Wash Av Huffy Crew Symposium suggestion
To the esteemed members of this inimitable collective--
The end of the semester (and thus college--yes, we must face the facts) closeth in. "Hora venit, et nunc est," as my man Jesus said. Therefore I am proposing a year-end symposium, tentatively titled "Wut I lernt in skool." The event (no, Sheriff and Kushakov, not the Event) would call for each of us to submit a post in which we tie together the ideas from at least two texts we have read over the course of this liberal education of ours. (IPH majors, do not kill me for suggesting you relive your comp exams--this time it'll be fun!)
This exercise will basically be a way to flex our humanistic muscles, which I'm pretty sure reside in the wrist and the anus. Each submission should be in a separate post, and each should entail extensive commentary and critique from the others members of the Crew. The well's run a bit dry around here lately--let's see a revival! Just to give you a taste of what such a submission might look like, I am thinking about discussing Kant's "An answer to the question, What is Enlightenment?" and Foucault's commentary "What is Enlightenment (Was ist Aufklarung)?" wherein you would get ideas of human betterment, politics, critique, and resistance to authority. I'm also kicking around the idea of doing a comparative study of the concept of injustice as found in Plato (Gorgias, Thrasymachus, etc) and Nietzsche (and commented on by Adorno and Horkheimer, but that's another beast entirely). You see the possibilities.
A final suggestion: that the comparisons not necessarily favor one position over the other (i.e. whatever you're reading and happen to agree with right now. How boring!)
I make no apologies for the fact that this symposium clearly favors those among us who have studied such things. Fuck it, we get it how we live.
The end of the semester (and thus college--yes, we must face the facts) closeth in. "Hora venit, et nunc est," as my man Jesus said. Therefore I am proposing a year-end symposium, tentatively titled "Wut I lernt in skool." The event (no, Sheriff and Kushakov, not the Event) would call for each of us to submit a post in which we tie together the ideas from at least two texts we have read over the course of this liberal education of ours. (IPH majors, do not kill me for suggesting you relive your comp exams--this time it'll be fun!)
This exercise will basically be a way to flex our humanistic muscles, which I'm pretty sure reside in the wrist and the anus. Each submission should be in a separate post, and each should entail extensive commentary and critique from the others members of the Crew. The well's run a bit dry around here lately--let's see a revival! Just to give you a taste of what such a submission might look like, I am thinking about discussing Kant's "An answer to the question, What is Enlightenment?" and Foucault's commentary "What is Enlightenment (Was ist Aufklarung)?" wherein you would get ideas of human betterment, politics, critique, and resistance to authority. I'm also kicking around the idea of doing a comparative study of the concept of injustice as found in Plato (Gorgias, Thrasymachus, etc) and Nietzsche (and commented on by Adorno and Horkheimer, but that's another beast entirely). You see the possibilities.
A final suggestion: that the comparisons not necessarily favor one position over the other (i.e. whatever you're reading and happen to agree with right now. How boring!)
I make no apologies for the fact that this symposium clearly favors those among us who have studied such things. Fuck it, we get it how we live.
posted by to scranton at 12:37 AM
4 Comments:
This event and an event are not mutually exclusive. I hope to experience both. I've actually been interested in trying to think about art and aesthetics in a way that I feel i've been a bit cheated on (my fault partially). Also, the geographic/topological questions, things like individual/social interactions with particular types of environments, architectures, etc. Also, pedagogy and/or the role of the intellectual
The idea that a college education actually matters in the post 9/11 world is not only preposterous, but reprehensible. Shame on you, Scantron!
Preposterous, reprehensible, and I for one am game.
i am too emo for this project. i will now go sit in the corner with my headphones and think - but not write - about nietzsche.
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