I'm pulling a late night doing research and I am reading one of the most gendered articles ever. It is making me exceedingly uncomfortable.

And in holding particular men responsible, it pays them the respect that is due them as men. Anger recognizes that only men have the capacity to be moral beings and, in so doing, acknowledges the dignity of ( Read more... )

While researching, I stumbled across an article in the Utne Reader called "Our Blackberries, Ourselves: How our Technologically Driven 'Talk Culture' Stunts Self Expression and Sacrifices Our Autonomy." It's an interview with a MIT professor who thinks that "it is a concern when self-expression becomes more important than social action." And I ( Read more... )

( over 1.5k words on Foucault and sexuality, in response to someone else. caveat emptor )

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines ( Read more... )

After just gushing about Roy, now I get to gush about dear Derrida, my Algerian hero.

So, still casually reading my research, searching for a coherent definition of justice to quote. Derrida, with his fondness for source texts, quotes a big long bit out of a book by Nancy. Only to interrupt it, in the middle, with this(He's commenting on when ( Read more... )

So, I was casually reading through some research materials and then I get hit with the quote of a lifetime ( Read more... )