found similarities in Appadurai and Patterson in that they both use globalization to explain the spread of culture and ideas through technology and transportation. The fast-paced interchanges between countries circulate different ideas to various cultures that before they … Continue reading

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