i don't have a scanner.
my ta is so smart. but down to earth, reactive. i love that...more about it, later.
and next week i have a big exam, and the central question is--
Write a five-paragraph essay arguing to what degree interpersonal communication is possible.
! i mean. well.
i think...i find it amusing how much i reflect my studies, and how my studies always also wind up pertaining to my own problems too. i think the flow goes both ways. maybe i should study communication, to find out why i can never accomplish it to satisfaction.
rob told me his head hurt after we hung out. i feel kind of low, in that it never seems possible lately to talk..."normally," i mean. i want a swingset, too. and i know i always end up sounding like a schizo psychobabbler unsure of herself academicallystereotypical femalespeaking usinglotsofmodifiers pussyfooting and wringinghands superficiallyfrettin' girl here. but. but. i don't yet know how to break free of that--i have so many questions and unresolved ends, little bits of woolly string dangling from coat pockets. really.
i wonder all the time, and wonder also. when it will be, that i can drink tea and eat lunch and not get all wordy. that could be sweetness.
anyway.
10 MINUTE QUIZ, CALHOUN'S "BLIND GESTURES"
State the author's thesis (or main point) - 20%
Analysis and performance of gesture has illuminated a "gap,"or & multifaceted meaning, in the form of communication. Gestu This gap of mechanical expression vs deeper meaning concerns how viewer interacts with the view--in theater, for example--illuminates idea of awareness vs the unaware / construction vs naivete
Describe the type of evidence used - 10%
theorists in psychoanalysis, gaze/film theories (Lacan, Derrida), literary/dramatic (Kleist, Moliere), Chaplin's films (close "reading" of City Lights), Diderot, Lessing's take on drama, historical and anecdotal (train movie legend)
Evaluate the evidence used - 10%
Adept at threading theorists together to strengthen pt (ie Chaplin and post-Enlightenment theater both exposing artifice in upperclass/cultured)
Give two positive points about the article - 20%
a) Notes audience as important/involved increa formation of spectacle a as what's "onstage"--a subtle and important acknowledgment
b) Combines issue of political/class (ie Chaplin's exposing class posturing, the musing re: Hitler) BUT within a psychoanalyticac frame/slant--possibly novel. Allows for individual focus
Give two negative points about the article - 20%
a) Analyzing aesthetic notions such as comedy and beauty through psychoanalytic lensof regarding tension and fear is i limiting, not to mention not necessarily universal
b) Connecting the increasing disenchantment of the audience w/ the blind who finally sees is questionable, as is the notion that the sense-deficient individual gives us a window into "naive" or primitive man--this ignores other ling. theory and assumes blind don't have systems as defined and problematic as the seeing
State what course concepts apply to the article and why they do - 10%
Connects w/ comm and hist lecture--Chaplin exposing idea that through gesture we reiterate culturally constructed mechanical posturing, and make it seem "natural." Also, gesture is of course a comm form, and complicated/nuanced
Discuss questions the article brings up that require future investigation by communication researchers and how they might go about pursuing these questions - 10%
Webcams--exposure, changes?
internet (nature of)
individual/mass
self discretion, privacy TODAY
has it changed
watched and watching
willingness, desire
the usual--hope held out, promise not made good on--constant swing between hope and despair over if/what can be conveyed (and does one wish to)
and next week i have a big exam, and the central question is--
Write a five-paragraph essay arguing to what degree interpersonal communication is possible.
! i mean. well.
i think...i find it amusing how much i reflect my studies, and how my studies always also wind up pertaining to my own problems too. i think the flow goes both ways. maybe i should study communication, to find out why i can never accomplish it to satisfaction.
rob told me his head hurt after we hung out. i feel kind of low, in that it never seems possible lately to talk..."normally," i mean. i want a swingset, too. and i know i always end up sounding like a schizo psychobabbler unsure of herself academicallystereotypical femalespeaking usinglotsofmodifiers pussyfooting and wringinghands superficiallyfrettin' girl here. but. but. i don't yet know how to break free of that--i have so many questions and unresolved ends, little bits of woolly string dangling from coat pockets. really.
i wonder all the time, and wonder also. when it will be, that i can drink tea and eat lunch and not get all wordy. that could be sweetness.
anyway.
10 MINUTE QUIZ, CALHOUN'S "BLIND GESTURES"
State the author's thesis (or main point) - 20%
Analysis and performance of gesture has illuminated a "gap,"
Describe the type of evidence used - 10%
theorists in psychoanalysis, gaze/film theories (Lacan, Derrida), literary/dramatic (Kleist, Moliere), Chaplin's films (close "reading" of City Lights), Diderot, Lessing's take on drama, historical and anecdotal (train movie legend)
Evaluate the evidence used - 10%
Adept at threading theorists together to strengthen pt (ie Chaplin and post-Enlightenment theater both exposing artifice in upperclass/cultured)
Give two positive points about the article - 20%
a) Notes audience as important/involved in
b) Combines issue of political/class (ie Chaplin's exposing class posturing, the musing re: Hitler) BUT within a psychoanalytic
Give two negative points about the article - 20%
a) Analyzing aesthetic notions such as comedy and beauty through psychoanalytic lens
b) Connecting the increasing disenchantment of the audience w/ the blind who finally sees is questionable, as is the notion that the sense-deficient individual gives us a window into "naive" or primitive man--this ignores other ling. theory and assumes blind don't have systems as defined and problematic as the seeing
State what course concepts apply to the article and why they do - 10%
Connects w/ comm and hist lecture--Chaplin exposing idea that through gesture we reiterate culturally constructed mechanical posturing, and make it seem "natural." Also, gesture is of course a comm form, and complicated/nuanced
Discuss questions the article brings up that require future investigation by communication researchers and how they might go about pursuing these questions - 10%
Webcams--exposure, changes?
internet (nature of)
individual/mass
self discretion, privacy TODAY
has it changed
watched and watching
willingness, desire
the usual--hope held out, promise not made good on--constant swing between hope and despair over if/what can be conveyed (and does one wish to)