Author Archives: Jason Tougaw

Ann Cvetkovich and Saidiya Hartman on Writing at CUNY!

The Practice of Writing: A Conversation with Ann Cvetkovich and Saidiya Hartman April 27, 2015 6-8pm Kelly Skylight Room The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Ann Cvetkovich and Saidiya Hartman will discuss their turn to … Continue reading

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New Writing Groups

Group 1: Amber, Julia, Jen, & Justin Amber: For my project, I will put the scientifically trained performance artist Stelarc into conversation with Alva Noe. Both Stelarc and Noe believe consciousness is dynamic, action-based and extends beyond the flesh. Julia: My project … Continue reading

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Post One-Sentence Descriptions of Your Research Projects Here

My project will focus on self perception and Schizophrenia. This will be executed in the form of a literary review of sorts. Some questions I will explore are how does this illness impact self perception and how does the illness … Continue reading

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Maud Casey Wins a Guggenheim

Maud Casey is a 2015 recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Casey is the author most recently of The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury, 2014). During her fellowship, she will be working on a … Continue reading

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Prompt #3: Overlapping projects?

Take a look at other students’ responses to Prompt #2. Look for projects that seem to overlap with yours–in terms of sources, questions, topics, or methods. Note these similarities and some ways that you and these other students might be … Continue reading

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Prompt #2: Your research topic and the self

Describe how your research topic builds on or contributes to some conversation about the origins, meanings, or functions of selfhood. What other thinkers, scholars, or writers are part of this conversation?

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On Viegener, the Self, and Oversharing

Hi everybody. I’m posting the interview questions from last night’s session below. Also, I encourage you to check out the Oversharing blog. In particular, look to see if any of Professor Hintz’s students are doing research projects that overlap with … Continue reading

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Workshop: Creating a Conversation among Texts (or, How to Avoid “Grand Confabulations”)

1. Choose two related passages, one from Casey’s novel and one Hacking’s chapter. 2. Talk about how the passages illuminate each other with regard to a shared question–or  a set of related questions. 3. Discuss why the question matters, how it … Continue reading

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Maud Casey

I interviewed Maud Casey for my blog a few months ago. I thought you might be interested to read her take on her own novel–and on Hacking. You can read that here. Casey also wrote a short piece about Albert … Continue reading

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In The Times

I thought you might be interested to see philosopher Ned Block’s review of Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind in The New York Times, along with Siri Hustvedt’s response. Did they read the same book?

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