Queerness in India (Revised digital story) by Rajorshi Das

Week 10 - Mengmeng

I am too interested in the entanglement of black masculinity and black feminism in hooks and Hall's conversation. It seems like a tireless demand that Black women have to choose between race or gender, never just their own needs. The reluctance to engage with feminist thoughts by Black women and men seems to do with an obligation of racial loyalty, and insecurity of masculinity and blackness. I am inspired by Thelma's post about the recent event between Chris Rock, Will Smith and Jada. There are so many questions and intersectional complications to unpack, which I hope we can do in class!!!

digital story - darryl

I was trying something far too ambitious with this and, thus, it doesn't really work for this assignment. I 'll try something different over/after break, but I put a lot of work into this, so this is what you get for now: [edit: the sound sliders wouldn't work on the initial version, so let's try this one!] https://www.wevideo.com/view/2602309192

On Journals and Prose

My two questions from this week have emerged from the Judith Butler piece, A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back , both centered around the journal, Philosophy and Literature —which Butler describes as the self-proclaimed “arbiter of good prose.” I agree with Butler’s staunch defense of questioning common sense and provoking “new ways of looking at a familiar world”, and was reminded of David Harvey’s quote in the introduction to his Companion to Marx’s Capital : “Real learning always entails a struggle to understand the unknown.” Butler describes Philosophy and Literature as a “culturally conservative academic journal” which naturally led me down a longer-than-anticipated visit to the journal's website . I was greeted with a video presented by the Philosophy and Literature’s editor Garry L. Hagberg, who rails against the “jargon infested” work that litters the journal’s field, locating Philosophy and Literature in clear opposition to such bothersome clutter. However, Hagberg’s

Stuart Hall 2022 Seminar

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