CUNY Academic Commons | Heather Wright | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/hwright/activity/ Activity feed for Heather Wright. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 86521152ea5bbecc16e2388c2a6748a0 Heather Wright joined the group Post-Election Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/448466/ Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:23:31 -0500 097660f6c5bf021029b8a8d10e39602f Heather Wright 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-296 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 17:07:53 -0400 I found the excerpts from Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter so captivating that I will probably read more of the book this summer. Bennett’s aim “to highlight what is typically cast in the shadow: the material agency […]

]]> 8233a48f421961be87e4b0a5de906c8f Heather Wright 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-237 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:05:28 -0400 Of all the readings this week, I found Foster’s pieces the most captivating. Specifically, the section “The Artifice of Abjection” in “The Return of the Real.” Foster writes clearly, concisely, and simply about […]

]]> a3e9b192d405d4187763c56104169c9d Heather Wright 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-133 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:52:38 -0400 Prompt 3

I find the linking of waste and fat in Divinity: A Dossier convincing, though I do wish that Sedgwick and Moon had spent more time on the comparison. Both authors effectively ground the link with […]

]]> 04c62c8e43d503c59d5d764bdfc0b8e3 Heather Wright commented on the post, Week 7 -- journalism and ethnography, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/15/week-7-journalism-and-ethnography/#comment-113 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:57:41 -0400 Prompt #4

In Trashed, Derf Backderf refers to the dump as “Hell on Earth,” his protagonist noting that “it’s designed so you can’t see it from outside…so the full horror of [the] place isn’t known” (105). […]

]]> 5c28869970b60fbc2a6506bbfd7f44e1 Heather Wright 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-65 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:04:59 -0500 1) In “Your Trash is Someone’s Treasure: The Politics of Value at a Michigan Landfill,” Joshua Reno summarizes the adoption of “sanitary landfills” in the 1950s. Reno emphasizes the role such landfills play in k […]

]]> b3cba96f080c3fdb4ed506017907f3ab Heather Wright commented on the post, Week 4 blog prompt -- Transatlantic Modernism, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/22/week-4-blog-prompt-transatlantic-modernism/#comment-43 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:24:42 -0500 In this poem, Williams illustrates his mature aesthetic. For Williams, the poet, “the man of imagination,” must sift through wasteful, empty “words and shapes” in order to create art that is both efficient and ear […]

]]> f81f676f96a045138043342a267464fc Heather Wright 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-29 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:17:16 -0500 Reno’s summary of Purity and Danger seems accurate. For Douglas, things are deemed waste only in relation to culturally specific social systems: “Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a s […]

]]> 2575d4547f3f1828948b0c6d90430e80 Heather Wright's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/409490/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:59:14 -0400 313c5d9e353117912f3d66975e0a870c Heather Wright changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/409449/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:26:01 -0400 703c8df95a30209b4df2523da8f71c22 Heather Wright became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/409447/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:18:57 -0400