It is obviously very clear that you are intent on fucking if I suddenly hear loud music boom through the walls at 1:20am on a non-weekend night. Why not cut this bullshit and just let the moans flow?
I mean, really.
PS: there is no need to bitch at each other once sex is over.
February 10, 2005
Senior Seminar
Yongho Kim
Assignment: Write a tight one or two-page summary of your final paper topic. Explain what work has already been done and what remains to be done in this course. Be specific in explaining what remains to be done. For example, if you have already gathered data on a study abroad and you now need to process that data, explain how you will do so. If you have already processed it but feel that you need a better theoretical context and understanding of the literature, explain what you will be using and where you will find these materials.
For my final project, I’ll improve upon the paper The Zen of Motorcycling: Gold Wing Road Riders and their Social Relations which I wrote for the ethnographic interviewing class in the Fall of 2004. The paper examines the weekly activities of the members of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRRA) and makes the argument that the association is a site of social interaction where relations are mediated through objects and the values therein embedded, such as the motorcycles themselves, its accessories and accents, and so forth.
I want to show the product to prospective employers, especialy to highlight how I can analyze social structures (however that might be intepreted on the employer’s side.)
The paper quality is poor, so it needs a major overhaul in argument structure and presentation of research materials (use of informant quotes and domains/paradigms)
For the paper, I have done six interviews (the third one was left half-transcribed) and some internet research on what the GWRRA’s website says about the organization’s history. (And how the organization presents itself to its members and prospective members, in lieu of the lack of the paper version of the newsletter). I need to work again through the raw material and squeeze more domain structures that help make the point that social relations are indeed mediated through objects.
At the suggestion of professor Guneratne, I have looked up references to Irving Goffman’s theory of staged performance theory, but have failed to incorporate it with the paper’s argument. I plan to search for Goffman’s theory and derivatives to find a previous example of an ethnography with a similar focus.
The raw materials are also a bit lacking. I might do one or two extra interviews in early March with a second informant on what goes on in different GWRRA activities (given the great variety of activites, I have only covered the major few events. Also, my informant did not have first hand knowledge of some recent trends in GWRRA event organizing.)
so, i’m using Stephen’s referrer log at http://downes.ca/referrers.htm
and this makes its way to the referrer page:
and that unblurred refferrer links to this address
www5.addfreestats.com/cgi-bin/showuni6.cgi
now what.
AFLO quote of the day:
U.C.L.A. – University of Caucasians Lost in Asia
(commenting to my pointing out of the difference in perceptions between what “public” and “private” in higher ed imply outside and inside the U.S., citing UCLA as the prime example of what a “good” college in the U.S. is for koreans in Chile (given that it is a public university)
mentioning the kuru
horizontal and vertical extent
case study
TSE
rasminss spongeform encaphelopathie
infection sickness
mad cow deasease is a kind of TSe
BSE -> food, cattle carcasses
preventing
BSE agent become more virulent as it crossed species barriers
+ mathemin homozygots wild game feasting
hepatitis -> anonymous sex
college campuses: high mobility
so andrè carrington is coming to mac on the af-am conference, if i heard it well in class!
so tawanda was saying back in spring:
you won’t bring him NOW. the school better pay him some heavy bucks if you plan on bringing a NYU scholar, after messing with him while being an undegrad.
i wonder, though? with AMS being the main sponsor?
will rosenberg try to pay off back to the “colored camp”, so to say, in admin speech, after we (they?) maintained a neutral stand? what’s the deal with joi? with nick? do they talk to each other?
err.
too much speculating.
the reason, it just occured to me, that i often refrain from expressing ideas on paper (or blogs) and instead keep on developing them – this is not strictly limited to papers/essays but extends to random thoughts as well – is because i recognize that once it is written/posted, it is intended to be read by an audience of some form. if no one is going to read it, then i will read it; that counts. insofar as i deal with often contradictory ideas within my head, i can let them sit there for a while and develop in their own dynamic intertextuality, add on new experiences and external text-producers, read, talk about it with other people, and when i feel like it’s ready to cum (uhuh, few metaphors touch upon heteronormative sensibilities better), i write some. a draft.
because once on paper, althought there may be many ways of intepreting it, for each individual instance of interpretation, e.g. one reader, or me myself re-reading it (because i don’t usually read my own papers more than once, once they are done) and despite all what weatherford claims thoughts in your head are just that, thoughts, unless you write them down or act upon it, it’s imperative to let them stir so that they may make sense with me to start with.
so there.
AMST394-11 Freedom Movements. Class notes, Feb 7
music played: Mbongan Nugema.
how to find articles on Safundi, which spans a broader spectrum of research done on sa www.safundi.com/members/login.asp . rachleff )the dept?) purchased a semester-long access for the whole class. username: school, pass: here
will announced first diversity weekend meeting. thursday 9pm, cc215
african american studies conference. rachleff: don’t need to go to all of them, but that would be nice. write something creative and tie it together with the class materials.
Will: issues of working middle class and racial representation
Peter: agreed, but the two issues not related causally.
Zach: capitalism creates racial caegories by need (black athletes)
ref: Augusto Bael (theater of the oppressed)
church (ft Spike lee)
is the movie a self-criticism?
basketball
born black in SA is being political
Alex F: careful in process of reclamation
creation of representation
appropriation -> make money
how to connect material culture
know to resist
eric la black minstrelsy-> post industrialization
white working class, use of slavery as a reference point
“at least I’m not a slave”
strong denial — (needs) –> reinforcement of perfoming the other
30’s Dubios wrote a bio of John Brown
20th C Baudeville & Broadway, black people playing minstrelsy
Chapelle Show
Lily L: hegemony: marginalize people’s participation, compromise peronsal for greater goals
Zach: even in the black communities it is a tbaoo to go into “culture” fields
Alex Rubinstein: structures of white supremacy alienate communties
Alex F: (disagrees) families follow capital regardless
Tennis Guy
AFLO: but the colored/white divide in “artists”?
E. hist.
mau mau
Rachel: david wolpes & spike lee
Alessandra: Mandela on oppressive systems cannot be reformed, nikey commercials
women not part of movements
Peter: watch 4 girls, susan rose park
AFLO: Delacroix assisted the process of PAC criticizing the ANC
Will: p.20, Mau Mau reactionary masculinity women burning passes
wolpe -> single women in towns
Eugene Debs: sick Salvatore with Debs Hopes to go back what people react
E. Hutchinson: Mandela is in prison, black consciousness -> young people come to him
Rachel: Mandela’s position as a listener, heoized, did the PAC leave out of will or were they expelled from the movements?
Alex Rubinstein: 1 million dollar corruption case, ANC is sinking
Peter: last week we agreed capitalism has a role in white supremacy, has anyone challenged that?
Camilo paris: b link,
Patrick Bond is a white american who came to south africa for a citizenship
Alex Rubinstein: W-A-R? Move your stretch
journalist’s account in SA
different exp
need for violent protest
how the black leadership was constructed intot the white government (homelands)
use capital to alienate people
Rachel: skilled/unskilled divide out of question in south africa
P: in the 70’s two big issues: racism and vietnam. one group said those were “mistakes”
issue: to understand the “mistakes” as integral part of the U.S. society
P: what do we mean by “liberal”? approach to capitalism/racism
Jared: National Liberation as a paradox
Nicole: alternate systems. masculinity as part of a package
Roladn McKay: Frederickson, Herrenvolk Democracy
Alyssa: p.121 dialectical materialism, but Mandela doesn’t take on that anymore further in his actions
WIll Clarke: National liberation, communist party black belt
nation of islam in the ’30s.
P: Mandela’s operating from a minority status. Pan-African nationalism
Will: inside/outside the system. quote: within the system is the hierarchies of competition
same situation in the u.s. capitalism
malaysia
too much crime, too much work ethic
adanise, chinese
(are stus less dev?)
both movements from challenging capitalism
are they engaging capitalism?
inefficacy
oft overlooked
shana, economic and social agency
sam great to move “up” sustains capitalism
safety/ scarcity
self-sufficiency
eti lewis “home sphere” (church)
Julia: Tarzan Ujama, 1950-60s
no cognitive diffence between “reform” and “revolution”
Sophie: Mandela’s otrobro not solely as reflection -> intended to soothe allies
compassionate to oppressor (prison guard)
R1 jaito: runs the workshop
PR: tip
def what is a liberal via park?
cart transcripts -> only where to talk + nachie
Nkrumah, Lumumba,
Condi says: “I think we have to view, at this point, the government of Venezuela as a negative force in the region” foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146472,00.html
LatinoPundit wonders: “I can’t decide.” latinopundit.com/latino/archives/002146.html
I think: The Man is trying to gather Star Wars fandom support!
February 4, 2005
To all members of the Macalester Community, I’m writing to inform you of some changes that you may have already noticed within our community. Through my tenure as president here, I have attempted to present myself as a straight talker, I hope that this letter will be understood as an example of my ongoing commitment to open dialogue and civic discourse.
You are all probably aware of some changes we’ve had to make in the college’s admissions policies in order to preserve Macalester’s financial stability in these trying economic times. Unfortunately, the end of need-blind admissions is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Effective immediately, Spring 2005 classes are being postponed indefinitely due to diversion of funds to (what we hoped would be) more lucrative endeavors. In the interest of full disclosure, I’d like to offer the community several examples of where, upon abandoning what was an already shaky commitment to liberal ideals in higher education, we’ve found it appropriate to place our funds:
My salary: According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the total compensation received by my predecessor was $363,117. I can only imagine I earn more than this, given basic cost-of-living increases; I will disclose this salary pending computation by Danny Kaplan. I’m just an English major; I can’t count that high.
My house, which was purchased for me at an untold cost by the college last summer. You’ve probably seen it, sitting on the comer of Summit and Fry, though I imagine few have you have actually been in it – in the cutthroat environment of college fundraising, only the highrollers get that privilege. In fact, it’s a college policy that the only non-millionaires allowed in the house are the caterers and other house servants, who frankly could never make enough money to compensate for the abuse heaped upon them by my wife Carol. In any event, the house was fully renovated in the past year (the roof alone cost over $200,000), and includes a large yard and a three-car garage, which gives me space for storage, accommodating my family’s unused belongings nicely around our luxury SUVs. According to David “Wheaton, one of the benefits of the house, besides the fact that it is enormous, is that it “provides more flexibility for housing a president’s family.” Trust me – my wife and I have needs you can’t even begin to understand.
Those large blow-up dolls outside my inaugural party last spnng. I can’t explain their purpose either, except to say that they are the marker of a high-class institution. You may notice that size seems to be a common thread in my tenure at this institution – big salary, big house, big phallic symbols outside the Campus Center – but I assure you I am not in anyway overcompensating for personal insecurities. In conclusion, I apologize for any financial missteps that may have been taken by me or any other such overcompensated (that is, overpaid) college administrator. To assuage your concerns, let me assure you that Danny Kaplan is designing a plan to get the college running again; our target time for this is Fall 2005. Once classes restart, you may notice some subtle changes in classroom demographics and, commensurate with this, classroom dynamics. Increasingly, Macalester is being populated by the kinds of pnvate- school East Coast children of wealth (such as myself) who are your least favorite classroom co-constituents, dominating discussion to the detriment of others in the room not of similarly privileged backgrounds. By the time classes start again, these students will be the only ones talking, because they’ll comprise the bulk of the class more than they already do. The important distinction will be that not only do they think they own the world, they now have full institutional support behind them. As a college, Macalester has made a strong statement in favor of the entrenchment of class privilege. They have been emboldened; you have been silenced.
Lastly, my administration is in the planning stages for a new fundraising organization we intend to call the Rosenburglars; the purpose of this committee will be to raise money that will go straight into my own bank account. Once I have a sufficient amount, I intend to try to use it to buy back my soul.
Your devoted President,
Brian Brian Rosenberg
handout:
http://wiki.adelantemac.org/Anthropology_in_a_Nutshell
british don’t like “culture” -> colonial mission, maintaining
french -> things inside the head, rationalism
foucault, levi strats -> like comets! they come and go
LTAM new anthro, no impact
school training is system-adaptive,
thoughts extensions
notes on the handout:
culture -> cultivate
ethnography=cultural anthro
ethnology=comparative cross-cultural study of human cultures
fight against racism: culture over race, public sphere
aurora levins morales talk, 12:00pm
sense of history -> resistance
destruction of memory -> subjugation (makes oppressedness seem like a natural aspect of the peoples lives)
self as an counterexample “adwomenster (sp)”
Nelson Myers 1898, spanish war, great plains, arabian peninsula, immigrants
Puerto Rico, intermediaries, the work of women, produce ginger, used for the working class (ginger bread) in Shakespeare’s England
tiva arriving out of africa -> geographical/racial?
Railroad women
labor movement, struggles as anyone else
antiwar activist
67 left PR
denied tenure in UPR
76 Berkeley CA
