CUNY Academic Commons | Liz Foley | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/lizfoley/activity/ Activity feed for Liz Foley. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f97303cb3a8f872c4e6373dd5e5b2692 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=792 Wed, 20 May 2015 18:47:22 -0400 I should probably be evaluating this course on the basis of whether or not I learned anything in it that shifted my views about selfhood. Instead I’m going to evaluate it using the secret, selfish criteria by […]

]]> bc5a57d2c11911e9ac19a021c7cc1b5d Liz Foley commented on the post, Hustvedt's Burden, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/26/hustvedts-burden/#comment-206 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:30:29 -0400 Berni, I agree that for anyone who’s already read The Shaking Woman, there’s a slightly recycled feeling to some of the neurological references in The Blazing World: Look, there’s Merleau-Ponty again! And Janet! […]

]]> 4a65377d463e7c996ce47cd31e1361ec Liz Foley commented on the post, Siri Hudsvedt Brickman/Burden, Maskings & Sincerity, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/26/siri-hudsvedt-brickmanburden-maskings-sincerity/#comment-204 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:17:44 -0400 Further support for your “Harriet as Hustvedt’s alter ego” theory is the fact that like Harriet Burden, Hustvedt married someone very visible and successful in her own field of endeavor — Paul Auster, who is […]

]]> 34826f79e8917ff25a66934603096ba5 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=649 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:28:58 -0400 I see this week’s articles and lectures as having similarities or connections, at least on an implicit level, to earlier readings in the course. An interesting question to ask in connection with voice-hearing […]

]]> 20cce79d9d2d49ee3082bfea5b788c7b Liz Foley commented on the post, Post One-Sentence Descriptions of Your Research Projects Here, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/11/post-one-sentence-descriptions-of-your-research-projects-here/#comment-189 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:18:59 -0400 I’ll be writing about an anti-narrative tradition that exists in memoirs by gay men and lesbians, and its possible connection to the historical unavailability of certain literary or cultural narratives (the […]

]]> 23cfb8e558d0ec7a1f301f2b330e9941 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=552 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:55:38 -0400 It’s fitting for us to have read There Was This Goat immediately after Social. If Lieberman’s book is about the neuroscientific foundations of our social selves, then Krog, Mpolweni and Ratele’s book […]

]]> 973d84f2d70ca3952a706eae640aa290 Liz Foley commented on the post, Prompt 2: Project: Addiction and the Self, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/24/prompt-2-project-addiction-and-the-self/#comment-139 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:24:46 -0400 So many of the theories and arguments we’ve read have had implications for drug use (medicinal as well as recreational) and addiction, but since they weren’t the authors’ main focus, those implications have […]

]]> a944dca88ad86de4297d6b6009bb64d5 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=530 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:34:10 -0400 It looks like my topic (practice elevator pitch: “The excluded self and the anti-narrative impulse in the gay memoir”? Needs work) has some overlap with both Berni’s (identification/empathy between the […]

]]> 50a231ad5fc3eea33bd895083ce3a241 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=527 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:27:13 -0400 I was struck by Kevin Killian’s speculation, in the preface to Matias Viegener’s book, that there is something in gay men’s lives that “resists taxonomy in some fundamental manner,” which he supported by citing […]

]]> 118845bc4bbd7322a629b5131b8a799f Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=508 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:55:22 -0400 The original description of the first prompt has mysteriously disappeared, but if memory serves, what I’m responding to is option B, which asked us to explain Lieberman via a Gaipa-style cartoon.

I can’t […]

]]> b72ddb1f14b0066d612fe25747dfb4cb Liz Foley commented on the post, 3 prompts in 1 post, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/23/3-prompts-in-1-post/#comment-131 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:11:24 -0400 The impact of space on self is such an interesting question – there are so many directions in which you could take this. One thing I often wonder is what impact space has on people’s political views. When I’m in […]

]]> 839559525f41a48c55e8b3dcac94fb78 Liz Foley commented on the post, P1) Lieberman & Picking a fight? piggybacking? leapfrogging? Oh my, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/21/p1-lieberman-picking-a-fight-piggybacking-leapfrogging-oh-my/#comment-105 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:52:36 -0400 Yael, was it the passage about the “Hegelian three-step waltz” that you were looking for? (i.e., the thesis stage when scientists believe a discovery will explain everything, followed by the antithesis stage when, […]

]]> 8a15a3c2db8b1017f8f529c959014420 Liz Foley commented on the post, How to lose friends and alienate powerful CUNY faculty, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/15/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-powerful-cuny-faculty/#comment-102 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:03:09 -0400 Professor Tougaw, thanks – I’m really fucking glad to hear that!

]]> 33bc4933b07ef035c648dea4a2d298be Liz Foley commented on the post, How to lose friends and alienate powerful CUNY faculty, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/15/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-powerful-cuny-faculty/#comment-101 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:02:08 -0400 Jen, thanks for this comment and for the link. What Vint Cerf says is such a contrast to the other truism about the Internet we always hear lately – i.e., “Don’t ever send anyone compromising photos of yourself or […]

]]> 66ec2a0f9c04daa929e5d1f352ef969b Liz Foley commented on the post, A random number of nonrandom things about Matias Viegener, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/15/a-random-number-of-nonrandom-things-about-matias-viegener/#comment-97 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:25:51 -0400 Julia, I kind of love that you had an equal and opposite reaction to Viegener’s artsiness from the one I did. I do see how that’s possible, and your reaction is making me examine why I felt so strongly that […]

]]> b452a121fc8cff1fd828917ea9845f5f Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=391 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:24:25 -0400 1.  True fact: I started writing this post on Friday, before Professor Tougaw sent his email about posting in “25 things” format. I had already thought about posting á la Viegener, but had rejected the idea […]

]]> b7032bbd0b36b2056101dc3f5aab29ba Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=389 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:10:10 -0400 Wayne Koestenbaum was the keynote speaker for the English Students’ Association conference a week or so ago; I knew him by reputation and thought about going to see him. But it would have required leaving work […]

]]> 4081e856bdfc61c0161b3bb2ef6dd651 Liz Foley commented on the post, Buckle me, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/01/buckle-me/#comment-70 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:28:00 -0500 Reading your choice bits from Casey makes me feel like she may be a writer who excerpts better than she actually reads. Like you, I was struck by individual sentences and observations, and thought there was some […]

]]> 793ddf82947838a3f9d68f13bb6c0fce Liz Foley commented on the post, Mental health and homeostasis, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/01/mental-health-and-homeostasis/#comment-69 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:06:00 -0500 Nice application of the Damasio concept of homeostasis to a non-Damasio text! Now if we can just figure out whether Albert’s walking is a function of his core self or a self-obliterating gesture on the part of his […]

]]> 29671de76c38ef0c0e892612a9b3f565 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=327 Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:20:05 -0500 1.  What characteristics or elements, in your opinion, does a work need to display in order to be categorized as a novel? Does The Man Who Walked Away — a fictionalized characterization of two real-life […]

]]> b6fb785c0e43b6bb50375b1d5192b652 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=290 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:59:14 -0500 While reading Damasio and Noë, I noticed in passing a couple of details that might not, in the end, have any relevance for their work at large, but that were striking enough to make me wonder.

In his TED talk […]

]]> 7d91a58f3c3349d0515713a4e3976ce0 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=288 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:19:51 -0500 I came away from last week’s discussion of Damasio irritated and frustrated. I felt not only that I had lost my provisional hold on Damasio’s central ideas, but that the only way to regain that provisional […]

]]> 7f094a05a5e802c70c31f156247e123b Liz Foley commented on the post, Consciousness v. Mind, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/15/consciousness-v-mind/#comment-27 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:46:40 -0500 Meditation is a great example of an altered state of consciousness that might complicate Damasio’s categories and terms – and this post is forcing me to get a better handle on those terms myself. I have a feeling […]

]]> f9e4d1cf132a23fe58c7465186469e15 Liz Foley commented on the post, A Mind on its Own, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/16/a-mind-on-its-own/#comment-25 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:14:26 -0500 Berni, I like your point about how evolved human consciousness often seems to break away from its original life-regulating purpose into societal behaviors that paradoxically undermine homeostasis, like war, or […]

]]> d2e4efaa4e003ee70b6f34e6b23848b1 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:22:12 -0500 I had never heard of Antonio Damasio before this course, but we seem to have set up shop in a neighborhood where we can’t avoid bumping into him at every corner. A big chunk of the Eakins chapter is devoted to […]

]]> cb24917919a818849f0fe283ae4b4b79 Liz Foley wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=167 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:09:25 -0500 As a lit person by background, I found Hustvedt’s book to be just the sort of thing I got into liberal studies to read: nonliterary material (albeit, in this case, material with plenty of literary implications) […]

]]> 9e1c141eee7f28d23854c874fe2df512 Liz Foley became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/323101/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:19:48 -0500