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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Memory and Compassion in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
“[…] herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, —who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so litt […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Visual Continuity in Prince’s Work in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
In the process of putting together our blog post “Untangling Sustainability,” the group I was a part of spent a good chunk of time finding a definition for sustainable/sustainability that wasn’t attached to a […]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post Progress in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
The final bullet of the final slide we looked at today in class, under the heading “Du Bois ‘Of the Meaning of Progress,'” read “Questioning the value of progress.” Nitpicking, I want to point out that the l […]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post Drawing Points in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
I initially encountered Steve Prince’s work in ENGL 432, last spring, where I remember feeling somewhat frustrated with the way that we were looking at and interpreting Prince’s work. In that setting, it seemed […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Response to “Unpacking Caliban” in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
In “Echoes in the Bone,” under the “Performing Origins” heading, Roach discusses Henry Purcell’s 1688 opera Dido and Aeneas, quoting in particular the “Eccho Dance of the Furies,” where an off-stage chorus “c […]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post “I will kneel to him”: Caliban’s Gods in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
The body of folk wisdom that encircles the history of European colonization of the Americas is both deeply flawed and widely pervasive. It’s widely enough believed that a professor I took a required class for my L […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Fear City Reemerges from Memory in the Form of a Wish in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
Search “new york in the 70s” through Google and you’ll notice a trend of links with titles like “1970s New York in 41 Terrifying Photos,” “A decade of urban decay,” and “New York City Used to be a Terrifying Plac […]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post “this beast / this child”: Why Luther B? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Why does Smith waste so much time on Luther B? In the midst of so much human tragedy, why does Blood Dazzler go out of its way to elegize a dog? Firstly, because Smith is the poet and can do as she likes. Also because the Luther B poems are not simply about the “Rottweiler, / bull, whatever that dog is” and his perspective, although I don’t think…[Read more]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post The Blood Dazzler Speaks in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
The hurricane simile one might expect to find in Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane” seems, disappointingly, entirely absent. There’s no mention of tropical storms or ocean currents or wind systems in the 1984 single — the central issues we instead find the song’s speaker concerned with are mainly aggressive sexual desire (“The bitch is hu…[Read more]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Response to “Instruments for and against memory” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
Note: this post does not argue against the necessity for an institution like Yad Vashem, and I’ve tried to write it in a way that will not purposely invite controversy.
Isabel refers to Yad Vashem in her r […]
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Noah Mazer edited the blog post Inti Raymi and the Performance of Created Memory in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
We only ever hear one question asked in the academic decathlon central to the plot of The Day After Tomorrow: “Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro defeated this Incan emperor at the Peruvian highland town of Cajamarca. What is his name?” “Atahualpa,” Sam answers, and he’s correct. Beth suggested to us that we might consider writing on this t…[Read more]
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Noah Mazer joined the group American Studies 6 years, 2 months ago
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Noah Mazer replied to the topic The Encouragement of Privilege in Dead Poets' Society in the forum Film Talk 6 years, 12 months ago
In terms of how Keating reinforces the boys’ privilege, I think it’s also worth considering the texts that he privileges in his class. Dead Poets’ Society takes place in 1959, well into the Beat movement and four years after the publication of Ginsberg’s “Howl,” poetic movements that did much to push the boundaries of what poetry could say and…[Read more]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post War and Nature in “The Thin Red Line” in the group Film Talk: 7 years, 1 month ago
“Nature’s cruel,” says Lieutenant Colonel Tall to Captain Staros as he reassigns his subordinate to the JAGs and sends him back home, and yet The Thin Red Line seems to imply, in every shot, the opposite. It is […]
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Noah Mazer joined the group Film Talk 7 years, 1 month ago
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Role of the Poet in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago
It’s been hard to think about poetry since our pre- and post-election discussions without considering it in terms of the role of poets in the face of injustice, like we talked about, and since then I’ve been th […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: The Image in Succession in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
francine j. harris’ poem “what you’d find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school” depicts exactly what it says it will in the title, and shows the debris and remnants of student life at a D […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post The Proper and Perfect Symbol in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
Pound spends only a sentence discussing symbols in the Credo section of “A Few Dont’s,” but his direction that “if a man use ‘symbols’ he must use them so that their symbolic function does not obtrude” was […]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Even More Thoughts on Erasure Poetry: port on in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months ago
This erasure (sorry about the quality, by the way) was intended to be part of my report on form, but I wasn’t able to get to it then, so I thought I’d put it up in a blog post. Because this erasure was originally […]
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Noah Mazer joined the group The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
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