Category Archives: Research topics

About this course

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Liz Foley

I should probably be evaluating this course on the basis of whether or not I learned anything in it that shifted my views about selfhood. Instead I’m going to evaluate it using the secret, selfish criteria by which I habitually … Continue reading →

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Post One-Sentence Descriptions of Your Research Projects Here

Posted on April 13, 2015 by David Liburd

My research paper focus is on social media and self representation, how ‘popularity’ plays a part in personal and commercial use. Are we active due to the number of ‘likes’ or ‘views’ and how does this influence business?

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Prompt #2: My research topic and the self

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Justin Wenhan Luo

Research Project: Extended Mind and Self It took me quite a while to determine my project topic, though it now still seems a little broad. I was fascinated with Alva Noe’s thesis that our mind (probably our self as well) … Continue reading →

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Prompt 2

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Julia Schaffer Gruberg

(First, I am sorry to be late and to only be posting in response to prompts 2 and 3.) My project is a video exploration my own selfhood vis-a-vis my body, my mental illness, my sexuality. Using the frame of Viegener’s … Continue reading →

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Prompt #2: Research topic

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Liz Foley

I was struck by Kevin Killian’s speculation, in the preface to Matias Viegener’s book, that there is something in gay men’s lives that “resists taxonomy in some fundamental manner,” which he supported by citing other examples of fragmented texts by … Continue reading →

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