Learning to Read
Leo is learning to read...
Don't Ask Me!
Consumer Retorts: Rants and Raves on the Business of Self- and Home-Improvement
- My own Iraq policy:
- iRefuse to worship the new iPhone
- wordless and powerless
- it's all about YOU -- NOT!!!
- socrates and the most important goal
- shameless self promotion and the mla
- u is for underwear
- The Bong Show
- D.I.Y. Arts Organization: DO try this at home
- Unneighborly conduct and anger management
Print Publications
Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton by Catherine Liu (2000)
Oriental Girls Desire Romance by Catherine Liu (novel, 1997)
[this recent dissertation discusses the novel]
Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory (2006), Afterword by Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu, Art Escapes Criticism, or Adorno's Museum Cultural Critique vol 60 (2005), 217-244
Catherine Liu, A Brief Genealogy of Privacy Grey Room (Spring 2004)
Catherine Liu, The Last Picture Show Aperture 175 (May 2004)
Catherine Liu, Lacan’s Afterlives: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Cambridge Companion to Lacan
(2003)
Catherine Liu, Lacanian Reception Lacan in America, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (The Other Press, 2000)
Catherine Liu, Getting to the Photo-Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity South Atlantic Quarterly 101:3 (October 2002)
Catherine Liu, Conspiracy (Theories) South Atlantic Quarterly 97:2 (Spring 1998)
The Abject, America ed. Catherine Liu (Lusitania 1:4, winter 1992)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, trans. Catherine Liu (2002)
Erotic Anger: A User's Manual by Gerard Pommier, trans. Catherine Liu (2001)
Catherine Liu, Saturday Night Fever or What is a Picture? Lacanian Ink 9 (winter 1995)
Catherine Liu, Telacan: Tiananmen Lacanian Ink 3 (spring 1994)
Suicide of an Assistant Professor by Catherine Liu (novel, not currently contracted)
4 Comments:
A child learning to read . . . that's a sight for sore eyes, especially since all I've done this morning is attend a slightly boring orientation for graduate students in Library Science (I was an hour late because I didn't read my e-mail), desparately peruse job boards for grad assistantships that somehow mysteriously disappear at the very moment that I apply for them; and, walk around the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) from bookstore to bookstore in the rain looking for used textbooks and finding nothing but empty shelves where the books ought to be.
Well, it looks like Leo has had better luck than I when it comes to books. Read on!
we've decided that he should start with the hard stuff and move to the easy stuff!
btw, I think "orientations" are fascitoid indoctrination sessions: it's all about you showing up and obeying their orders in the guise of receiving information
Beware the Orientation!
Fascitoid! Oh, yeah. Funny, some of the presenters acted as if they did not want to be there. I kept wondering if this was because of the constant drizzle and gray skies. They threw a lot of info at us. All the while, I sat there feeling slightly 'robotized'--inert until programmed.
Meanwhile, the drizzle and the gray skies continued, right up to the present day. For some reason, I'm reminded of Tennyson's "Marianna."
"The day is dreary . . . I am aweary, I am aweary . . ."
I say these things against orientations, but I go the ones I am supposed to go to, I show up in good cheer, am politely upbeat and institutionally correct. In some sense, my excuse for my compliance is that things are already so bad in the humanities, that to "resist" the institution from this place would be totally wrong-headed.
So there you go, keep critical thinking alive...which may mean at times, holding off on action -- for now.
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