CUNY Academic Commons | Andrew DiDonato | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/andrewdidonato/activity/ Activity feed for Andrew DiDonato. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f767b98b139cb9b46d532de296608db6 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 11 -- Materiality and Affect 1, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/04/15/week-11-materiality-and-affect-1/#comment-295 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:50:15 -0400 Throughout “Vibrant Matter”, Jane Bennett talks about vitality which she defines as “the capacity of things- edibles, commodities, storms, metals- not only to impede or block the will and designs of humans, but a […]

]]> 005c205f207b5bd2290f14940f547c3a Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 11 - Art and Art History, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/04/09/week-11-art-and-art-history/#comment-236 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:39:35 -0400 Artist Robert Smithson’s writing about his photography in “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey” reminds me of several of the readings about ruins, in particular Andreas Huyssen and Anik Fournier. I rem […]

]]> 22d61df802cc9e9eb1bcd03dacaf0896 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 10 -- Ecology, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/25/week-10-ecology/#comment-190 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:14:57 -0400 Open Ended Prompt

William Cronin’s statements in “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” feel bold, but surprisingly he does seem to back them up convincingly. The idea that he’s […]

]]> 767858f28dfa2529354fe7d4188bf2f1 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 8 -- waste and stigma: race, gender, sex, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/23/week-8-waste-and-stigma-race-gender-sex/#comment-134 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:12:01 -0400 Prompt 3:

I find Sedgwick and Moon’s linking of waste and fat to be somewhat convincing. Particularly in how they pull the examples of bodies as waste and waste as food from their explanation of John W […]

]]> 22b966259664bbf3f6784a5ee1e0c553 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 7 -- journalism and ethnography, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/15/week-7-journalism-and-ethnography/#comment-110 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:21:12 -0400 Prompt 2:

Margaret Nagle’s use of academic theorists in her writing in “Garbage Faeries” supports her points by helping to dramatize or sensationalize (although those words might have too strong of a conno […]

]]> e4e61960edd82a84103097d4bcb3d9f7 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 6 blog prompt and note on readings, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/06/week-6-blog-prompt-and-note-on-readings/#comment-83 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:23:27 -0500 Prompt 2:

Andreas Huyssen’s article raises some interesting questions about how nostalgia goes against modernity by putting progress at risk, how longing and critical thinking are not opposed to one another and […]

]]> b9d10d1912058280f1a2820c2992506e Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 5 -- economies of waste and recycling, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/02/week-5-economies-of-waste-and-recycling/#comment-63 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:26:45 -0500 Gidwani states in Thesis 3 that “at certain political moments, projects of capitalist value come to view commons as as an impediment and construct it as “waste,” weighted down by the double pejorative, moral […]

]]> 4b00f76cab65cfc773aafc08e5960967 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Week 4 blog prompt -- Transatlantic Modernism, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/22/week-4-blog-prompt-transatlantic-modernism/#comment-40 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:39:08 -0500 As pointed out by Walter Benjamin, Baudelaire’s European modernist views of waste and artistic composition are mirrored by the ragpicker from his poem “The Ragpicker’s Wine”. “The poet finds the refuse of societ […]

]]> dcad22251b32e70d898e0a198f5a5228 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Blog response for week 3 (Feb. 18) -- Douglas, Kristeva, Freud, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-3-feb-18-douglas-kristeva-freud/#comment-19 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:22:49 -0500 I do agree with Reno’s summary of Douglas. Reno feels that Douglas is saying that things are viewed as pollutants because of their social classification and humans who define waste or pollutants as such, then s […]

]]> 17397abf241bc451721186639d1effe0 Andrew DiDonato commented on the post, Blog response for week 2 (Feb. 11) -- general introductions to waste, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-2-feb-11-general-introductions-to-waste/#comment-10 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:21:22 -0500 I make sense of Yaeger’s piece by thinking of how industrial revolutions and technological advancements have changed society and that accounts for why trash has replaced nature in many modern works of art. I’m int […]

]]> baf90461ed1ecea1372250a8b2a52440 Andrew DiDonato became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426285/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:36:28 -0500