- Apr 2016
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chronicle.com chronicle.com
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the body and fear
What does this mean?
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Regardless of the fallout, the public intellectual forces a question, establishes a divide, and demands that her readers orient themselves around that divide.
This sentence summarizes her argument well
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A fifth-generation farmer from Ohio, Roscoe Filburn wasn’t the sort of man who liked to be told what to do, so he wasn’t going to limit himself to growing 11 acres of wheat just because the federal government said he couldn’t grow more.
I'm confused what this has to do with public intellectual essays
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- Mar 2016
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www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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But since hi-tech states can and do kill hundreds or thousands of civilians,
This number is also probably often much higher than reported, especially if other countries use the same rules as the US. In a John Oliver segment on drone strikes, he says that, because it's difficult to know who the fighters are in some places, the US sometimes does not count any men of fighting age as civilian casualties.
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The Israeli army has tried to justify striking civilian areas.
My first impression is that this seems like a pretty hard thing to justify in any circumstance.
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- Feb 2016
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learn.bu.edu learn.bu.edu
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bu Ghraib were photographs of "us,"
I don't understand what she means by this, especially since she doesn't think images can be interpreted on their own
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Photographs lack narrative coherence, in her view, and such coherence can alone supply the needs of the understanding.
This seems like a pretty westernized assumption about media. For example, there are many foreign art films that don't have centralized or narrative plots the way we're used to, but that doesn't mean they don't make a point or can't be understood.
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ceived within the context of a relevant political consciousness.
I would argue that context is required to interpret just about anything, or at the very least deepens your interpretation of it.
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n my view, it won't do to say, as Sontag repeatedly does throughout her writings on photography, that the photograph cannot by itself provide an interpretation, that we need captions and written analysis to supplement the discrete and punctual image,
This reminds me of a theory we learned in COM 101, that images can carry some meaning with them, but not all. Meaning is also created by the viewer. (I think this would apply even if there is a caption.)
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learn.bu.edu learn.bu.edu
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If an artwork is produced in a Muslim country, it can be called "Islamic."
This use of terminology seems like it assumes that everyone within the country has the same views as the country's "official" views, like the problem pointed out in the Stuart Hall lecture.
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Muhammad's visage has been left blank
Is this why this depiction is accepted and not considered disrespectful? I was under the impression that no visual depiction of Muhammed in any way is allowed.
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Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-2006?
In 2005, a Danish newspaper published several cartoons that depicted Muhammed and were interpreted as insulting. This angered Danish Muslim groups, and, when news of the incident spread, led to protests and violence in many other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy
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- Jan 2016
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learn.bu.edu learn.bu.edu
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onrad's most famous story, TheHeart of Darkness, is an ironic, even terrifyingenactment of this thesis that as the narrator puts it, “the conquest of the Earth whichmostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion, a slightlyflatter noses than ourselves is not a pretty thing, when you look into it too much. Whatredeems it, is the idea. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretense but an idea,and an unselfish belief in the idea, something you can bow down before and sacrificeto.”
I have read this novel, and its narrator definitely assumes same idea of the superiority of the west and western values that Said has been discussing. Africa and its people are constantly described as primitive and uncivilized.
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untington's authorities are not the cultures themselves but a small handful authoritiespicked by him, because, in fact, they emphasize the latent bellicosity in one or anotherstatement by one or another so-called spokesperson for or about that culture.
I think this is an important point. If you really want to understand another culture, you have to hear from the average people who live in it every day.
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exploit differences and conflicts
This seems like an incredibly dangerous strategy, and one which will have very negative results for civilians living in that area. It seems we would only be intensifying the destruction. Also, how does he even expect the West or anyone else to control a region if the people in it are constantly fighting with each other?
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