This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Contrasting perspectives of America's view on China

This is not necessarily related to queer or African American issue in class but I thought this was an interesting evidence of America's view on China today--especially with these two. I think China is in an interesting place with being one of the super powers in the world yet having distinctive philosophical differences from other super powers in the world, making them a minority.

The Facebook video is a video that Fox Business put up on Friday(before IPO) and the second link is an opinion piece on New York Post, interestingly from Fox Business Network senior correspondent.



https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152692559325238

http://nypost.com/2014/09/16/alibabas-big-risk-do-you-really-trust-beijing/




- Juwon
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