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		<title>Will Lovecraft ever be feared again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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H.P. Lovecraft’s “Statement of Randolph Carter” meant to instill dread and fear into his readers hardly managed a blip on our scare-o-meter when we discussed Lovecraft a few weeks ago in class. Some of us agreed that certain parts of his two stories were a tad unsettling, but in all, had no particular dreadful or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=351&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Borges and his Infinite Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my last post I want to comment on two of Borges’s short stories “The Library of Babel” and “The Book of Sand”. I realize we didn’t read any Borges this semester, at least, I don’t think we did; but I do love his writings and think he is an extremely interesting modern writer. Reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=353&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Ever Happened To Harley Warren?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, “The Statement of Randolph Carter,” is rife with similar modernist themes to those which we have discussed throughout the term, such as the pursuit of knowledge and the exploration of the unknown. The latter is especially important since Freudian psychoanalysis runs throughout the story. I’d argue that Lovecraft’s “The Statement of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=334&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEW GBLS COURSES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drsteer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
I&#8217;ll be teaching two new courses next year. Both are crosslisted with Liberal Arts (formerly GBLS, now called LART) and Visual Arts.  I hope some of you will be able to take these course.  They will be interesting!
VISA / LART 3V96
Imitation in Art and Culture
(also offered as STAC 3V96)
Imitation in Western visual art and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=358&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equal Opportunity and Lateral Distribution of Power &#8211; Do we have Democracy Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarahlepp</dc:creator>
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I find the power dynamic explained by Bentham’s Panopticon as well as Foucault’s opening on the plague in the 17th century very interesting. The explanation Foucault’s gives concerning the power dynamic and control within a town consumed by the plague is much the same as kingdoms controlled by a head patriarch or matriarch. The actions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=349&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Rights &#8211; Emotion Vs. Logic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee presents, what I think of as, the better arguments for animal rights. I do not believe that there is any actual logical argument against either the eating of meat or cruelty of animals in general. Every argument for animal rights is essentially an appeal to emotion, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=323&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Intellectualism in Steppenwolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf has many interesting ethical insights. One of the most interesting is the notion that intellectualism can actually be a harmful endeavour. There is a specific quote from the book, that the Steppenwolf himself seems to be interested in, that goes “Most men will not swim before they are able to… They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=321&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8216;Hell&#8217; Really Other People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit deals with one of the most interesting philosophical issues: the other. The play takes place in hell where the main characters are locked in a room together. As each of the characters back-stories are revealed their relationships with one another become increasingly more strained, eventually culminating in the attempted stabbing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=316&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance of Things Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelpavan</dc:creator>
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Remembrance of things past – Proust

Remembrance of things past has a flow to it. The flow comes from seemingly separate events that melt into one, and the melting of words to create a picture of reality. This flow is what attracted me to the novel. There is a unity to the novel, where it feels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=306&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lives of Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lives of Animals – Coetzee

Animal ethics has been getting a lot of limelight recently. Philosophers have recently been tackling the issue of whether animals should be objects of our moral concern. The issue rightfully deserves the attention it is getting; if animals should be objects of our moral concern then our treatment of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernityseminar.wordpress.com&blog=2454413&post=304&subd=modernityseminar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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