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Bodies : A Digital Companion
Main Menu
Why the Body?
an introduction to the digital companion
Embodiment
key concept
Cultural Norm
key concept
Bodily Difference
key concept
Stigma
key concept
Intersectionality
key concept
Body Image
Dr. Kristin Novotny, Professor COR 240-04/05
Spectral and Invisible Bodies
Dr. Veruska Cantelli, Assistant Professor
Visibility / Invisibility / Hypervisibility
Alice Neiley, Adjunct Professor
Radical Awakening
Faith Yacubian, Assistant Professor
Paleo
Erik Shonstrom, Assistant Professor
Borderlands
Dr. Patricia DeRocher
Walking
Dr. Katheryn Wright, Associate Professor (COR-240-03)
The Posthuman
Dr. Katheryn Wright, Associate Professor
Methodologies
This page contains links to short explanations of the different methodologies used to understand bodies and embodiment.
The Body Project
overview of the common assignment
Acknowledgements
a list of contributors to 'Bodies: A Digital Companion'
Katheryn Wright
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Kristin Novotny
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Rachel Jones, "Art Review: 'Interpose,' New City Galerie" (2017)
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Katheryn Wright
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An review of an art exhibition entitled "Interpose" at New City Galerie in Burlington, VT in the fall of 2017.
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Katheryn Wright
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The Body Project
overview of the common assignment
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Katheryn Wright
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The Posthuman: Introduction and Contents
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This page overviews "Bodies: The Posthuman" and provides content links and tags to readings/screenings.
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Natasha Lennard and Cary Wolfe, "Is Humanism Really Humane?"
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A New York Times interview with posthuman theorist, Cary Wolfe, published in January 2017.
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Why the Body?
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an introduction to the digital companion
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Embodiment
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key concept
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René Descartes, "Meditation on First Philosophy" (1641)
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Excerpts from Descartes' famous treatise about the distinction between the mind and body.
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N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (1999)
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The "Prologue," "Chapter One: Toward Embodied Virtuality," and "Conclusion" of an important book published by the University of Chicago Press that defines and contextualizes the figure of the posthuman in science and literature.
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How to Analyze a Video Game
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A short list of key things to consider when you're analyzing a video game.
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Deus Ex: GOTY Edition
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This is a link to download Deus Ex on gog.com. Click 'SOURCE' to go to the page and purchase.
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Deus Ex - Storyline Summary (Game Plot Dialogue)
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Ahead of time, if you have never played the game and don't want any spoilers turn the video off now and go play the game before you see this video! The game ...
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The Body Project
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overview of the common assignment
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Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1984)
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A canonical essay that explores the figuration of the cyborg as an epistemological and political position.
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Examined Life - Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor
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Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a social ...
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Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden - Part One (2017)
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The first part of this book overviews disability and animal studies. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden - Part Two (2017)
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This part focuses on the intersection of animal rights and disability activism. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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2017-08-26T12:10:35-07:00
Rachel Jones, "Art Review: 'Interpose,' New City Galerie" (2017)
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An review of an art exhibition entitled "Interpose" at New City Galerie in Burlington, VT in the fall of 2017.
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Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, "Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary/Introduction" in The Spectrality Reader (2013)
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Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature - Ch. 1 "Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature" (2004)
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The first chapter uses actor-network theory to understand the relationship between the human and nonhuman. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Alan Moore, 'Saga of the Swamp Thing'
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A link to Alan Moore's 'Saga of the Swamp Thing' where you can read the comic online for free.
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Andre-Naquian Wheeler, "Why Afrofuturism is the Art Movement We Need in 2017" (2017)
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An essay about afrofuturism with links to the artworks of six contemporary artists published by i-D (Vice).
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Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction
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Clips of Octavia Butler. For more about her, see http://OctaviaButler.net . This is from a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002, moderated by Arthur Cover. The full ...
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Necropolitics
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A discussion of four different arguments related to necropolitics on a blog by graduate student Laura Garrison.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 1)
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A brief summary of the first part of Rosa Braidotti's The Posthuman. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 2)
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A summary of the second part of Rosi Bradotti's The Posthuman on the Medium site, Open Objects. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 3)
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A summary of the third part of Rosi Bradotti's The Posthuman on the Medium site, Open Objects. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Steven Pokornowski, "Vulnerable Life: Zombies, Global Biopolitics, and the Reproduction of Structural Violence" (2016)
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This is a peer-reviewed academic article published in the journal 'Humanities' that analyzes the intersection of biopower, necropolitics, and critical race studies through the popular figure of the zombie.
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Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture" (2015)
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A journal article published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies defining and outlining the historical emergence of algorithmic culture.
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Katheryn Wright
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Walking: Introduction and Contents
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A brief introduction to the course that includes content links to required readings/screenings.
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Katheryn Wright
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Tom Shakespeare, "The Social Model of Disability" (2006)
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An article published in 'The Disability Studies Reader' about the social model of disability. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Kenny Cupers, "Walking as DIY Urbanism" (2004)
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An article about an urban art project engaging with walking practices published by Goldsmiths College research network.
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Charles Henry Alston, "Walking" (1958)
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A painting by Charles Henry Alston in the collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.
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Erin Wayman, "Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright" (2012)
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A Smithsonian magazine article about the theory of bipedalism in the context of human evolution.
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Joseph Amato, On Foot (2004)
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This book examines the history of walking, with a particular focus on Western European walking tradition. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Historical Body Mechanics: Walk Medieval!
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Recorded by Cornelius Berthold in the History Park Bärnau www.geschichtspark.de . Like all my videos, this presentation is ad-free, thanks to the generous ...
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Michel Foucault, "Docile Bodies" in The Foucault Reader (1991)
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An excerpt from Foucault's germinal monograph, Discipline and Punish (1977), about the individual and collective disciplining of bodies.
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Walking Artists Network
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The website for the Walking Artists Network. It includes resources and links to other relevant websites about walking as a mode of art practice.
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Walter Benjamin, "The Flaneur"
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A chapter on the figure of "the flaneur" written by the preeminent cultural critic, Walter Benjamin. The chapter is from 'Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism' (1997).
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Bobby Seal, "Baudelaire, Benjamin and the Birth of the Flâneur" (2013)
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An essay about the figure of the the Flâneur published in 'The Psychogeographic Review.'
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Le Flâneur: Benjamins Shadow
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Based on and inspired by the work of Walter Benjamin, this Danish documentary by Torben jensen is as much about the thinker as it is about Paris. A beautiful ...
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Michel Foucault "Disciplinary Power: Panopticism"
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Nicky Marshall's blog post about one of Michel Foucault's central concepts.
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Karen Offen, "The History of Feminism is a Political History" (2011)
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An essay published by the American Historical Association about the multiple political histories of feminist movements (challenges the 'wave' framework).
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Macat Analysis of Foucault's Discipline and Punish
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YouTube video that explains the concept of the "panopticon," "surveillance," and disciplinary society.
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Hamish Fulton Kent Walk series (2009-2010)
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This is a link to an art exhibition at Turner Contemporary featuring the "walking art" of Hamish Fulton.
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Judith Butler, "Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street" in eipcp, 2011
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Judith Butler on activism
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The Ten List: Walk as Art
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This is a website that offers a collection of walking artists (with links to websites and videos).
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Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors (1992)
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A canonical text by Augusto Boal (translated by Adrian Jackson) outlining exercises for Theatre of the Oppressed.
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Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
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The author's short description of 'Wanderlust' with links to buy the book.
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Rachel Jones, "Art Review: 'Interpose,' New City Galerie" (2017)
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An review of an art exhibition entitled "Interpose" at New City Galerie in Burlington, VT in the fall of 2017.
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2017-07-25T08:22:09-07:00
Katheryn Wright
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The Posthuman: Introduction and Contents
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This page overviews "Bodies: The Posthuman" and provides content links and tags to readings/screenings.
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Methodologies
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-allegory-of-the-cave-alex-gendler Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history's most famous thinkers, ...
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Abeba Birhane, "Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’" (2017)
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An essay published in Aeon examining the limitations of mind-body dualism as the defining component of man. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Noam Chomsky: The Anthropocene Period and its Challenges (2014)
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2014 Leigha Cohen Video Production http://www.leighacohenvideo.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/LeighaCohen For Noam Chomsky the edge is literal ...
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Ana Mendieta, "Earth Work 2" (1976)
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A performance-based "earth-body" artwork that is part of the Silueta series.
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Kira Hall, "Cyberfeminism"
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A book chapter outlining the major arguments of cyberfeminism drawing on the work of Donna Haraway.
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Rachel Jones, "Art Review: 'Interpose,' New City Galerie" (2017)
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An review of an art exhibition entitled "Interpose" at New City Galerie in Burlington, VT in the fall of 2017.
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Figure 1.3 in Bruno Latour's Politics of Nature
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A table from Bruno Latour's Politics of Nature (ch. 2) about different versions of the collective.
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Joseph Stromberg, "What is the Anthropocene and Are We in It?" (2013)
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A short article published by the Smithsonian that defines and introduces debates about the idea of the anthropocene. Check out the video at the end of the article for a good definition of the anthropocene, as well.
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Deus Ex - 15th Anniversary Documentary
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We look back on 15 years of Deus Ex with the original creators of the game, as well as the development team at Eidos-Montréal, currently working on Deus Ex: ...
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Claudia Dreifus, "This Stunning Contemporary Art Captures Terror, Wonder and Wit in the Anthropocene" (2015)
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A short article by the Smithsonian about art in the age of the anthropocene.
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The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human? - Alex Gendler
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-test-can-a-computer-pass-for-a-human-alex-gendler What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine ...
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Joan Slonczewski, "Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy: A Biologist’s Response" (2000)
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An essay that analyzes the scientific themes in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy.
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How the "Most Human Human" passed the Turing Test
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To prove he was human, Brian Christian competed against some of the world's most advanced AI. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu Brian Christian competed ...
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Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction
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Clips of Octavia Butler. For more about her, see http://OctaviaButler.net . This is from a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002, moderated by Arthur Cover. The full ...
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Exploring Sun Ra's Afrofuturism - DUST Afrofuturism Ep. 1
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Subscribe and watch more sci-fi DUST: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh Welcome to the first video in our 5 part original series Afrofuturism: Ep 1 Sun Ra. We need ...
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Karen Offen, "The History of Feminism is a Political History" (2011)
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An essay published by the American Historical Association about the multiple political histories of feminist movements (challenges the 'wave' framework).
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