CUNY Academic Commons | Amber Chiac | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/amchia/activity/ Activity feed for Amber Chiac. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2e16dc8e988c8f6d0a5939176a6d661e Amber Chiac commented on the post, Siri Hudsvedt Brickman/Burden, Maskings & Sincerity, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/26/siri-hudsvedt-brickmanburden-maskings-sincerity/#comment-203 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:16:03 -0400 Yes I noticed it & I mentioned it in my blog post but looking back on that page, I got confused so that part of my post didn’t really make sense. I fixed it… I think! Haha.

Hustvedt, like Harriet is quite the […]

]]> fb017163211f4e5c17d2ee896a906155 Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=681 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:54:15 -0400 Harriet as Hustvedt’s Alter Ego 

I agree with Berni that “I hear in each of the character’s writings, Hustvedt’s voice talking to me.” While reading The Blazing World, it also occurred to me that Harriet might […]

]]> ee0acb0026da3cc7fc31e23444657acb Amber Chiac commented on the post, Emily Dickinson, “The First Day’s Night Had Come” (c. 1862), on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/18/emily-dickinson-the-first-days-night-had-come-c-1862/#comment-200 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:10:52 -0400 What a perfect poem to go with our readings today.

I love that she pairs horror with giggles and capitalizes the word “One” and says “a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs.” I think she is emphasizing the […]

]]> 008027d490586a77ca02300cd940acfc Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=562 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:42:03 -0400 After reading a few pages of this text, I thought the authors must have titled the book “There Was This Goat” because of the phrase’s randomness. I thought it indicated the unknowability of Mrs. Konile’s story. On […]

]]> 92d15f06170fe0870571f7eaf57785e3 Amber Chiac commented on the post, Prompt 2, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/24/prompt-2-2/#comment-147 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:27:33 -0400 Ooops Sorry! I wrote that comment before I noticed your comment to my project post. I’m a little intimidated by the idea of doing a performance myself haha but I love the idea of analyzing several of his pieces […]

]]> b9caf8eb4722635b756e091a919a8928 Amber Chiac commented on the post, Prompt 2, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/24/prompt-2-2/#comment-146 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:19:00 -0400 Hi Julia,

Just a quick note to say that I love your idea!! I’m writing about Stelarc and also wish to depict the self as “multiplicitous, out of reach, fractured.” You say you also plan to depict the self as […]

]]> 3720a722d5b1a13f0e5f8c5da8b127fe Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=497 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:28:46 -0400 Discussion Questions for Social:

1) Lieberman believes we are “wired together” for an intensely social existence. He says: “evolution moves us toward interdependence” and this is a “design feature, not flaw” […]

]]> b62cdd06d230c92f28f50adc623489ef Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=494 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:21:56 -0400 I’ve decided to do my project on the performance artist Stelarc. I plan to do a multi-media project (thanks for the advice Prof Tougaw!) I think a multi-media approach will effectively embody my thesis/project […]

]]> 20eab37cb439069a30fac5ffaa24d2cf Amber Chiac commented on the post, Prompt 1: C, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/23/prompt-1-c-2/#comment-120 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:10:53 -0400 Answering Questions

David, I agree it is amusing that blue was once associated with femininity and pink with masculinity. A potential explanation for this is that the color red was traditionally associated […]

]]> 03b987d75b151cebbbd03c6a76bc49cd Amber Chiac commented on the post, 25 Random Things, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/15/25-random-things/#comment-92 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:47:36 -0400 Thanks for the comments Yael. I struggled writing the list so I really appreciate the feedback. I also really enjoyed your list. I love when you incessantly draw attention to the inevitability of prejudice. Its […]

]]> efea9b34238f13f7c2f5f75827b963ee Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=393 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:32:53 -0400 1) I don’t want to be any more real than one of Virginia Woolf’s fertile facts.

2) Scientists are studying the intelligent movement of insects to design miniature camera-robots to crawl around inside our […]

]]> 2b8787551ae138a37b0e0cfc2c5fd565 Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=277 Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:57:45 -0500 Damasio believes consciousness can be found in the brain stem and therefore that the outside world is largely determined by the brain. Noe believes consciousness is largely found outside of the brain (holistic and […]

]]> 6629a29c60d0a4442f1601634ae3cc61 Amber Chiac commented on the post, Consciousness v. Mind, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/15/consciousness-v-mind/#comment-36 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:24:06 -0500 This question really fascinates me. As both a dedicated yogi and a graduate of a women and gender studies program, it’s been a struggle for me to rectify the feminist insistence on embodiment and the yogic ideal […]

]]> 635c4771dfee6b3011c25b6ecfda08af Amber Chiac commented on the post, Things To Think About, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/16/things-to-think-about/#comment-35 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:17:21 -0500 I think the reason Damasio uses a “framework” is because he does not want to define or categorize consciousness in an absolute or monolithic way. Nevertheless, I think he believes consciousness is an evolutionary […]

]]> 20ebbfd1732908a7b463e2c3cb5799b0 Amber Chiac commented on the post, Some thoughts on The Shaking Woman, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/08/some-thoughts-on-the-shaking-woman/#comment-3 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:10:10 -0500 Hi Mari,

Thanks for the comment!

Remember a few years ago when Harvard awarded dr. Richwine a doctorate for his dissertation that argued Latino immigrants are less intelligent than white Americans? I […]

]]> 3cf627a36a3db1648e2cb45c4881ce79 Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=176 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 04:19:00 -0500 Since finishing The Shaking Woman, my mind has been spinning in the best possible kind of way. Hustvedt sheds light on some very murky and interesting issues. While her work is non-conclusive, it certainly […]

]]> c3d525211a397daf11dc98da3e86aa7b Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site Enlightenment Utopias, Fall 2014 http://enlightenmentutopias.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=204 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:39:13 -0500 1) The women of Millennium Hall are obsessed with cleanliness, purity and virtue. The women’s clothes are described as having “the same neatness and the same “cleanliness.” The girls’ clothes are described as […]

]]> 16b412652066bc186016f4fa70e28faa Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site Enlightenment Utopias, Fall 2014 http://enlightenmentutopias.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=150 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:44:41 -0400 “There must always be a certain effect of hardness and thinness about Utopian speculation. Their common fault is to be comprehensively jejune. That which is the blood and warmth and reality of life is largely […]

]]> 0064b3c6c1107d967233706fd3cf1b89 Amber Chiac wrote a new post on the site Enlightenment Utopias, Fall 2014 http://enlightenmentutopias.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=117 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:38:29 -0400 Secondary Source:

Armintor, Deborah N. “The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47.3 (2007): 619-640. Web. […]

]]> f2010ad4d8a89daed163822d0ebc7e5b Amber Chiac became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/301674/ Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:29:36 -0400