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John Panus wrote a new blog post Looking Back and Moving Forward in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 4 months agoFor the purposes of this post, I split my writing into three sections: Paternal Power, Jaws, and Ghosts. These sections function largely as organizing principles, and are by no means the exclusive focus, or o […]
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John Panus wrote a new blog post Project Reflection in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 4 months agoAs I’m working, or more accurately–struggling–through my essay, I want to take a moment to reflect on my project. I’m having particularly hard time writing this essay, and I’m not entirely sure why that is. I’ve […]
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John Panus edited the blog post An intro of sorts in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago*A brief note: my intention is to have two main sections to my essay–what I have posted here is the introduction to the first section. In my final draft, something will definitely come before the summary paragraph (which currently is the first paragraph) but I thought that would be much easier to write once I have everything worked out. I’m pl…[Read more]
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John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and Neoliberalism: Research Semester Bibliography in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 8 months agoHere’s the bibliography for my research this semester; I read every text on this list, but not every text I read made it onto this list. These are the sources that I think will either find their way into my essay next semester, or alternatively, influenced my thinking enough to include them, even if I don’t think they’ll make it into the essay…[Read more]
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John Panus edited the blog post Abstract/Prospectus with a little writing in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 8 months agoThis project takes as its launching point several claims about power and contemporary subjectivity: first, that the legitimization of authority and power now takes place through biopolitics, a form of power “in which the vital aspects of human life are intervened upon for the purpose of rationalizing regimes of authority over knowledge, the ge…[Read more]
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John Panus wrote a new blog post (Re)mobilizing Death: Ghosts, Zombies, and Memory as Biopolitcal Dispositive in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 10 months agoAfter a helpful discussion with Dr. McCoy regarding my last post—specifically my comment about Tupac in The Devil in Silver—in which Dr. McCoy suggested that I consider similar strange intertextualities as “gh […]
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John Panus wrote a new blog post Preliminary thoughts on “The Devil in Silver” in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoIf this post has a thesis, it’s this: I have thoughts about Victor LaValle’s novel, “The Devil in Silver.” There isn’t much sophistication yet. I’m 170 pages into the novel (412 pages total), so a lot of my […]
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John Panus wrote a new blog post Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower. in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoI’m taking this blog in a bit of a different direction; rather than the explorations of novels I said would come next, I’m using this post to share part of my current annotated bibliography. My reasoning for doin […]
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John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject: an introduction in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 11 months agoHello all,
This is my first blog post for my English senior honors thesis: Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject. For my project, I explore illness narratives and the construction of the ill-body in contemporary African-American literature, and the critical conversations surrounding these narratives. More specifically, my thesis seeks to…[Read more]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 4 months ago
I remember Beth telling us that when she started teaching the Parables in her INTD, most students didn’t find the novels that realistic. But only six years later, her students generally agreed that the Parables […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 4 months ago
I signed up to receive daily emails from the LA Times while I was doing research for my blog post on the California water crisis, and about a week ago I received an email regarding migration from Africa to Italy. […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 4 months ago
While reading some posts from the beginning of the semester I found Hannah’s post, “Issues of Consent and Pedophilia in Fledgling.” I think Hannah’s post is important to revisit at this time, partly because we […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 5 months ago
A few of our classmates have blogged about their narrative expectations and/or disappointment with the prospect of Doro’s return, or lack thereof. John’s post “Doro Aint Dead“, and Andre’s post, “Victories in the […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 5 months ago
A few weeks ago, Kayla voiced her concern about sustainability in Clay’s Ark. She was concerned there would not be enough food on earth when appetites became insatiable as a result of the disease. At first I […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 6 months ago
While reading Pramod Nayar’s essay, “A New Biological Citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling,” I discovered that although Nayar succeeds in his argument—that Shori has biological citizenship as […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 6 months ago
Kayla Marsh’s blog post “Trauma and Formation of the Self,” hones in on an incredibly important aspect of Butler’s work—the impact of experience on one’s self-perception. As Kayla puts it, “the mind protects […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 6 months ago
In my blog post last week I wrote that although Octavia Butler didn’t specifically write about education, her commentary on innocence in Wild Seed is important because of the way perceived innocence manifests in […]
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John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 6 months ago
After reading Sikivu Hutchinson’s post, “Policing Our Girls, Taming ‘Topsy,’” on “The Feminist Wire,” I took a few moments to look through the various hyperlinks in the text. One hyperlink eventually lead me to a […]
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