WGS334H1 Lecture Notes - Structural Violence, Psychopathy, Zora Neale Hurston
28 Jan 2014
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Assignment rubrics are up, same with next upcoming assignment: matheson book is available on friday/ find it through other means. Recap: modernity and "freedom" idea of freedom and enlightenment. "interpretation of the past" (connects to what we talked about history of the zombies etc. ) words like "freedom" if without attachment to history, it becomes vague ex) operation iraqi freedom. Important to think about political history and experience. If connects hegel"s "freedom" to haitian revolution it can mean resistance and capital/ white supremacy. If we connect hegel"s idea of "freedom" to real political experiences he was encountering at his time then "freedom" could mean something else differently. The comaroffs "alien-nation" article (779) connects millennial zombies (like riots, expels waste product of society, swelling global underclass) (784) "eavesdropping" to investigate the emergence of zombie tales in tabloids (782) idea about money magic etc.
