English 67

I’m going to try to elaborate on my comments tying the beginning and ending together. Hopefully I can keep this all clear, bear with me I’m working off 2 hours of sleep. . .
Jellyfish- I think the idea of the Jellyfish extends beyond just Orr to also include Haber and the Aliens. I see the [...]

What did anyone make of the opening paragraphs of Lathe of Heaven?
And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking. . .
What will the creature made of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind [...]

My uncle sent me an article from the Washington Post with a paragraph I’d like to discuss:
“As to Dumbledore, it would have been disturbing if Rowling had used her final book to argue for some baldly political agenda — if the Hogwarts headmaster and professor Snape had married, for example, in a touching civil ceremony. [...]

In class we briefly discussed the idea of alienation of labour.
In recent years (dating back to around Ford’s time, as Brave New World points out), we have seen increasing mechanization of hte work force.  Individuals are being used as machines, as they repeat the same action over and over again on a conveyor belt assembly [...]

[I'm using this orthographic monstrosity "u/dystopia" as a lexeme that denotes the inseparability of utopias and dystopias]
It’s taken me an inordinately long time to formulate some thoughts on u/dystopia, freedom and collectivity, and post-modernity in Huxley. Why, I am not sure. Not because they are anything particularly profound, that much is certain.
The idea of Utopia [...]

Being a huge science fiction junkie, I noticed something that was glaringly obvious in this short story that I see as being true of the genre as a whole. There is very little room for a strong female protagonist in science fiction stories; the few exceptions being stories written by a female author. [...]

I just wanted to reorganize the idea I said in class about utopias and power. In Brave New World, complete power is in the hands of the Controller, Mustapha Mond, or I guess in a handful of Controllers for the different regions of the world. A utopian society would be impossible if [...]

This afternoon, I went to Jennifer Friedlander’s lecture, “Doing the Full Monty With Jacques Lacan.” On the whole, I found the talk to be engaging and informative. I am unfamiliar with Lacan’s work, and much of what Professor Friedlander said helped contextualize the bits of Lacanian theory I do know. But when Prof. Friedlander arrived [...]

FALL FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m.
Blue Room, Frank Dining Hall, Pomona College
October 17, 2007
Doing the Full Monty with Jacques Lacan:
Spectatorship, Sexual In-Difference, and the Phallus
Jennifer Friedlander
Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History,
In this lecture Jennifer Friedlander explores the implications of Jacques Lacan’s notion [...]

Here’s my shot at tranlsation:
Utopias appear to be more realizable than believed before. And we find before us a new question that is agonizing in a very different way: how to avoid their definitive realization? Utopias are realizable. Life marches toward Utopia. And perhaps a new century will begin, an age where the intellectuals and [...]