tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54055976666232412402011-07-30T11:39:40.277-07:00Canonball explores theory from many different perspectives, but particularly through literature. With an aim to be accessible to everyone, Canonball seeks to engage everyone in theory rather than just folks in the ivory tower.canonballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16503514709233083045noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5405597666623241240.post-37124967876691223912009-10-13T07:30:00.001-07:002009-10-13T07:30:01.311-07:00

I am reading The Book of Salt by Monique Truong right now.  So far I am in love with it.

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because someone questioned the security of my gender/sexuality at my schooland i promptly filled out a butthurt report form

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The Little Professor wrote a text adventure for those reading Victorian religious fiction.  Agh, it's hiliarious--I should write about about The Lamplighter...here's a short part:"> read publisherSmart move! PUBLISHERS who brought out religious fiction among their offerings often carved out their own little theological fiefdoms.  For example, a NOVEL published by CHARLES DOLMAN, BURNS AND OATES,

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Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish. Pantheon, 1977.

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It's the Panopticon! As the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks notes, does the implied surveillance cause self-disciplining in this parking lot?

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I finished my prospectus for my senior thesis--here's the slightly raw version, so please excuse grammar/language errors.In mid-nineteenth century America, among the most popular works of fiction were novels like Maria Cummins’s The Lamplighter that depicted the of an ambiguously raced and classed orphaned girl into a properly Christian white middle class woman. Critics such as Nathanial

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Hawthorne by Henry JamesSensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane TompkinsWoman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels By and About Women in America, 1820-1870 by Nina Baym (whom I have the biggest crush on)The Masochistic Pleasure of Sentimental Literature by Marianne NobelIntimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio and Estelle B.

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ICHC.  I don't think they meant it as a means of destroying the canon.

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Over at Cake Wrecks, they offer up this postmodern pear.Today, Uruguay passed some legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.If I were still in Austin (tears everywhere!), I'd be going to go see Terry Galloway read from her book Mean Little Deaf Queer. She's reading at Bookwoman and Cactus Cafe. Go see her! Check out the Austinist page about it!

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Here's what you have to look forward to:CHAUCER EXTRAVAGANZAThe Lamplighter ReduxHawthorne, James, Cather, Chesnutt, and WhartonSome more feminist theory...Could I have these socks right now??They're from AshiDashi. 

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This is quickly becoming my favorite bean recipe.In other news, I'm going to take a short break from this blog.  It's the end of the summer and I need a few days to get it all together before I go back to school.  I appreciate those of you who have started reading regularly and I hope to have some more meaty (or tempeh-y) posts when I get back to school and start Foucaulting full time again.Also

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The Texas Library Association is putting out a calendar of their tattoed lady librarians to benefit the TLA's disaster relief fund--a lot of money is still needed to clean up after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Man, I want to get a tattoo at a library conference.Also, isn't this quilt beautiful?  I think I will make it--it is relatively easy.From here.

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Via loltheorists.Pie lollipops from Luxirare!!Also, The Guardian ran an article about books about biking/cycling.

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Over at Below the Belt, some really great ideas were raised about parenting gender-variant kids.  It's something I think about a lot, particularly because I want to raise children. "Raising children in this world is a battle when you start to see things from this angle. Most parents don’t realize what they’re in for until they have a gender-variant kid, because they effectively are pointed at and

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Tapestry Humor--via El Si but I think it's from somewhere else first.

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Via Strange Maps.

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Sotomayor was backed by the Senate committee--on to the rest of the Senate!via LA Times.

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A literary map of San Franciscovia SFGate

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I swear, half of the Daily Mail stories are about weird and/or cute animals.  I love how there's a subtextual dialogue of "OMG WE CAN'T BELIEVE A BOYYYY LIKES THIS LITTLE HORSE."I can't get pictures in right now, so make sure to go look, you'll be glad you did.

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Good morning, all--I just moved and was too tuckered out yesterday to really make any progress on anything writing or reading related. So here's what I was reading this morning...The British Government released new tips for pregnant women to avoid H1N1 flu. Considering that I've been watching The Tudors on Netflix the past few days, H1N1 flu seems to be the new sweating sickness.Questioning

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The Fort Worth mayor finally apologized for the the raid on Fort Worth gay bars on the night of the anniversary of Stonewall.  Read about it over at 365 Gay.

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via UnshelvedGay penguins, of course, cause irreparable harm.

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Rachel Maddow basically proves that Pat Buchanan is super racist, in this case about Sotomayor.

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Oh, Marlene...Dorothy Surrenders featured Marlene Dietrich, whom I love, for Gender Fuck Thursday today.Kristine at Serendipities noted that the BBC's In Our Time recently did a segment on revenge tragedies. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford should be required reading, in my opinion.According to the Library Journal, Ohio libraries will lose 30% of the state's support.Boing Boing notes that

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As someone who wants to be a librarian and who will attend future ALA conferences, it makes me nervous that you decided to bring someone who works for the David Horowitz Freedom Center for a roundtable titled "Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping."Seriously folks? Not the best move.Library Journal reports here and here.

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I love Sonia Sotomayor!image via Shakesville and Associated PressFrom Cute Overload: “Noah is a non-releasable, one-legged homing pigeon/rock dove that is in the rehab center. Noah kept going over to the bunny cage and looking in—even sleeping in front of the door to the cage.”Idea Kitteh, ICHCOh, Judy B. Via Loltheorists. As my friend so brilliantly said, "LOLTHUSSER."

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So the cisgender debacle continues to rage, and I wanted to quote two articles that I think really sum up the most cogent things to consider.Monica over at TransGriot noted that: "Cisgender is a neutral term that doesn't have the negative accumulated baggage of being used to 'other' or used as a rallying cry by the Forces of Intolerance to oppress someone's human rights rights like trans

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Did you know that men’s shirts button left to right and women’s garments button right to left? This is a prime example of social construction. Havelock Ellis went so far to say in Women and Men that women were physically weak, and because of that needed help dressing, so their garments are harder to button if you’re right handed.Why is this a good example? Well,1) There is absolutely no good

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I shot the Serif, link here.via Tom GauldProud to be an "American," over at the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation MarksI have familial obligations this Thursday, so here we go a little sooner!Tamara Nopper wrote over at Everyday Sociology about the Black/Non-Black divide that happens on Top Chef. Essentially, the (overwhelming number of) white chefs on the show are never asked to cook "their

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I really do not understand the resistance to the word/prefix 'cis.' However, as it showed up in my post about cis as an academic term as well as current leveling at Pam's House Blend, apparently lots of (cis) people think it is a big deal. Here is the argument I see most often leveled against it, with my corresponding this-is-why-your-logic-doesn't-work responses:"I didn't choose to be called cis

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I've been trying to find other blogs out there with relatively the same bent as my own. Today I stumbled up on The Academic Blog Portal, so I thought I would share it with you, since it's kind of what I was looking for. I sort of blanch at the thought of theory=academic, as that's sort of the antithesis of this blog, but you know. Take what you can get.

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I thought I'd write a quick post about this, because someone's search engine query brought them this way, and I don't think that anything I've written so far really answers it.The way that I've encountered the concept of social construction is that, basically, things like rocks and humus and earthworms are not socially constructed, while things like washing machines, gender, and sex are. What

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Hey folks, a short Thursday Theory so I can break down some Foucault stuff.Over at US Food Policy, we learned the following: "The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the planting of GE alfalfa can cause potentially irreversible harm to organic and conventional crops. Monsanto’s petition to rehear was denied in full." Take that multinational food companies! Oh, yeah, I think I'm going to

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Folks, I'm sorry that I didn't post a Theory Thursday last week, and also for not, well, really posting at all. I've been at work an awful lot, and preparing for testy stuff, as well as trying to some more personal writing.To make up for it, today's Theory Thursday will be super long.News of the Fucked UpResist Racism wrote about the terrible fucked-up way we do health care for American Indians

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Oh, y'all, I promise that sometime soon I will write an actual blog post. I'm a few dozen pages into The History of Sexuality Vol I so you'll get some deconstruction of that soon. I've just been working a lot and reading a lot; summer is harder than I thought.Harvard endowed a chair for "gay studies" (emphasis on that it's called gay studies, for crying out loud--that's so 1992). Harvard is

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C'eci ne pas un half-pipe over at Cute OverloadMik over at Coffee and Gender wrote about Kate Bornstein's new TransMentors program. Basically, it's a place where trans folks can turn to other trans folks for support, advice, and mentoring. Mik sums it up pretty well, sayingToo many transpeople rely on the advice of cisgender specialists to guide them - therapists, doctors, psychiatrists all

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LolFoucault, Panopticon divisionvia tn_jackrabbit at LOLTHEORISTS lj groupSignifer/Signified? And the importance of underpunctuationover at Cake Wrecks!In Austin they recently held the 32nd annual O. Henry pun-off.In Canonball news, I'm starting History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 today for my senior thesis, so you'll get to go along with me on that trip. I'll keep you updated; I'll also be

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This summer is shaping up really well--I have a lot to do to prepare for my BA thesis next semester, I'm going to revise my Butler paper, and I'm going to try to blog here more frequently. As I delve into theory more and more, I realize that I need to go back and read the stuff I really don't want to read, namely all the old white guys. But it will be okay, we'll survive together.Here's my

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A central question that I have as I delve into theory is the concept of “academic language.” As I mentioned in my previous two posts, academic language is divisive and convoluted. But I think there is another piece of the puzzle into which I really want to dig deeper—what does it mean to write a theorist, a branch of theory, or a whole community off as being too academic?A few weeks ago,

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time to go to bed when you write: "By identifying Orlando's gender neutral clothing as Turkish, the narrator wraps up her switch in gender in colonialist pants."

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I’m reading Sara Salih’s Judith Butler, a condensed translation of Butler’s ideas that my queer theory professor recommended to me a long time ago. I’m getting ready to write a paper using some Butler to talk about Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. I’m pretty effing excited about it and I will be sure to explore my ideas here with you, but I have to get them first, and I also have to understand Judy

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A lot of people hate theory. And I know why they do, as I used to hate it. I thought that theory was classist drivel, not important for living, and furthermore really snobby. It definitely can be—or actually I should say that people who do theory definitely can be. But that doesn’t mean that theory itself is terrible, pointless, a waste of time. That just means that people who do theory in a

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