I'm not really sure how these may/not relate to our class discussion or any of our projected courses of study, however I find these articles pretty interesting. One is about the Pussy Cat Dolls and their oh-so- televisable and marketable relationship with third wave feminsim; the other about Tila Tequila, a self made internet and teevee star and her (transnational?) identity issues.
Dolls Clad in Feminism, and Hardly Anything Else
nytimes.com
She's Famous (and So Can You!)
nytimes.com
-Jessica
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I can see just in the horizon, a feminism class, an art history class, and a philosophy class taking an hour each out of Kristeva, Derrida, and Foucault respectively to discuss Tila's, or MTV's or The Government's assault on the world, and HAPPY STUDENTI who didn't read but watched A Shot at Love instead fulfill their class participation grades. Meanwhile, nobody in Newhouse is straying from the syllabus.
Go. Tila.
Possible NYPOCO Conference 2008, "Postcolonialism and the hit of the real" proposal???:
(http://www.nyupoco.com/html/conference)
"Tila Tequila and Shilpa Shetty: Postcololonialism and Reality TV"
hmm also thinking about
"I Love New York: Love in the time of Transnationalism"
Looks like a great conference. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Nice suggestions for paper proposals. I think you should both seriously think about submitting.
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