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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Ideology

Sunday, December 23, 2007

I’ve read a number of assignments and papers from students in all three of my courses who insist on using the term “ideology” or “ideological” or “ideologies.” This is rather puzzling. While I discussed the Marxist concept of the social formation (in rather simple terms of “the mode of production + the ideological superstructures”) in [...]

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Women as Weapons of War

Monday, December 10, 2007

“Exclusive” to Theoria (and Long Sunday) – an excerpt (courtesy of the publishers) from Kelly Oliver’s recent book, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (Columbia UP, 2007).
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded
as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be
used as [...]

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Remembering Mickey (December 9, 2006)

Sunday, December 9, 2007
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Musical Friday

Friday, December 7, 2007

I can’t believe the following two things: (1) that I would actually like something involving John Mayer and (2) that this song is a “bonus track” and not an actually part of Kanye West’s recent album, Graduation. To my ears, it is, by far, the stand-out track on the album. Unfortunately its language is not [...]

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06/12/1989

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte

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