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Amtrak: My Weekend Affair
This semester, I spent a lot of time on public transportation. Since September, I have taken 15 Amtrak rides, average train ride 3 hours 20 minutes, for a total of 2 full days on Amtrak, and then there are all the subway rides to and from the train station in two cities, as well as weekly transportation to and from school.
Categories: 2010, The Gnovis Blog
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Love and Marriage in Outsourced
I’m always excited to make room in my TV calendar for the hot new show.
Categories: 2010, The Gnovis Blog
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Consuming the Metaphor II: Art Fairs and Edible Exhibitons
With the ever-present dueling powers of the art world/ art market, how does one find new ways to address commodification and consumerism in the arts? One artist, Jennifer Rubell has devised her solution to the problem: allow your visitor’s to consume your work. Literally.
Categories: 2010, The Gnovis Blog
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In Response to "Are You Hardcore?"
While reading Meredith’s most recent post—“Are You Hardcore?”—I was immediately reminded of my first gnovis entry, about Jon Stewart’s then-upcoming “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. In that post, I posited that the rallies’ respective billings were indicative of each side’s conception of American national identity.
Categories: 2010, The Gnovis Blog
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My Coffee Makes The World A Better Place
In their essay, the “Public Sphere and Experience”, Negt and Kluge first trace the development of a new form of the public sphere that they call the ‘industrialized production public sphere’. This understanding of the possibility of publicity (where publicity refers to the information, views and opinions that actually get heard and circulate within the public sphere) includes a wide range of activities from the internet and social media to personal consumption practices.
Categories: 2010, The Gnovis Blog
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Are You Hardcore?
As a group, the Hard Core exists in defiance of isolation (Turner and West, 421). In Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s Spiral of Silence theory, she classifies those who are hardcore as deviant citizens who are willing to speak out against the majority regardless of context or cost. Though she acknowledges the Hard Core’s existence, Noelle-Neumann considers this group to be an exception to the concept of a societal Spiral of Silence.
Spiral of Silence theory consists of a two-part argument
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Fall 2010 Editor's Note
This fall gnovis put out a call for its first academic year themed issue, Difference. Managing Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and myself felt strongly that our final publication as gnovis Editors should be one that focused specifically on issues of power, marginalization and difference areas that are of great personal significance to us as black women. Aware that there were many graduate students already speaking to these issues in their work, we were excited in September to see what a targeted call for papers would produce. Our authors did not disappoint!
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Representation is tricky work. Part II.
Now, let’s look at the decision to include the filmmaker’s image in a documentary film as not only a matter of what is more faithful to the reality of the situation, but it also as a question of viewer experience.
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Manhood as Commodity: The NBA as Reinforcer of Black Masculinities
Abstract: This essay examines the concept of masculinity as central to competitive televised sport. In post-civil rights America, the image of the Black individual, particularly the Black male, conti
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Representation is tricky work. Part I.
Representation is tricky work.
Category: The Gnovis Blog