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3 Questions/Wonderings
ReplyDeleteWhat causes people to “slip” back into their individual privileges?
I’d love to know more about Hegemonic Masculinity and the Multiple Masculinities.
Will this Podcast be able to affect those who walk into it disagreeing?
3 Observations
Silence as a tool for safety. To protect loved ones. To prevent yourself from sharing information that hurts you.
“Subtlety is vulnerability.”
There was a moment of pause and breath between each response. They never jumped on the other, and everyone was allowed to speak until they were done.
What might be your vision for radical hope? How might your artistic practice help give shape to your vision for a different future?
In On Being, there was a lot of conversing about Americans not knowing each other well, not understanding each others experiences, being progressively distanced from each other in person-to-person connection and, I believe the cause and poison, is spending more time on the internet. Because of this distancing, we’re more comfortable in isolation and less comfortable in public. This transition stems from society wrongly, but possibly unknowingly, miseducating us of un-normal, normative behavior. Being complex, being weird, standing out aren’t positively stigmatized. That’s changing as we speak, but those core values still stand. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t individuals who prefer isolation regardless of influence, but being a social creature that desires vulnerability, but wont give it to themselves is us repressing our complexity. That complexity is what allows us to feel all ranges of emotions at different intensities.
Our complexity, our multiplicity is our strength, not the problem. It will only be a problem if we hide from it and avoid it. So I believe to spread hope and heal the world, what will do the trick is adding vulnerability to the daily routine to promote more honesty and re-personalize the communities we live in.
We should get rid of the “public life,” the life advertised through television. And move toward publicizing the “private life,” the emotional life we all watch television for. We aren’t fully loving one another, because we haven’t “forgiven,” we aren’t fulling living and loving.
“First and foremost we have to feel.”
REFLECTING ON THE OBSERVATIONS/QUESTIONS
As someone of privilege, their have been moments during conversation where I’ve been insulted in the process of them teaching me aspects of my privilege while describing what its like on the other end. It’s inappropriate to take the insult personally disregard what else is being said but I have seen people disengage in conversation when it happens. How do we converse to learn and except hard truths beside insulting and bombarding people over the head with it?
In hearing of the multiple masculinities, is it referring to Toxic Masculinity and Hegemonic Masculinity? If so are there more and I want to learn more about it.
Finally, will this podcast positively effect those that don’t walk into it agreeing on the topic. I don’t think so. I feel it has an essence of exclusivity because of what it would take to find it and watch the entire thing. That’s coming from someone who doesn’t watches podcast’s, so it might just be me who doesn’t know, but I believe there has to be selective language used when talking to blue collar people who don’t understand, Especially considering the conversation on being silent in the podcast. Is there specific behavior that’s worked better than others?
Finally, to reiterate one of my observations that really stood out to me. There was so much listening. Nobody spoke over each other, each person was given the floor to ask their question and answer their question without feeling rushed or targeted. It was a very generous conversation because of that behavior I believe, maybe finding an answer to a previous question.