My response to Stacey Waite’s Becoming the Loon: Performance Pedagogy and Female Masculinity is hopefully as she expected it- a renewed understand and deconstruction identity‚ and how it’s been expected to be played out in our everyday lives. I enjoyed this reading‚ and it’s intelligent and simultaneously intriguing wording. The "flashbacks" were well done‚ flowed together‚ and were creative in their comparisons to the main text. The paper was also easy to read‚ which made me all the more intrigued
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wrong‚ it’s not because I have any qualm about homosexual relationships‚ but because of some bad memories related to something named K Project (its OSTs are pure earworms‚ in contrast :P ). Anno once commented that he created Rei Ayanami as a deconstruction of the Japanese concept of an ideal woman - humility‚ obedient and selfless. All these factors joined hands together to make her a very tragic character‚ if not the most tragic one of the cast. She couldn’t be loved by people around her‚ who viewed
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The painters Matisse and Picasso both belonged to a breed of artist who‚ like Cezanne‚ hoped to redefine what the viewer might make of art in terms of space‚ form and perspective. They each battled with overcoming the illusion of space and refused to adhere to traditional use of color in depictions of nature and the human image. Looking at the three paintings together‚ one is immediately struck by the staging offered by each painting‚ not only provided by the confines of the canvas but also
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would walk into the room he would cringe. I quickly related to the theme of destruction of our natural impulses. This theme was evident to be when rust spills out of Blastic when in reality it should have been blood. I think it symbolizes the deconstruction of our humanity into a more unnatural existence. I see societies evolution into a more unnatural existence almost every day. It ranges from the processed foods that we consume to the sedentary lives that people live. Both of those examples are
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ways and often science itself‚ choosing instead to look at concepts like context‚ time‚ space‚ ETC. in more of a broad spectrum. Within continental philosophy are sub-schools of philosophy known as existentialism‚ phenomenology‚ hermeneutics‚ deconstruction‚ and critical theory. Of these‚ the two most influential schools were existentialism and phenomenology. Both of these schools stem out of the nineteenth century and much of their theory can be traced back to Socrates and pre-socratic philosophy
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The idea of searching for your identity is quite common nowadays. With the herald of the idea of postmodernism in this deconstruction of the question of “Why am I here?” being present to digest. To represent this idea is the story of Chris McCandless‚ as told in the book Into the Wild. The story actually begins quite late in the journey of Chris McCandless with him meeting a truck driver who gives him a lift‚ named Jim Gilliam. The story from there moves around from here to after his death‚ covering
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term for skeptical interpretations of culture‚ literature‚ art‚ philosophy‚ economics‚ architecture‚ fiction‚ and literary criticism. It is also confused with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post-structural thought. Contents * 1 Deconstruction * 2 Postmodernism and Structuralism * 2.1 Post-structuralism * 3 Postmodernism and Post-postmodernism * 4 History of term * 5 Influence on art
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into two separate traditions. Continental philosophy is the most different in its response to Hegelian idealism in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. The main schools of philosophical thought are existentialism‚ phenomenology‚ hermeneutics‚ deconstruction‚ and critical theory‚ being that existentialism and phenomenology are the two prominent schools. Some of the themes of existentialism include “Philosophy must focus on the individual in her or his confrontation with the world‚” and “Senselessness
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Orwell was influenced by the totalitarian regimes of the time‚ specifically‚ Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Communist Russia. Both regimes glorified and almost deified their leaders‚ practically turning them into gods. Both required the deconstruction of any individuality and free thinking. Both required their people to put the “party” above all else. They demanded absolute loyalty‚ and any form of disobedience resulted in imprisonment‚ work camps‚ torture‚
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is to be an institution‚ it must to some extent break with the past‚ keep the memory of the past‚ while inaugurating something absolutely new” (Caputo 6). In this quote from Jacques Derrida’s 1994 conversation Deconstruction in a Nutshell‚ Derrida’s submits that the use of deconstruction within literature should facilitate fluidity between the past and contemporary literature. This negotiation with time appears active in the 1996 novel Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels as the two mingling narratives
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