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John Panus wrote a new blog post Looking Back and Moving Forward in the group American Studies: 9 years, 3 months ago

For 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 […]
John Panus wrote a new blog post Project Reflection in the group American Studies: 9 years, 4 months ago

As 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 […]
John Panus edited the blog post An intro of sorts in the group American Studies: 9 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]
John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and Neoliberalism: Research Semester Bibliography in the group American Studies: 9 years, 7 months ago

Here’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]
John Panus edited the blog post Abstract/Prospectus with a little writing in the group American Studies: 9 years, 7 months ago

This 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]
John Panus wrote a new blog post (Re)mobilizing Death: Ghosts, Zombies, and Memory as Biopolitcal Dispositive in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

After 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 […]
John Panus wrote a new blog post Preliminary thoughts on “The Devil in Silver” in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

If 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 […]
John Panus wrote a new blog post Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower. in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

I’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 […]
John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject: an introduction in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

Hello 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]
John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 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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