Comments on: Blue Pill: http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blue-pill English 738T, Spring 2015 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amanda Visconti http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/#comment-421 Amanda Visconti Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:28:34 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=577#comment-421 If you have a "comments" option on the dashboard left-hand menu, you should be able to click on that, hover over the title in question, and see an edit button. Can't remember if that menu item is available to the "author" role, though. If you have a “comments” option on the dashboard left-hand menu, you should be able to click on that, hover over the title in question, and see an edit button. Can’t remember if that menu item is available to the “author” role, though.

]]> By: Philip Stewart http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/#comment-419 Philip Stewart Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:26:33 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=577#comment-419 "audience endearment to the audience"--> "audience endearment to Caleb Williams" Is there a way to edit one's comments in this system? I keep making typos! Ouch! “audience endearment to the audience”–> “audience endearment to Caleb Williams”

Is there a way to edit one’s comments in this system? I keep making typos! Ouch!

]]> By: Philip Stewart http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/#comment-418 Philip Stewart Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:25:20 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=577#comment-418 I'm thinking about the chance that "it would serve as a total subversion of the controlling system" alongside the deflation of audience endearment to the audience. I say this because in our time we've observed a kind of hegemonic ju-jitsu that has absorbed the energy of destabilizing critiques and turned them back against the stability of its own targets: so, science is subjected to the "teaching of the controversy," "critical thinking" is ranged as a value against findings of science inconvenient to a particular ideology on the one hand, and inimical to a particular industry on the other. The mind-set that countenances radically destabilized vision enables reciprocal destabilization. From these observations I am convinced that a hegemonic system can fully and fairly ruthlessly insulate itself from critique by dissipating its critics energies in sophistic effort-waste. I wish it were otherwise. With substantially worse than Falklands, and substantially more vivid and complex scenarios of reality inversion churning through society, I really wish it were otherwise. I’m thinking about the chance that “it would serve as a total subversion of the controlling system” alongside the deflation of audience endearment to the audience. I say this because in our time we’ve observed a kind of hegemonic ju-jitsu that has absorbed the energy of destabilizing critiques and turned them back against the stability of its own targets: so, science is subjected to the “teaching of the controversy,” “critical thinking” is ranged as a value against findings of science inconvenient to a particular ideology on the one hand, and inimical to a particular industry on the other. The mind-set that countenances radically destabilized vision enables reciprocal destabilization. From these observations I am convinced that a hegemonic system can fully and fairly ruthlessly insulate itself from critique by dissipating its critics energies in sophistic effort-waste. I wish it were otherwise.

With substantially worse than Falklands, and substantially more vivid and complex scenarios of reality inversion churning through society, I really wish it were otherwise.

]]> By: Charity Hancock http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/#comment-359 Charity Hancock Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:35:33 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=577#comment-359 First of all - Nigel, I am SO GLAD you found a use for the Keanu meme! I saw it awhile ago, but couldn't find one I liked. Secondly - I love the idea of a wink a-la-Branagh's Iago, especially after a dramatic courtroom "I am Falkland's murderer!" scene. But I'm not sure if that would serve to endear Caleb to the audience (that trickster!) or alienate them (that TRICKSTER!). Interestingly, on the one hand it would completely dismantle Godwin's sympathetic portrayal of wrongfully-persecuted Caleb (and by extension, his political critique), and on the other, it would serve as a total subversion of the controlling system (a compelling political statement in itself). I suppose while the rousing, empowering account seems more appealing, Godwin's views on revolution (and his insight into the 'reality' of the system) speak for themselves. First of all – Nigel, I am SO GLAD you found a use for the Keanu meme! I saw it awhile ago, but couldn’t find one I liked.

Secondly – I love the idea of a wink a-la-Branagh’s Iago, especially after a dramatic courtroom “I am Falkland’s murderer!” scene. But I’m not sure if that would serve to endear Caleb to the audience (that trickster!) or alienate them (that TRICKSTER!). Interestingly, on the one hand it would completely dismantle Godwin’s sympathetic portrayal of wrongfully-persecuted Caleb (and by extension, his political critique), and on the other, it would serve as a total subversion of the controlling system (a compelling political statement in itself). I suppose while the rousing, empowering account seems more appealing, Godwin’s views on revolution (and his insight into the ‘reality’ of the system) speak for themselves.

]]> By: Amanda Visconti http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/blue-pill/#comment-351 Amanda Visconti Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:58:53 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=577#comment-351 Caleb Williams certainly sets us up to see literature (e.g. the ballad, the hypothetical excuse in Falkland’s trunk) as a powerful tool for creating new worlds. If Caleb Williams were a movie, it could end with him breaking the fourth wall and giving the audience a wink. Caleb Williams certainly sets us up to see literature (e.g. the ballad, the hypothetical excuse in Falkland’s trunk) as a powerful tool for creating new worlds. If Caleb Williams were a movie, it could end with him breaking the fourth wall and giving the audience a wink.

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