IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hijab, Henrietta Lacks, Bildungsroman
16 Apr 2018
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Siddhartha: knowledge vs wisdom, the river, cyclical nature of life, bildungsroman. Kupperman: myth of pleasure, hedonic treadmill. Default settings, not challenging: two paths: immerse yourself in nding new skills or go out of your comfort zone. Tuesday, february 20, 2018: library of babel, searching for all the knowledge, meaning in the universe, babel: disorder, library: order, hope vs no hope, epistemic searches for meaning, the book of books. Bordo slender body essay and nusrat hijab essay: physical image and desire to control it. The media wants to control it: entertainment industry/commodity culture. Skloot: henrietta lacks, two cultures, ethics in medicine, two stories. Henrietta"s story and legacy of race: abstraction. Fill the picture back with lacks and her history. Gimme shelter: love and power, love and violence, eros and thanatos, utopia vs dystopia. Self denial vs pleasure: in uence of the media/culture industry, finding/searching for enlightenment.
