CUNY Academic Commons | John Giunta | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jgiunta/activity/ Activity feed for John Giunta. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 79f53fb95e4fb3792d7f9a86b6938366 John Giunta commented on the post, Killing time, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/03/killing-time/#comment-814 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:46:57 -0500 A lot to digest, but certainly very interesting. I was wondering what you think about video game tropes or video game-esque narratives informing other narrative genres (novels and films with what we can identify […]

]]> 64f24f108b471b8b0e79635596ab5f3c John Giunta commented on the post, Whistling Chimpanzees in baggy overalls, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/03/whistling-chimpanzees-in-baggy-overalls/#comment-802 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 03:29:44 -0500 Cooper utilized some really interesting language to described the relationship between Jim and “the bear” avatar – a kind of oddly organic bond akin to changing skins, putting on a new set of limbs – these […]

]]> 66fa1c6576ea0945e61f96ef4d8c5a9a John Giunta commented on the post, The Silence of the Hop-Scotchers, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/15/the-silence-of-the-hop-scotchers/#comment-454 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:27:38 -0500 http://www.parorobots.com/video.asp
I want one.


Strains of Turkel’s “perfect storm” – I wonder what the ultimate message behind Phoenix’s character’s relationship […]

]]> b9029a8b3c3213282c3e06d43e4e7a93 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/15/the-silence-of-the-hop-scotchers/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:16:10 -0500 I’m only about halfway into Turkel (I haven’t read chapter 12 yet) but I find myself having a hard time reconciling my experience with what she’s saying. For me, this distance is not an issue of accuracy, but of […]

]]> 9ec6c3983c1ffdc57935a1fb60fd3f43 John Giunta commented on the post, Math is something you do, not who you are..., on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/12/math-is-something-you-do-not-who-you-are/#comment-403 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:38:12 -0500 I think this notion of a Quantifiable Self is appropriately weird – chopping up self-ness into lots of little numbers and statistics – and you are voicing a similar feeling I experienced when reading/watching […]

]]> 3f39d20fcccacebef181cdf1d79a6387 John Giunta commented on the post, Quantified Selfies, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/12/quantified-selfies/#comment-393 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:44:32 -0500 We (still) tend to draw distinct lines between our technology and our selves (bodies, brains, floating consciousnesses, etc.) even as we become more absorbed in, reliant on, and, in some of the examples provided […]

]]> ff60398144eee3bd638a874c89e5a6e3 John Giunta commented on the post, Viegener, and the Unabashed Narcissim of Facebook, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/04/viegener-and-the-unabashed-narcissim-of-facebook/#comment-319 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:07:15 -0500 Poll question: I’ve read three things that mention Kathy Acker in the last week (Neil Gaiman, an article about cyberpunk, and this, the Viegener), and a preliminary wikipedia search reveals she’s a writer/artist/a […]

]]> 25d5171f3631f8c7edddd691ed2f4593 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/04/viegener-and-the-unabashed-narcissim-of-facebook/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:04:56 -0500 “Everyday I try to say something new, yet still random. And every day I have less to say. I tire of facts. I long for fiction.” #24, lviii

“Random”, in my understanding, is somewhat related to “coincidence”, […]

]]> 668380741705927b461e5fe4623744ad John Giunta commented on the post, 25 (not so random) Reflections of Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me Too (and me!), on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/29/25-not-so-random-reflections-of-matias-viegeners-2500-random-things-about-me-too-and-me/#comment-287 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:53 -0400 I’m reading Viegener for next week too and there’s something great about it that I can’t quite articulate – something that corresponds with my experience and certainly with social networking, which seems so […]

]]> b583ca5c40fc1c8e8080f4174bd9d6ec John Giunta commented on the post, Disabled Representations, TED Talks, More, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/21/disabled-representations-ted-talks-more/#comment-210 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 04:46:58 -0400 Jason – I’d definitely be interested in hearing/reading more about “sentimental education”, as it’s a concept I’m wholly unaware of – can you recommend any specific books or articles?

]]> c859fd2d31b9c2572da9918c662b1b86 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/21/disabled-representations-ted-talks-more/ Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:34:53 -0400 Disability Studies interests me for two related reasons: First off, there is a kind of large-scale pop culture awareness of a myriad of serious physical/mental disabilities, as displayed for wide audiences in […]

]]> ba0968f3fb2e764b3f38fab7c2399f41 John Giunta changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/231233/ Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:01:18 -0400 3aa12c02acf13e9a094442db74c6cdf3 John Giunta joined the group Possible Worlds, Alternative Futures: Utopianism in Theory and Practice https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/231232/ Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:58:27 -0400 da5f017c6a4324eaf945adc7e0b72186 John Giunta commented on the post, Lowboy, McCarthy-Jones, Foucault, Hustvedt (with undertones of Noe)...too much coffee, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/16/lowboy-mccarthy-foucault-hustvedt-too-much-coffee/#comment-153 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:45:30 -0400 Good catch with the Ali/Rufus split, I thought that was a particularly challenging section in which our faith in Detective Lateef’s sanity is being questioned – but what did you make of Lateef’s previous […]

]]> a4eaf23f45101daac0d3a5f6983354b1 John Giunta commented on the post, Wray & McCarthy-Jones, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/16/wray-mccarthy-jones/#comment-152 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:38:34 -0400 My experience of reading Lowboy went a bit differently – I felt like Lowboy’s behavior on the subway cars, his conversations and outbursts, and the reaction from the “normal” train-riders did contain some kind of […]

]]> dd59cc6bc03dc32afc322b67aef20c38 John Giunta commented on the post, Climate Crisis, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/14/climate-crisis/#comment-147 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:54:37 -0400 I was also wondering about how we read Dutchman and Covington/Rafa in relation to Lowboy (are they “real”, are they heard-voices?) but I think then that this question needs to be followed through to its next […]

]]> 30c1055e9d4108876ea873f916c49f60 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/07/fun-home-and-personal-myths/ Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:50:51 -0400 I think Bechdel really illustrates (puns) Macadams’ idea of the personal myth in Fun Home, establishing the literal Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a recurring theme throughout both Alison’s life and as an […]

]]> 577c7bfd07343eb75b9059ebac100d88 John Giunta commented on the post, Option #2, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/23/option-2/#comment-45 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:04:32 -0400 Wait, can we just assign “Blade Runner” as required viewing? Replicant-hunter “Rick Deckard” is a homophone for “Rene Descartes”, and there’s tons more we can relate from what we’ve read so far to this!!!

]]> bdf14970daf58cc10ed1de385ce9dd6f John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/23/option-2/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:02:25 -0400 I liked the format of this week’s video lecture, as it wasn’t a lecture at all, but a kind of interview-conversation-debate between Noë and the neurophysiologist, and it lead right into Out of Our Heads, with Noë […]

]]> 4e5bc25a94870268d819ce467990e126 John Giunta commented on the post, Consciously Minded Regulation , on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/15/consciously-minded-regulation/#comment-36 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:28:08 -0400 Oh, I can see your point Mr. Wagner. My confusion comes more from what appear to be Damasio’s big leaps in his outline of evolutionary relations. How does the protoself make the jump to self? I can follow his […]

]]> 0f9ffd5a1beb25dfbc35feee5fab445f John Giunta commented on the post, Damasio and Blindness, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/17/damasio-and-blindness/#comment-35 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:22:50 -0400 I think phantom limb syndrome is fascinating, but had never heard of Ramachandran, so thanks! Does Damasio account for this kind of false body map?

]]> 32ee8da0302537084660e6558f1c8b72 John Giunta commented on the post, Damasio and Blindness, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/17/damasio-and-blindness/#comment-34 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:20:00 -0400 Damasio does touch on sound maps, and goes quite a bit on into the structure of the ear, which I found interesting, but even there it did seem to me that he never specifically addresses sound maps as fully […]

]]> 2411bbd9a95621d2f5933ced50244673 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/17/damasio-and-blindness/ Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:24:32 -0400 Hey, sorry, not supposed to comment this week but going ahead anyway because I wonder what people think and I haven’t seen it come up yet. Yanno how Lacan’s mirror stage of infancy gets somewhat undermined by […]

]]> b341ef2c345f0831390fc39be5da9f8c John Giunta commented on the post, Consciously Minded Regulation , on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/15/consciously-minded-regulation/#comment-25 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:04:10 -0400 It’s funny, I’ve been having a tough time swallowing Damasio’s concept of the protoself, and I’m wondering if anyone else finds his hypotheses about this primitive consciousness problematic. In the first chapter […]

]]> 3a73f782b33d1d565e4997d723677b90 John Giunta commented on the post, "The Shaking Woman" and assumptions of self hood, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/10/the-shaking-woman-and-assumptions-of-self-hood/#comment-14 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:41:31 -0400 Truly fascinating, I think the failure of language is something worth talking about (no pun intended) – I would agree with you and Hustvedt’s findings that no explanation or theory or definition is completely, […]

]]> e45976d1117ceb37fec911659e1f62c4 John Giunta commented on the post, Siri Hustvedt's "The Shaking Woman" and Life Writing, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/09/siri-hustvedts-the-shaking-woman-and-life-writing/#comment-4 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:21:18 -0400 I hadn’t even thought of art as auto-biographical, but that’s a rilly good example! I’m sure we will encounter some thinker or author who locates self-hood in relation to artistic expression along this course […]

]]> e462f65e257e3c988395b664bfb11c36 John Giunta wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/09/siri-hustvedts-the-shaking-woman-and-life-writing/ Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:31:53 -0400 The back-cover of my copy of Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves displays a review that contains the phrase “odyssey of discovery”, and because I am one of those people who will read the back […]

]]> f5213273e995c1d69ef21eb6974b15e6 John Giunta became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/215519/ Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:08:57 -0400