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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 [...]

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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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