Not Outside the Text

Not Outside the Text:
A Graduate Colloquium in Textual Studies


Saturday, December 9, 1995 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Van Nuys, California

A Colloquium for Students of CSUN Speech Communication 604
Seminar in Textual Studies



The Politics of Spectacularization and the Spectacularization of Politics

Kurt Lowry, "From Scourge to Sage, Spectacle to Spectre: The Rise of the Proletariat from Capitalism to Communism"

Shannon Feeback, "The Punk Invasion: The Meaning Behind the Spectacle"

Dianne Davis, "Viva Las Vegas!: A Commercialized Means to a Mindless End"

Violence, Representation, and the Silver Screen

Chris Skiles, "Schizophrenic Containment in the Discourse of Inner City Representations: The Construction of Hubris as Reality in Boyz N the Hood and Menace to Society."

Skye MacPherson, "A Vision of Corporate Colonization: Individuality versus the System, as Performed in Rollerball"

Queer and Loathing: Rhetorical Figurations of Sacred and Profane

Hope Angeline, "Buyer Beware: The Power, Pleasure, and Pain of Pornography"

Daniel Makagon, "Perverts and Preachers: An Analysis of Anti-Homosexual Rhetoric in the Bible"

Aesthetic Performance and Resistance: From Theory to Practice

Jon Torn, "AVANT-POP: The Program for Libidinal Detournement"

The "Avant-Pop" program of writing resistance to popular culture is theorized as a libidinal detourning response to the creation of an "Avant=Pop" self by mass media. These qualities of self are seen as (1) syncretic (Ono & Sloop) (2) virtual (Deleuze & Guattari), and (3) cyborg (Haraway).

Marcy Chvasta, "Seeing is Believing and Other Trite yet Revolutionary Thoughts"

"Man," "Woman," "Nature," and "Culture": Subjectivity at Centers and Margins

Carla Swift, "Transformation of Dominant Ideology into Cultural Mythology."

Monica Turner, "The Dissection of Man"

Jessica Brow, "Technoculture: Cyborgs in the Age of Feminism"


Modified by: Ben Attias
Institution: California State University, Northridge
Modification Date: Wednesday, December 6, 1995
Modification Time: 1:42 AM
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