How Glorifying Austen by Shifting the Baseline Demeans the Women Who Enabled her to Write in the First Place
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Presentation script, SCSECS 2019 conference, Dallas, 23 Feb: “Rise of the Female Self: Frances Burney’s Journal, Letter, and Novel Writing as Technologies of Self/care”
Download a copy of the slides here. Slide 1: This project is a reduced version of a seminar paper during a class on a transhistorical...
On the techno(logical) sublime
“We cannot deny that our intelligence of the world is intrinsically linked to the technologies that extend our senses”--Chantal Pontibrand (135). In his essay “Blankness...
How does self-care in 21st-century late capitalism differ from that of classical Rome, early medieval Europe, the Renaissance, or even the Civil Rights era? A Synthesis.
In our seminar at Wayne State University August to December 2018--Self-Care with the superb alternate title, Treat Thyself--the Magnificent Seven of us have trans-historically approached/applied...
Maps of Affect
Steven Shaviro’s Post-cinematic Affect and Jonathan Flatley’s Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism provide a useful framework and glossary to work with as...