In Homo Sacer, Agamben states that, “[t]here is politics because man is the living being who, in language, separates and opposes himself to his own bare life and, at the same time, maintains himself in relation t […]
Prompt #2:
In “Subversive Bodily Acts,” Butler critiques Kristeva, stating that her theory depends “upon the stability and reproduction of precisely the paternal law that she seeks to displace” (80). And so, rat […]
3. Nagle uses Wayne Brekhus’ work to argue that the unnoticed aspects of life “stand in contrast to things, relationships, identities, or behaviors that are marked,” and that “important truths are lodged within […]
1) In “Your Trash is Someone’s Treasure,” Reno attempts to redeem the practice of scavenging from its low position on hierarchies regarding creative activity. However, he does so in a way that appears to be compl […]
In Spring and All, Williams describes the imagination in terms not-unlike Schopenhauer’s depiction of the Will. In the imagination the author and reader are “locked in a fraternal embrace.” (178) And in its int […]
Reno’s summary of Douglas’ work is accurate but incomplete. It doesn’t address the context-specificity of Douglas’ critique and, in this sense, it fails to deliver an account of the historical value of her wor […]
Yaeger’s attempt to show the displacement of the opposition between nature and culture is consistent with the evidence she gathers in survey of different critiques. For example, on the page following the quote a […]
