Thoughts on Foucault
Upon reading Foucault’s text this week, I found myself intrigued because it didn’t feel like I was reading a typical work of philosophy. I think it was summed up during lecture when Christina said that Foucault never attempted to suggest new ways of thinking, but more so leaves it up to the reader to take […] Continue reading →
The Sex was (not) Spectacular
Hey all, Here comes another blog post from yours truly. So this week (next week) we had to read Foucault’s book (i dunno if it is an essay or what) called The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An introduction. When I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Sex was (not) Spectacular
Hey all, Here comes another blog post from yours truly. So this week (next week) we had to read Foucault’s book (i dunno if it is an essay or what) called The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An introduction. When I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Ramble…Ramble…Fanon…Ramble.
I’m really happy that we are finally getting into the books that I find interesting and actually enjoy reading! As I said in seminar today to my groupies, I find it completely strange when I think about race and how people are still excluded from different things or treated differently because of who they are. […] Continue reading →
Are we all under Freud masks?
I would actually like to discuss the points brought up in the lecture for my blog post. I thought the idea of “We are all Freudians now” really stuck out to me. I had never really thought about freud having … Continue reading → Continue reading →
What is culture to you?—Essentially, Who are you?
I pose these questions in the wake of reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a book about the psychological effects on black (and white) people imposed by culture and therefore by society. This seemed a large point of Fanon’s argument, that … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Behind the Mask
So, I’ve kind of put the different texts that we’ve been reading in Arts one into two different categories. The first group consists of works that I very much enjoy due to the fact that I typically find myself in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
identity crises
Hong Kong was a colony of Great Britain until July 1st, 1997, when it was handed back to China. My point? I’m 19 and have lived pretty much all my life in a post colonial country. Why is this post … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Pebbles in the River–Random Thoughts on Fanon and the Secret Agenda of ArtsOne
Fanon’s book White Masks, Black Skin speaks of how the Black Subject is forced, either wittingly or unwittingly by the colonizer, into an inferiority complex who will hence strive to imitate the culture of the colonizer. In the same way, the Black Subject’s culture and mores are like the black stones on the bottom of a white […] Continue reading →
Pebbles in the River–Random Thoughts on Fanon and the Secret Agenda of ArtsOne
Fanon’s book White Masks, Black Skin speaks of how the Black Subject is forced, either wittingly or unwittingly by the colonizer, into an inferiority complex who will hence strive to imitate the culture of the colonizer. In the same way, the Black Subject’s culture and mores are like the black stones on the bottom of a white […] Continue reading →