Apr
15
One more Heti-related post
April 15, 2015 | Comments Off on One more Heti-related post
While you are reading the interviews with Heti, you can listen to this Heti-inspired song. (I also recommend you check out this entire album. It is great.) Sarah
Apr
1
Warner: The Trouble with Normal
April 1, 2015 | Comments Off on Warner: The Trouble with Normal
Continuing from our 3/31 discussion, I’ve uploaded 2 consecutive chapters (1 pdf) from Michael Warner’s The Trouble With Normal. These chapters reflect on the culture of shame surrounding America’s discussion of sex and sexuality, particularly in political spheres regarding queer groups (although not exclusively). Although he clearly doesn’t discuss over-sharing, he is very concerned with […]
Mar
16
Additional Readings for Miller and Viegener
March 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Additional Readings for Miller and Viegener
Elise Cowen and Allen Ginsburg I was drawn into the Miller article for three main reasons, I work at Hunter College, I love memoirs and as a precocious young teen I spent a lot of time reading the Beats. As Miller concludes, “ the six degrees of separation that mark the distance from your life […]
Mar
7
BYB – Blabbing Your Business
March 7, 2015 | 3 Comments
I suggest this article on “The Wall Street Journal”, called Thank You for Not Sharing, What Triggers People to Reveal Too Much; Avoiding the Post-Conversation Cringe, by columnist Elizabeth Bernstein in which she explains the causes of the oversharing and how to control the impulse. Is it really just an impulse? “Experts say oversharing often happens when […]
Feb
23
Further reading on Virginia Woolf
February 23, 2015 | Comments Off on Further reading on Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy by Joshua Rothman, particularly this: “To me, though, Woolf’s sense of privacy still feels relevant; when I keep it in mind, I see it everywhere… On Tumblr and Facebook, we seek out the same private sociality that Woolf described. Usually, we think of social media as a forum for exhibitionism. But, inevitably, the […]
