READ THIS: PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS: please take these seriously: they are an important part of your participation in the class. Your job when you present is to lead the discussion on the reading for that day. You may bring in some research, but most of all, you should be very well-prepared with insights, interpretations, and questions about the reading at hand. You may want to begin by summarizing the progress of the plot represented by the excerpt assigned on that day. Then you should have passages picked out for the class to discuss. You may want to be ready, also, with the posts for the day (you can copy and paste them and print them out). The purpose of the presentation is to give more responsibility to the classmembers and de-center the discussion a little bit (although I will still chime in). Here are your assignments, mostly random. 1. Wed. 3/30 Small Things, 84-147, Eidia. 2. 4/4 Small Things, 148-225, Hannah. 3. 4/6 Small Things, ending, Anna. 4. 4/11 Ondaatje, Dan. 5. 4/13 Mukherjee, Michael. 6. 4/18 Poppies, 3-87, Karol. 7. 4/20 Poppies, 88-156, Jason. 8. 4/25 Poppies, 157-226, Joe. 9. 4/27, Poppies, 227-342, Will. 10. 5/2 Poppies, 343-446, Rachel. 11. 5/4 Poppies, finish, Jane.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

More on Midnight's Children

I found this article in seed magazine and think that it pertains to Rushdie's book. The basic premise is that the writer of the article cannot reconcile how modern the Buddhist view of the brain is and how it matches the neuroscience of today. I think that his knowledge of Buddhism is limited but the article definitely made me think of Rushdie's fragmented characters and how they are fragments loving fragments. If the Lacan and Turing measure intelligence by a sort of mirror test than our measurement of intelligence is the ability to perceive an illusory persona and even create that persona (and that sounds like psychosis to me).

Buddhism and the brain
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