English @ SUNY Geneseo | Noah Mazer | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/nmazer/activity/ Activity feed for Noah Mazer. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 da55e600e06089dcbf3e6f9f145e25a6 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Memory and Compassion in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12866/ Tue, 14 May 2019 18:44:23 -0500 “[…] 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 […]

]]> 0 cac8b1ffc4c473ede8ebc90a6bbf9868 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Visual Continuity in Prince's Work in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12602/ Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:33:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f47d08f3d7ac8acb0c47883c2eb9fc5b Noah Mazer edited the blog post Progress in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12377/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:35:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 08e42f46b98bfd0d7cf28495cee25282 Noah Mazer edited the blog post Drawing Points in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12217/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:51:43 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 746582eb2eb3af09da0986e6b8f8f952 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Response to "Unpacking Caliban" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10203/ Thu, 03 May 2018 01:34:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9e2bd3a4060cc32711aab6aa9200606e Noah Mazer edited the blog post "I will kneel to him": Caliban's Gods in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10195/ Wed, 02 May 2018 20:01:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 7c8750afb78e8e31bcfe7660737d5792 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Fear City Reemerges from Memory in the Form of a Wish in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9913/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:46:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9d9f082da3a846011067ed41e9e0db05 Noah Mazer edited the blog post "this beast / this child": Why Luther B? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9820/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:21:35 -0500 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]

]]> 0 845d417b9c239724184e7f49924c71e9 Noah Mazer edited the blog post The Blood Dazzler Speaks in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9778/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:27:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 023214883c591d6aec0e60e53a67c1bf Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Response to "Instruments for and against memory" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9596/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:19:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 52b9b65bb45b11e5cdc0de5a780fff0e Noah Mazer edited the blog post Inti Raymi and the Performance of Created Memory in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9547/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:22:25 -0500 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]

]]> 0 15cbb87698634e9518efcf3b30d3e804 Noah Mazer joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9452/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:26:54 -0500 0 88a1f0824aaf2ef131c067c7f7112c12 Noah Mazer replied to the topic The Encouragement of Privilege in Dead Poets' Society in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-encouragement-of-privilege-in-dead-poets-society/#post-1030 Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:10:21 -0500 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]

]]> 2be6c6a20019ecb63ca1a51c0a92abe1 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post War and Nature in "The Thin Red Line" in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8055/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:14:36 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 f753843d2d4f4cde89982876687fc676 Noah Mazer joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8054/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:14:31 -0500 0 4b8549c5f9854c7b949151b9ff971337 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Role of the Poet in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7656/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:49:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 0ec12191a8fc838de8032dc201a5d489 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: The Image in Succession in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7593/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:56:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9738f9d6ee522ddf8c2dfde1633186a1 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post The Proper and Perfect Symbol in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6856/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:30:53 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d0dd0998f1815d257d7b839ed663c9e0 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Even More Thoughts on Erasure Poetry: port on in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6499/ Thu, 12 May 2016 01:31:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 ee0059497da5ac064f89830c9f42fd88 Noah Mazer joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5909/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 02:41:45 -0500 0 78d0595ebb8ddb262d932c018cdce396 Noah Mazer joined the group Geneseo Almanacs https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5660/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:19:57 -0500 0 f41391e911b7a0d9876c7a3fa57422cb Noah Mazer's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5271/ Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:25:38 -0500 0 343351398606a6e5e11a4405e1bb89e8 Noah Mazer became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5268/ Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:24:14 -0500 0