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Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
Simon Says
No full textThis begins a yearly column from Simon Nightingale and his wife Bridget. Dr. Nightingale is a second generation metagrobologist (His father Bill had started their collection of over 1000 puzzles many years ago.). The answer to this rebus appears in Answers and Solutions
Simon Marrs papers
No full textThis collection contains ledger books and documents related to the life of Simon Marrs of Hot Springs, Ark., as well as additional miscellaneous items
General Benjamin Butler Letter Regarding the naming of Newport News, Virginia
No full textDigital images of an original letter written by Former Union Major-General Benjamin Butler in reply to a query by author, Edwin Everett Hale on how Newport News, Virginia had received it's name. both sides of the original letter are included along with a typed transcription of the letter
Speculative Literature in Modern Society: Octavia Butler and the Tragedy of the Commons
No full textWhat leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do so, such as political theory and speculative dystopian fiction. By using lenses to analyze the society in which we live, we are able to recognize the seeds of both prosperity and destruction in our society that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored. The speculative dystopian fiction of Octavia Butler may be considered as building upon the political theory of the tragedy of the commons. Butler provides her American audience an analysis of the root causes of this tragedy, as well as some possible preventative measures or solutions. We are able to read her novel, The Parable of the Sower, as a warning against ignoring current trends in our society which could lead to our tragedy of the commons. Octavia Butler was an American author of speculative dystopian fiction, and was the first science fiction novelist to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1955. She was born in California on June 22, 1947 and died in Washington on January 24, 2006. Butler was well-known for critiquing social hierarchies and inequalities as well as for exploring what forms healthy, sustainable communities. Her first novel in her Parable Series, The Parable of the Sower, introduces Butler’s reader to a broken community in a divided society after an environmental apocalypse. Through her protagonist, Lauren Olamina, Butler shows her reader the flaws and failures in society that lead to the community’s collapse as well as how a community can be rebuilt
John Gould Fletcher/Charlie May Simon photograph collection
No full textThis collection contains photographs related to John Gould Fletcher and Charlie May Simon
Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Simon: The Genius in My Basement
No full textThis is the title of an unconventional biography of Simon Norton, occasional Word Ways contributor, written by Alexander Masters, a tenant in a rooming-house owned by Norton who lives in the basement
Typewriter: print on demand
No full textAn exhibition of typewriters, related works and Artists’ Books presented by Angie & Simon Butler.</p
Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it’s written on? Answer: When it’s accompanied by a level, grade or mark!
No full textIn this article, Simon Butler advances a strong case for ‘comments only’ marking. Good
assessment, he argues, is about encouraging students to reflect on their current performance
and take responsibility for their own progress. Assigning levels to pupils’ work is often justified
in terms of the generation of targets which help to ‘raise standards’. In fact, Butler and others
argue that regularly awarding levels may actually hinder student progress. Those who argue
that it is the government, ultimately, who sets the ‘levelling’ agenda will notice that Butler
draws heavily from the Key Stage 3 Strategy and from the research which inspired much of
its assessment materials. In his view, the official line is now moving towards a more
sophisticated and developmental approach to assessment which is more likely to create a
climate for lifelong learning. Here, he shares the findings of a ‘comments only’ assessment
project in local schools and offers a useful strategy that departments can adapt
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