CUNY Academic Commons | Christopher Schmidt | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/cschmidt/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher Schmidt. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 b3d756a73aac5e432ab7ed8166828311 Christopher Schmidt created the site The Lit: LaGuardia Community College's Literary and Arts Magazine https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1167789/ Wed, 06 May 2026 19:54:32 -0400 e13ab5c82a6ead65d7cffa143c6e03fe Christopher Schmidt joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/838356/ Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:26:39 -0400 47014b1e0877fea78055b5fa1452f138 Christopher Schmidt changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/619136/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:41:45 -0400 bb50f32377bc5bc04f49b0af20a03b5c Christopher Schmidt's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/619106/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 02:20:42 -0500 edf37fb44199b547e833ea3d7992266a Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=88 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:12:53 -0500 Prompt 1: Does psychoanalytic thought (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, etc.) construe waste as a necessary “other” to psychic health in a consistent way? Or is there a break between Freud and later psychoanalytic th […]

]]> b4d4dcc0a8cea3a7744b0d4e6029dee3 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=83 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:28:46 -0500 Class: reminder there’s no class next Monday. Instead we’ll meet on Wednesday, 2/15 at 6:30.

Here are next week’s prompts. Choose only one of the three prompts below. (And even within each prompt, you do not […]

]]> 8614776e2e49900d9e766930e6eb29e6 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 01:38:08 -0500 b38ec5a4c3739d0a408055311eb8d74a Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=77 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:19:52 -0500 Class,

Just to let you know that I shared the Dropbox folder with all of you after Monday’s class, so if you didn’t get a notice via email, let me know ASAP and I’ll connect you.

Also, I just wanted to alert […]

]]> 7ca84513023e3cc7ba172b3419bce92d Christopher Schmidt created the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/619097/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:22:55 -0500 00997f68720815e45381458c6950ee61 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=59 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:33:30 -0400 Hi class, actually — no blog post required — just focus on your research presentations. But use these questions as a guide to reading and discussion:

Option 1: Sedgwick and Ngai (on p. 166-7, 180, 185-) […]

]]> 1f7c4dbf0b7fa398832117f3ac3746c5 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=55 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:21:41 -0400 Option 1: In very different ways, Herring and Bennett shift the focus to the “lives” of objects and what happens when we treat material objects as though they possessing a social/political meaning. Discuss the […]

]]> f716af5ad01f02910406340413854f4e Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=52 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:25:16 -0400 Open blog prompt 1: The artists’ writings and manifestoes (and the artists described by Foster) all address the subject of waste, but in very different ways. Which did you find most striking, most resonant?

In […]

]]> 53e418ab52f74fcb2dc820a00cb7863f Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=46 Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:11:22 -0400 Class, please email me the prospectus of your final project by Friday, April 1.

These guidelines in writing a prospectus may be useful as a guide. You do not need to follow them to the letter, as they are for a […]

]]> b9fcc4c87d92bd691167c3d5b7dad654 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=44 Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:00:51 -0400 Prompt possibility one: In the readings for this week, how do unspoken ideas about race, class, gender, or some other some other social structure (nation? geographic location? language?) undergird our conceptions […]

]]> e5477e150e9dd2d3880d49465037a88a Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=40 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:03:46 -0400 Choose one  prompt and respond in the comments.

Prompt 1: How do this week’s readings complicate associations between waste (in literal or metaphoric forms) and what Erving Goffman calls “spoiled identity”? Is […]

]]> ef243716e25e3c16814c8e1ed2fd1b73 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=36 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:32:31 -0400 Hi class, my prompts this week are a little more open-ended. Choose whichever questions are most interesting to you in the prompts.

Prompt option 1: Both Nagle and George spend a fair amount of time nar […]

]]> 5b31b75871332bfe276e9078ecf69181 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=28 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:53:58 -0500 Just a quick note about this coming week’s class:

1. We’ll be reading an excerpt from Zygmunt Bauman’s Wasted Lives, which Kevin will be reviewing. It picks up on the economic discussion from last week but is […]

]]> c1269a476a53b98afa49c8348e6e4206 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=24 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:51:31 -0500 Class, for this week, please generate three meaty discussion questions and post them in the comments of this post. Try to generate one discussion question for each article (Reno, Gidwani, Waldrop). To make the […]

]]> f151645763c36230a76ea7addbf0dcc5 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:32:42 -0500 Option 1 — Do a close reading of the following passage from William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All (1923), a major American modernist work. (By close reading, I mean focus in on particular words and phrases an […]

]]> 1c909752b214532efcb9a6dd13a0fc05 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:32:42 -0500 Option 1 — Do a close reading of the following passage from William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All (1923). (By close reading, I mean focus in on particular words and phrases and the way they build a symbolic pa […]

]]> 2dc7396279de7ce3d32adc19f2535880 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Intro to Liberal Studies -- Waste Matters http://wastematters2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:56:17 -0500 Prompt 1: In her article, “The Death of Nature and the Apotheosis of Trash….,” Patricia Yaeger writes:
[A]n old opposition between nature and culture has been displaced in postmodern art by a preoccupation with […]

]]> 2dc7396279de7ce3d32adc19f2535880 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:56:17 -0500 Prompt 1: In her article, “The Death of Nature and the Apotheosis of Trash….,” Patricia Yaeger writes:
[A]n old opposition between nature and culture has been displaced in postmodern art by a preoccupation with […]

]]> fcf16681248087f53e0e288fff05fba4 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:43:55 -0500 The anthropologist Joshua Reno summarizes Douglas thus:
[J]ust because something provokes my disgust does not mean that I can blame inherent qualities that the thing possesses. This was the ultimate […]

]]> 6aaf9cdc76199597412fe87329c8eeac Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=642 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:20:28 -0400 I’m so excited to be teaching LIB200 again in the fall, and to bring in some of the insights from the NEH Technology, Self, Society seminar. I am going to stick with my LIB200 post-apocalyptic fiction and film […]

]]> 1631e58472b2395b8e23db2a35fb0adb Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=325 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:21:26 -0500 As I wrote in my response to the Grau article, I was really intrigued by the history of “Virtual Illusions” that Grau writes about. This is in part because it articulates so well with themes I am already teaching […]

]]> 9c79b8b117214d736758380ae26e885f Christopher Schmidt commented on the post, Question for the November Session:, on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/10/question-for-the-november-session/#comment-21 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:27:33 -0500 I really enjoyed the Oliver Grau reading. I was of course interested in his discussion of the early android/mechanization of the body discussions—especially the discussion of the puppets used during interregnums […]

]]> 59c3f55c1c9642b1d5329b3aabb9c187 Christopher Schmidt wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=193 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:18:11 -0400 I try always to be a generous reader. There is much to be gained by reading with the grain rather than against it, as we are taught to do in academia. However, I found myself frequently exasperated by Sherry […]

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