Meeting Myths
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them” (Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 490) This week, I revisited Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling for Arts One. This text is one that has, in many ways, haunted me … Continue reading Continue reading
Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now
I know it doesn’t matter whether or not I write any more blogs posts since yesterday was the last lecture and Arts One is for the most part, over. However, I’ll take it upon myself that I admit writing these blogs have been a (bit – not entirely) a chore. However, I find a certain […] Continue reading →
A little rant over here
Hello, So I’ve already done my blogging for this week, but I felt the need to post a little rant, and since it has everything to do with Arts One here it is: I’ve heard multiple comments from my peers … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Things Could Fall Together Better
So today’s lecture was about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, but really it just felt like a lot about the issue of racism between Conrad and Achebe. Now I’m not complaining. I think it’s an interesting topic, and one I focused … Continue reading → Continue reading →
girls girls boys
I remember in psychology class back in high school, we learnt about the education of children and the way advertisements and commercials affect children and their perception of who they are and what is acceptable in society. Why is this … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Right of a Rant
This week we’re reading RIghts Of Man by Thomas Paine, and I’m finding this book very hard to get through. Firstly, it is very historically based, and history is not my strongest subject. I’m knowledgable in a few key parts … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Rights of Man
I found Thomas Paine’s book “Rights of Man” a little hard to get through – there were some interesting moments but I felt like I had to sift through pages of criticism of Burke to find them. I have studied the French Revolution in great depth but I didn’t know there was such a response […] Continue reading →
Sexualities and Fetishes
This week for Arts One we read Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality. Now I have not completely finished the book, therefore I have not yet formed a strong opinion on the overall text. But it definitely was not what … Continue reading → Continue reading →
A Note on Foucault and Sexuality
After reading a bit of Foucault, it made my mind do a bit of running. I will say though, it deserves a second read to understand it more clearly. But, as I was saying… Reading Foucault made me really think about how we think about sexuality today. I don’t know how to think of it […] 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 →