CUNY Academic Commons | V.Andrews | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/voca9/activity/ Activity feed for V.Andrews. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f570c950d841556959f6a891a41f79bc V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=784 Wed, 20 May 2015 01:58:00 -0400 While perusing the available MALS classes that fit into my strange work schedule, for the spring semester. I was lucky enough to see this introductory course and instantly found the topic area intriguing.

I […]

]]> e67380a4246705fb6e4dfd068e911ff2 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=705 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:03:06 -0400 Harry’s teenage obsession with Shelley s Frankenstein was played out in her Art…giant Venus, the warm dolls and Anton especially. During their last falling out she actually utters ” I created a monster” I think […]

]]> 1a4f1da945f6671ac02e7778e35839ea V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=637 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:40:11 -0400 The readings and pod casts for this week all speak to a variety of methods of defining, understanding, and treating severe mental illness. Mostly mental illnesses whose chief symptoms are auditory hallucinations. […]

]]> 8ba3747a95208f83d20d76a34e0e88dd V.Andrews commented on the post, There was this Goat: to Understand and Live with Mrs. Konile, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/30/there-was-this-goat-to-understand-and-live-with-mrs-konile/#comment-170 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:35:51 -0400 The entire process of SI is truly an exercise in discipline. There feeling expressed by the translators was that the testimonies they were involved in were emotionally and mentally exhaustive. The effort to be […]

]]> 2d758710c516a5fb2e9623d7fa69dc80 V.Andrews commented on the post, There was this Goat: to Understand and Live with Mrs. Konile, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/30/there-was-this-goat-to-understand-and-live-with-mrs-konile/#comment-169 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:28:09 -0400 Justin,
the passage that you allude to on pages 98-99. I completely connected with. The idea of sameness and strangeness. In our reading by Karen Miller, she continuously alluded to connections between her life […]

]]> 6c64f1a10669a05b5d6b4015dcffe1da V.Andrews commented on the post, Prompt#2, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/23/prompt2/#comment-137 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:55:15 -0400 Yael- I was thinking along the lines of Schizophrenia, and perhaps Depressive disorders.

]]> 0ab2f401560f478429adb5abf6c6f62e V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=473 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:04:02 -0400 I think Yael and I have  a similar aesthetic  and interest in the impact of naming on the self.

]]> 98bf5866f51f2c09d6cd6cf752c06825 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=471 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:01:28 -0400 Through my project I hope to understand how the self is framed by identity/ or labeling. In short how people suffering from physical and mental illness react to having a name for their ailments. Does it help or […]

]]> 36e1c78af668a3ab47bf6d39b25ec7e8 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=462 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:38:11 -0400 A. Find an idea or claim that Lieberman can only make in response to a source. Describe how he uses the source, using Mark Gaipa’s categories.

This is my attempt at parsing out the strategies used by […]

]]> 75b179affa5db47aaf3dc444ff1ae01a V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=445 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:23:51 -0400 Lieberman

I really had a tough time getting into this text.  There were bits that felt so scattered o me and in the chapter conclusions I didn’t see where he pulled his theory together.  In general I understand […]

]]> fbbad885be610bffe95e49684f1dbcea V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=418 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:45:04 -0400 I was born at4:30 am, July 9th
I love driving on the Northern State Parkway much more than the LIE
I had a Narc car.
I love bacon and my Mom’s pork chops, yet I always wanted a mini pot belly pig and the […]

]]> 8b2bbb58b37de6cccf71f4c1a5519010 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=342 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:30:21 -0500 Ian Hacking’s “Mad Travelers”, served to be the skeleton Maud Casey hung her novel on.  I read Casey’s first and now I wonder if I should have read the Hacking chapters first. Casey moved about the minds of her […]

]]> 804fc80feeca7317658f67a4b4d008a9 V.Andrews commented on the post, The Interaction of Brain, Body and Environment, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/23/the-interaction-of-brain-body-and-environment/#comment-45 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:20:22 -0500 I agree that Noe’s framework is more tangible. I think both he and Demasio agree that the environment weighs heavily in the measuring, development and understanding of consciousness. So it’s like the thread […]

]]> a792f474b2f2fba36b29c12c1912b9e9 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=213 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:01:05 -0500 We never discussed the TED lecture by Jill Bolte Taylor so here are some of my thoughts.
I was at first wowed by the description of her stroke. But after Reading  DeMasio and Hustvedt I wonder if Taylor’s […]

]]> f2a50e2927aa5e1e7ef0425c9b91db3b V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=209 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:42:14 -0500 I appreciate DeMasio’s attempt at including the reader by giving  examples and methods of understanding his theories and points. He has a conversational tone, Although he can get quite technical he still brings […]

]]> 958bd72efedf1364e61009ae9f1cfbe7 V.Andrews commented on the post, The "I" is our own., on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/08/the-i-is-our-own/#comment-5 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:38:53 -0500 Hustvedt certainly ends her voyage with acceptance. and I do agree with you that some level of acceptance is the key to happiness. But then again isn’t there an inherent complacency in that? I think some things […]

]]> 6c54ef8056a4b26cff06ab107ad788ec V.Andrews commented on the post, Paul John Eakins;, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/09/paul-john-eakins/#comment-4 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:29:17 -0500 The Demasio’s autobiographical self described in both Eakin and Hustvedt’s works, constantly reevaluates it’s self. And reimages the situation, past, present. But does the constant editing of experience then […]

]]> da87b7b75ca65c0f775767f650c56e55 V.Andrews wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=174 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 03:14:01 -0500 “It is impossible to separate nature and nurture. You cannot isolate a person from the world in which he lives, but more than that, notions of outside and inside, subject and object become entwined.” (P 69 […]

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