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Depictions of violence as "sexy", "arousing" etc- what's going on here?
Taking my queue from the growth of Kill Bill style "sexy fighting" in culture, questions about sex and violence
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:51 01.11.06
Politics of white adoption of dreadlocks
Results of colonization, importance of hairstyles, commodification
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 77 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:48 30.10.06
The Gaze: looking and being looked at is not the same as being seen
"The concept of gaze is one that deals with how an audience views other people presented. This concept is extended in the framework of feminist theory." Veiling, hijab, sexual harrassment, dominant gaze/male gaze, adverts
:: STARTED BY XK
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:22 27.10.06
How do we feel about personal debt?
What are people’s attitudes to personal debt? Does it matter? Where does it end? How does it tie in to attitudes and activities in society? Is it actually just a great equaliser giving those with less greater access to what only those with more would once have had?
:: STARTED BY Tabitha Tickletooth
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:03 24.10.06
"Crazy chic:" pop culture making illness a fashion statement
Spurred by a Policy conversation, an inquiry about the societal fascination/repulsion relationship with mental illness.
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
:: 87 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:41 19.10.06
Pornography vs. Erotica vs. Art
where do you draw the lines? are there really lines to be drawn? is it possible for a work to discuss sex intelligently and meaningfully while still being arousing? a place to discuss the exploration of sexuality in literature, film, and art.
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:31 19.10.06
How Long Has The World Been Ending?
Apocalypsoluza, crisis over infinite cultures, is it just the death of the individual magnified to a social group level?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:01 06.10.06
Value of Truth
Who cares if you're wrong?
:: STARTED BY Foust is SO authentic
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:07 03.10.06
The Catholic Mess - the ideological and practical issues of the modern Catholic Church
As a topical issue, what is the largest Christian church doing with itself? Is it a force for good, should it be a force for good, and what does it need to change to be etc.
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:41 19.09.06
True transsexualism— authenticity and transness
true transsexuality, untrue transsexuality; who is authentically trans*?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:01 15.09.06
Identity. Uh. What is it GOOD for? (Say it again!)
A thread about identity (not ME, people! get with it!) and its uses, misuses, and abuses. Is it good to have "identity"? Why?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:48 13.09.06
Trans men/women and men/women are/are not the same
Yet another gender and gender variance thread. Are you tired of them yet? HAH! HAHAH! You FOOLS! I will NOT BE STOnyarghaghgetthemoffohgod
Keywords: transness, gender categories, gender variance, transgender, FTM, MTF, OMG, WTF
:: STARTED BY *
:: 187 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:52 12.09.06
False Images Of Oz (in British advertising and culture)
How people in the UK see Australia; see colonialism, racism, signifiers and signifieds.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 40 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:43 11.09.06
Concept Interrogation: Civil Liberties
When is it useful to talk about 'civil liberties'? And why?
:: STARTED BY nighthawk
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:09 06.09.06
Internet Power Dynamics
Discussion relating to power dynamics on message boards, and in the world at large. Warning: Identity politics, feminism, egalitarianism, queer theory, anti-racism, basic anti-oppression.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 31 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:56 30.08.06
Experience and empathy
A thread for discussing the value of experience and the usefulness of empathy in making arguments, especially in the context of Barbelith.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:31 25.08.06
Deleuze - Notes and Queries
I'm currently struggling through Deleuze and Guatari's 'Anti-Oedipus' and there are a number of things about it I have real problems with and I'm wondering if anyone can help me with
:: STARTED BY No star here laces
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:23 14.08.06
Seminal works in contemporary theory and philosophy
Help me compose a reading list!
:: STARTED BY Jesse
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:34 13.08.06
The politics of "human capital" policy reform
In Australia at the moment the state and federal governments have committed to a new wave of economic reform that focusses on 'human capital' as the way to maintain economic growth. Is this a clever way to get governments to take social policy seriously, or dodgy way to make us work harder for longer?
:: STARTED BY sorenson
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:02 09.08.06
Feminism and sexist culture
How to approach culture that is (or has elements) of sexism, or, in fact, anything objectionable.
:: STARTED BY Jester
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:14 03.08.06
Help with formatting proposal and other academic nuts and bolts questions
Thing is, I need help with formatting an proposal. Haven't done one in this field in years and want to get it right. So, thought I'd expand the topic into a 'practical nuts and bolts' of doing academic work/talking shop thread.
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:00 02.08.06
The Intricacies of Degradation
Degradation, BDSM, the pure, filth, meaning, transcendence, pathology, psychology, Lord Fanny, deconstruction, etc etc.
:: STARTED BY Leidan
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:36 01.08.06
Fair Trade and Ethical Shopping
Or perhaps 'Fair' Trade and 'Ethical' Shopping. Why are moral terms used to describe these activities?
:: STARTED BY nighthawk
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:53 29.07.06
But I'm on your *side*.....or, why clever people can't be racist.
Meditations on the awkward questions of cultural tourism and cultural patronage, and how the concepts of racism, and subsequently of whatever other "-ism", including sexism and homophobia interact with self-perceptions and self-presentations. Key questions that recur are "can acts be separated from people", and "what is it to be a 'good person' in these terms, and is it a defence or a prevention, a regimen or an essential characteristic", but the focus is pretty loose.
:: STARTED BY Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
:: 164 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:32 27.07.06
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Request for information please.
:: STARTED BY Dark side of the Moonfrog1
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:40 26.07.06
Therapeutic and alternative communities
the Atlantis Commune- thoughts?
:: STARTED BY foolish fat finger
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:12 20.07.06
Women and men are not the same. shock horror. the tale that can't be told...
the paper that science rejects...
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:40 20.07.06
Concept interrogation: "A Clash of Cultures"
A thread where we look at a phrase or concept and analyse it
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:48 19.07.06
A thread about ‘recovery’
Is it necessary to know everything about the past? Can one live with unanswered questions? And fear, too, of discovery; of what one might find hidden.
:: STARTED BY Twice
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:57 19.07.06
Why isn't sexuality a paraphilia?
If you can't get off without a specific object, act or body part you have a paraphilia. If you can't get off without a partner of a specific gender you have a sexuality. Why is there a distinction?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:49 17.07.06
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