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Martin Peterson, "The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles."
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WE NEED TO GET BETTER AT THIS! PEDAGOGIES FOR TRUTH TELLING ABOUT COLONIAL VIOLENCE
No full textThis article considers the importance of widespread teaching of colonial histories to future generations of students. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 2015 report, Calls to Action, asserts that the lack of historical knowledge among most Canadians has serious consequences for Indigenous peoples, and for Canada as a whole. Using the Responses to Interpersonal Violence framework, this paper explores the capacity of educators to teach colonial histories in a way that indicates supportive social responses and a recognition of the ongoing colonial violence lived by Indigenous peoples in Canada. It also makes recommendations on core principles of teaching colonial histories to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in a responsible way that respects the intentions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Paradox of Female Authorship in Samuel Butler’s The Authoress of the Odyssey and Harold Bloom’s The Book of J
No full textSamuel Butler’s The Authoress of the Odyssey and Harold Bloom’s The Book of J both refute long-held assumptions of male authorship with respect to two of the most foundational texts to Western culture: The Odyssey and the book of Genesis. This essay discusses the evidence for these claims and addresses how such claims might affect the reception of these foundational works
Patriarchal-Industrial Anxiety and the Return of the Repressed (Eco-Critical) Simian Monster
No full textApocalyptic monkey monsters just keep coming back. Many of the stories have been subject to numerous remakes that date from the early-mid twentieth century, into the new millennium with myriad recurring visions of the simian monster, including Murders in the Rue Morgue (1917, 1932, 1986), King Kong (1933, 1976, 2005), Planet of the Apes (1968, 2001, 2011), and “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963, 1983) to name just a few. And in the new millennium, Peter Jackson’s Kong (2005) participates in a rejuvenation of the giant monster movie cycles. In Living in the End Times (2011), Slavoj Žižek states “one of the best ways to detect shifts in the ideological constellation is to compare consecutive remakes of the same story” (Žižek, End Times, 61). By doing so, and in conjunction with his articulation of the socio-psychological mechanics of fantasy, Žižek introduces an analytical framework through which to examine the intermittent return of the simian monster to popular cinema. As suggested here, the simian monster recurs not only because it is an effective uncanny receptacle for capitalist Othering, but also because it represents a larger patriarchal anxiety regarding the monstrous threat of nature and its conquest. Jackson’s Kong, for example, seems to have less to do with the atomic fear of the 1950s giant monster movie cycle with which it participates than with eco-disaster anxieties. Following the trajectory of both the films and their surrounding discourse, this article seeks to demonstrate that these films can be read as the evolution of nearly a century of eco-anxieties signified by cinematic simian monsters into increasingly explicit fantasies of redemption from the fear of ecological disaster that is embedded in the repressed contradictions of an aggressively industrial and patriarchal capitalist culture