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Dec. 4th, 2006 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethDone quite a bit. There weren't any handouts I hadn't read yet (yaays, keeping up!), I read the chapter in Drama+Theory (albeit really slowly, but it was the thinking kind of slow), I collected quoteage from all 4 set texts and chose outfits for the main characters (thereby fulfilling my obligations to group work, and also covering a bit of Magwitch in case he don't get done), and now I've started on a book calls itself "Upstaging big daddy"
... people have fun with titles.
"Directing theater as if gender and race matter"
sounds interesting
I'm only the second person to ever take it out our library, and the first was in 2005. I find this vaguely depressing. Maybe a lot of other people read photocopies.
quoteage:
"Hartsock sees the capitalist system as a set of power relations revolving around the buyer and seller as points of reference. This buyer and seller need on another to survive but at the same time seek to consume one another, a relation that alienates one from the other."
1 - meat!
2 - aliens + alien hunters = alienation
... my brain, it is not quite like the brains of others.
I was thinking though, we're reading Top Girls and so far the critical stuff has concentrated a lot on the bit at the start when people from all through history get together and have dinner. Apparently in mundane world this Needs Explaining. I just kind of figured holodeck / time travel / seance (/ hallucination) and ignored it, because the how don't figure into the story, so why worry?
Which made me think that all this stuff they keep saying is cool about TG, about constellations of history, could be said about Doctor Who. I mean, not all of it, because they didn't usually sit around getting very drunk and talking about babies. But there was unexpected clothing combinations and a lot of mashing history together.
And, okay, having bits blow up or get invaded by aliens, but that's a whole other thing.
"in accepting patriarchal-capitalist structures Marlene must accept her life activity as a commodity with the concomitant dehumanization that ensues."
... 'Rules and regulations' is not in fact an explanation for a hell of a lot. Especially if you're the boss, since generally the boss does the rule making. And especially especially if the entire work ethic of the organisation seems to be about going :-p to the rules.
"in accepting the self-evacuation necessary to achieve and maintain success in the patriarchal-capitalist system Marlene must resign herself to the estranged relations with others that result from her own estranged labor. From this vantage point the price of success for Marlene appears incredibly high and demonstrates that, in the process of obtaining success in this system, she not only participates in it by oppressing others but becomes a victim of its oppression as well."
work leaves no room for life. or children. muchly familiar from many many places.
and yet writing work+life+children=super(wo)man, which is a sort of damaging myth too, since it hides the tensions and sets an unachievable standard.
I have more headache and the world is going shiny. I'm going to attempt to finish reading before I have to give up on the day.
... people have fun with titles.
"Directing theater as if gender and race matter"
sounds interesting
I'm only the second person to ever take it out our library, and the first was in 2005. I find this vaguely depressing. Maybe a lot of other people read photocopies.
quoteage:
"Hartsock sees the capitalist system as a set of power relations revolving around the buyer and seller as points of reference. This buyer and seller need on another to survive but at the same time seek to consume one another, a relation that alienates one from the other."
1 - meat!
2 - aliens + alien hunters = alienation
... my brain, it is not quite like the brains of others.
I was thinking though, we're reading Top Girls and so far the critical stuff has concentrated a lot on the bit at the start when people from all through history get together and have dinner. Apparently in mundane world this Needs Explaining. I just kind of figured holodeck / time travel / seance (/ hallucination) and ignored it, because the how don't figure into the story, so why worry?
Which made me think that all this stuff they keep saying is cool about TG, about constellations of history, could be said about Doctor Who. I mean, not all of it, because they didn't usually sit around getting very drunk and talking about babies. But there was unexpected clothing combinations and a lot of mashing history together.
And, okay, having bits blow up or get invaded by aliens, but that's a whole other thing.
"in accepting patriarchal-capitalist structures Marlene must accept her life activity as a commodity with the concomitant dehumanization that ensues."
... 'Rules and regulations' is not in fact an explanation for a hell of a lot. Especially if you're the boss, since generally the boss does the rule making. And especially especially if the entire work ethic of the organisation seems to be about going :-p to the rules.
"in accepting the self-evacuation necessary to achieve and maintain success in the patriarchal-capitalist system Marlene must resign herself to the estranged relations with others that result from her own estranged labor. From this vantage point the price of success for Marlene appears incredibly high and demonstrates that, in the process of obtaining success in this system, she not only participates in it by oppressing others but becomes a victim of its oppression as well."
work leaves no room for life. or children. muchly familiar from many many places.
and yet writing work+life+children=super(wo)man, which is a sort of damaging myth too, since it hides the tensions and sets an unachievable standard.
I have more headache and the world is going shiny. I'm going to attempt to finish reading before I have to give up on the day.