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...writings were either Marxist, post-structuralist or post-modernist. The head TF of the course, who was fair in his tolerance of my opinions to the contrary, informed me that, indeed, the pedagogical goal was to "destabilize" the Western conception of art. So we read a large amount of Michel Foucault, whose connection to visual culture is entirely dubious...
...cursory reading of ancient poetry can accomplish what a headache inducing romp through Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler cannot; an appreciation of the wonderful cornucopia of sexual relations from time immemorial and how sexuality was (and is) linked with spirituality, nature, power, and politics...
...North America, and the season still has two months to go. Recently, at Washington's Mount Baker, a skier (who was outside the area's boundary) and a snowboarder were killed by a thunderous 15-ft. wall of snow moving at 200 m.p.h. In Canada the body of Michel Trudeau, son of the former Canadian Prime Minister, lies at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia, carried there by an early-season slide. "The more I know about avalanches, the more scared I am," says Wendy Fisher, two-time Extreme Skiing champion and a notoriously fearless backcountry skier...
Berkowitz is a brilliant professor of political philosophy who offers a unique perspective on his field of study. He is the only instructor at this school who has offered courses which provide a critical perspective on postmodernist theory. The name of Michel Foucault abounds on syllabi across the College and is universally lauded by our faculty as a brilliant scholar. Students seeking a second opinion would have nowhere to go if it were not for the free-thinking Berkowitz. Those seeking an example of the importance of ideological diversity need look no further...
...film in which Hill's character reels off a rap as her classmates look on. "None of that was scripted," says director Bill Duke. "That was all Lauryn. She was amazing." While in high school, she formed the rap trio the Fugees (short for refugees) with classmate Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel and Wyclef Jean, who went to a nearby school. The group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, sold poorly. Hill spent about a year at Columbia University but left school when the Fugees' second album, The Score, took off. It has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...