Nota bene:

• The Gotta Study Icon takes you to the Index of Jeanne's classes - Preparations.

• The "Birdie" Icon takes you to the Table of Contents Index for Journal Issues. The "Birdie" Index will eventually be the contents minus the announcements for classes. Hopefully, it will be less confusing to those not sharing our classes. We have just begun the process of separating the two. jeanne, April 2001.

• Discussion Topics and Painting Topics Posted!
• Grades: How Am I Doing So Far?
• Information for Understanding the Structurally Violent Teachers
  of Our Children

Field Trips:

• On Globalization and the Condition of Labor
  April 26 and 27, 2001
  University of California, Irvine
  Humanities Instructional Building 135
  

  Bobbi Martin wants to go. Others? Pat?

  This conference will have speakers from most of the UC's in the area. You are invited. And it's free. Please let me know if you're interested in attending. jeanne

Art We've Been Studying and Painting:

• Jean-Michel Basquiat and Critique by cavan wee. "If Cy Twombly and Jean Dubuffet had a baby and gave it up for adoption, it would be Jean-Michel."
• Hyped to Death The NY Times 1998 review of Basquiat's life. Large collection of black and white images. And first two chapters of Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art online through this NY Times piece.
• 20th Century Chinese Art : Traditionalism meets Modernism by cavan wee. As we consider learning to dance lightly with one another, it behooves us to look at the transitions in each culture, including the transition to Postmodernism. Discussion questions up soon!

You Gotta Read This!

• lingling Ubuweb site. This section of the site is definitely dark humor, so don't take the children there. There's an occasional variation on the F word, but not a lot. Mostly it speaks of the life of the streets. Link to the found and insane dialog box by clicking on the little down arrow. Then click on one of the found visual poems, and, when it's highlighted, press Enter. DO NOT start this if you have homework! Discussion Question: What do these found poems tell us about the dominant discourse on the streets of New York City?

  For partial restoration of your sanity, now's the time to read (re-read) Tim Wise's The Trouble with Tolerance

Shared Readings: Languages Other Than English:

• Identidad, lengua y globalización por Juan Duchesne Winter. "Gracias a la globalización las subculturas juveniles y no tan juveniles del reggae, el rock y la salsa, junto a sus estilos y sensibilidades característicos trazan mapas que incluyen a Kingston, San Juan, Hartford, París, Barcelona, Johanesburg en Africa y Tokio."

• Escritor, idioma, literatura: "defensas" que no ayudan por Juan Duchesne Winter. "El autor del artículo tilda de "absurdos" toda una serie de aspectos que no se ajustan al panorama estrecho de su visión conservadora. Comenta que tan absurdo es incluir la obra puertorriqueña de la diáspora en nuestra literatura como incluir la de los autores chicanos en la literatura méxicana. Resulta que no es tan obvio ese supuesto "absurdo", ni en el caso puertorriqueño ni en el mexicano."

Shared Online Readings: English

• The Other Side of the Wall: Prisons and Prison Law Considerable material on major issues of importance in criminal justice today. Focus on California Prisons. Includes poetry by prisoners.

• Political Podium by Edward Kent. Review of Habermas': Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. A few typos result in misspellings. Be alert to them. Quotes Cass Sunstein's review in the New York Times Book Review, with an understandable definition of ideal speech situation, of "liberal". Link supplied by Martin Ryder's Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought

• The Net Proves Mightier than the Sword for Zapatistas "After nearly two years of negotiations with the government, Subcomandante Marcos has come to rely more and more on worldwide public opinion as the story of the Chiapas Mayans is publicized on the Net."

• Britannica Article on Subcommandante Marcos

  Marcos and the Zapatistas: Notes on anachronism and innovation in Latin American revolutionary culture by Juan Duchesne-Winter.

  
  Juan Duchesne-Winter. It links to what I suspect is a self portrait. jeanne

• Poesia Visual by Juan Duchesne-Winter. Be sure to link to Algunas poemas visuales, the series of images, apparently by his students.

  Then, for a wry commentary on the streets of New York City, go to the following link to what Duchesne-Winter calls an Excelente sitio sobre poesia visual y aural: ubuweb. Fascinating site to which we will return as we discuss the social meaning of art as expression. In this connection, be sure to read bell hooks' piece on Basquiat.

Teaching Essays:

• Is It Empowerment? If No Agency? Includes essay by James Herrick, D.S.W.
• Definitions of Concepts for Democratizing Democracy "ideal speech situatiion," "liberal," Habermas. Fairly clear definitions by Cass Sunstein.
• JAC interview with bell hooks Discussion questions up soon. "Altars of Sacrifice: Remembering Basquiat."
• We Are Always More Than Our Pain: Beyond Basquiat By bell hooks
• Review of a 1998 book on bell hook's engaged pedagogy by Adam S. Meyer, Department of English, Ball State University. " What makes hooks' works so rich is her use of the contextual and personal. If Namulundah had adopted hooks' more "anti-ivory tower" approach of sharing personal experience within a specific societal context, then her comments could be read as part of an ongoing discussion of hooks' works. Instead, Namulundah leaves the impression of an academic summarizing and "commending" hooks. Even a perfunctory reading of hooks would lead a reader to conclude that Namulundah writes hooks into the decontextualized, academic space that hooks objects to so strongly in the first place."
• fueling the bonfire: gender wars Does a comparison of Foucault and Chomsky. Good review in layman's language, for theory class. By Patrick Jennings, a travel author.
• The Frankfort School and the Imaginary
• Giddens: Beyond Left and Right

Research Papers in Preparation:

• ASA Panel Presentations American Sociological Association, National Meetings, Anaheim, August 2001.
• Western Social Science Association Panels in Reno, in April 2001.
• American Society of Criminology, National Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2001. Transforming the imaginary

References

• Communist Voice: a magazine of revolutionary theory
• The UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource
• Critical Theory Institute Scroll about a third of the way down the file to find Research Project: "The Forces of Globalization" (1995-1998). Link to Corporate for a file on explanations of for descriptions of the corporate, cultural, technological, and environmental networks.
• Postcolonial References