What's New?
For the Week of September 3, 2001

Teaching Essays
In Other Languages
Art and the Imaginary
Collaborative Writing Journal
Conflicts Around the World
Scholastic Resources
Lagniappe! You Gotta Read This!
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Gallery
Resource Pages:
. . . Criminology and Aging and Peacemaking and Theory
. . . and Women and Social Justice and Social Justice Issues and Writings
. . . and The Writer's Bookshelf and Poverty and Sociology of Law
Syllabi Instructions on How to Access Syllabi
Calls for Proposals: Conference and Article Plans
Kids' Site
What people are saying about Dear Habermas
Who To Take

.

.

Teaching Essays

Teaching and Review Essay Index

New This Week:

• Adversarialism and Mutuality Teaching essay on concepts that we will be using in all our classes. Based on Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama.

• Agency and Structural Context Teaching essay on concepts that we will be using in all our classes. Based on Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic's Constitutive Theory.

• Aesthetics and Communicating Across Racism Graduate Theory level articles, but teaching essay will clarify. Will include Foucault and a discussion of aesthetics and how aesthetics is involved in dominant discourse.

• Social Justice and Refugees ZMag Sustainers' commentary by Dr. Lynette Dumble. Essay depicting the difficulties faced by internally displaced persons and the callousness shown by those nations that could provide refuge.

• Rwanda: A New Imaginary Teaching essay on Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. Field trip to Vroman's in Pasadena next Monday when he appears on a book tour.

• Easing Censorship on the Networks. By Jim Rutenberg. September 2, 2001. p. A1. Issues of respect. Start of teaching essay and NY Times article up.

• Stretching the Bounds of Expression and Propriety Teaching essay on a consdieration of artists who have exceeded bounds of propriety and how that affects dominant discourse.

• The Death Penalty Debate An Open Society Institute Program of the Soros Foundation. Reappraising Death: The new debate over capital punishment. By Tanya E. Coke. ". . . victims do not uniformly support the death penalty . . ." Link to the article.

• Accountability and Privatization Essay based on the privatization attempts on social service delivery and the results to both policy and agenda.

• Zizek on the reductive reading of Lacan This is the first of a series of teaching essays on reductive reading. Just started.

• The Iron Cage of Bureaucracy: Weber Teaching essay and journal entry by Darby.

---

---

In Other Languages

• Andres Serrano "Es una costumbre en Serrano investigar el tema con una sucesión de imágenes que estan temáticamente relacionadas. Serrano insiste en examinar temas controversiales y poco agradables incluyendo representaciones religiosas, inhibiciones hacia los fluídos del cuerpo, racismo, el Ku Klux Klan y la injusticia con las personas sin casa."

---

---

Art and the Imaginary

Art as Healing

• Up soon.

Art as Expanding the Imaginary

Up soon.

Poets We Share

High Performance Poets: W. H. Auden, James Merrill, and Sylvia Plath read from their work in recordings previously unavailable The Atlantic Online. Audio.

Music We Share

• Jazz and Social Justice English version. See also Transcending Art and Peace (TAP).

Art You should Know

• Looking and Learning: Artworks from Los Angeles Museums

  • David Hockney's Pearblossom Highway. One Landscape, Many Views

• The Arts and the New Media Prof. James R. Beniger, USC. One of USC's Jumpstart Technology Programs. There is a wonderfully indexed library of images, a great practice test I didn't want to leave, and a syllabus that might explain to you that my huge syllabus is not so unusual in the 21st century with new media. This is a site you should explore.

  Look at Prof. Beniger's Outline for the 15 class meetings. I am positively green with envy. But please recall that he had a Jumpstart grant.

Artists You Should Know

• Jean-Michel Basquiat.

  • The September/October Calendar for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has Basquiat's Horn Players, (1983) on the cover. Full page print.

  • Art and Postcolonialism: Jean-Michel Basquiat

---

---

Collaborative Writing Journal

Current work in progress on teaching and review essays
by jeanne, Susan, Pat, et alia.

New additions this week:

• Not letting the dark side blind us Journal entry by Marvin Barrera, CSUDH. jeanne's comment: "a wonderful explanation of what the Dear Habermas site is trying to do."

• jeanne's lecture notes from Week of August 27, 2001

  • jeanne's lecture notes from Week of August 27, 2001. Added concepts: "paradigm shift" and "imaginary."

  • jeanne's lecture notes from Week of August 27, 2001. Added concepts: "enlightenment" and "dominant discourse."

• jeanne's lecture notes on Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) from Week of September 3, 2001.

• Crossing the Ocean, Crossing the Street Journal entry by jeanne on beginning of Berthena Kemp's MA Project on transforming discourse on ethnic relations in the world and in the local community.

• Sharing the Site from the Week of August 27, 2001 - Week 1 What others are reading and their questions and comments on their reading.
  • A Policeman Was Killed Today Entry by Nichole Williams
  • Is Habermas' View of the Enlightenment like Plato's? Entry by Bobi Lott
  • Outsider Theory-Expanding Public Discourse: Wow! Entry by Lisa J. Stevens

• Sharing the Site from the Week of September 3, 2001 - Week 2

  • Fellman's Paradigm Shift Entry by Bobi Lott.
  • The paradigm shift? Entry by Cheryl Spear
  • Where are the posted e-mail and lecture notes? Entry by Cheryl Spear
  • I FINALLY GOT IT! Entry by Sasha Shell
  • Now As a Goldfish Entry by Sasha Shell

• The Iron Cage of Bureaucracy: Weber Teaching essay and journal entry by Darby.

Conflicts Around the World: