Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Edbauer - unframing ---late----
While reading this article, I am reminded of a discussion I often have with my friends; Austin vs. Dallas. The city that I grew up in and the city I now live in. On the surface these two cities would seem to have a lot in common, after all they are both in Texas. But the cities themselves are completely different in almost every way, except for the damn heat. The type of people who live in these cities is also different. Dallas seems to breed a ultra-conservative redneck-cum-millionaire. These people (and I can say this, because I am related to some of them) value status over happiness. Whereas Austinites (or transplants like myself) seem to lean left politically (at least a lot of them do) and value happiness over money.
The layout of the cities are different as well. Austin has a vibrant downtown, and an abundance of green space, whereas Dallas' downtown is good for business, and that's it(the downtown becomes a ghosttown at night).
Why are these two cities so geographically and environmentally similar, yet so culturally different? To quote Edbauer: "Place becomes a space of contacts, which are always changing and never discrete. The contact between two people on a busy city steet is never simply a matter of those two bodies; rather, the two bodies carry with them the traces of effects from whole fields of culture and social histories (10)".
I think that this helps explain how Dallas and Austin can be so different. Each city is built upon the "traces of effects from whole fields of culture and social history". But the question this leaves me with is this: Am I a different person, when I am in these different cities? Well if the transmission of affect is real, then yes, yes I am. (Incidentally I did vote for George Bush during my last year in Dallas; the year 2000).
The layout of the cities are different as well. Austin has a vibrant downtown, and an abundance of green space, whereas Dallas' downtown is good for business, and that's it(the downtown becomes a ghosttown at night).
Why are these two cities so geographically and environmentally similar, yet so culturally different? To quote Edbauer: "Place becomes a space of contacts, which are always changing and never discrete. The contact between two people on a busy city steet is never simply a matter of those two bodies; rather, the two bodies carry with them the traces of effects from whole fields of culture and social histories (10)".
I think that this helps explain how Dallas and Austin can be so different. Each city is built upon the "traces of effects from whole fields of culture and social history". But the question this leaves me with is this: Am I a different person, when I am in these different cities? Well if the transmission of affect is real, then yes, yes I am. (Incidentally I did vote for George Bush during my last year in Dallas; the year 2000).
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
final project idea
The King's Speech is almost unwatchable at times. Not because the movie is bad, actually quite the opposite the movie is amazing and justifiably won the Academy Award for best picture. No the movie is unwatchable because of the painful fits and starts of the king's ability to speek. He suffers a stammer that would be debilitating for any man, but is compounded by his royal bloodlines. I plan to do a rhetorical analysis of the King's Speech, using the ideas we have discussed in this class.
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