Posts tagged "Rachel Levitsky"
Final Post from Guest Blogger Rachel Levitsky
Confinement as Commons
Probably all comparison is specious. At least wrong. There was feudalism and then there was capitalism. There were horse drawn carriages and then there were cars. For a while there were both and it was natural to compare them as ways of getting somewhere. Or the telephone as a way of communication soon [...]
Post no. 3 from Guest Blogger Rachel Levitsky
Notes on Thoughts on Confinement #3
Poetics of Speed
What is a blog and how do you do it? I had a plan and now find myself surprised to be without internet so I can’t get into facebook to check on my list of bleaker 70s movies and where is the Melanie lyric? But I was talking [...]
Post no. 2 from Guest Blogger Rachel Levitsky
THOUGHTS ON CONFINEMENT 2: “HEY”
(Note: “Melanie and the Movies” postponed until next week)
Just “Hey” is frequently how my students begin an email to me (and this despite a long schpiel I give at start of each semester on how they can call me Rachel or Professor Levitsky whatever is easier/more comfortable for them). I confess [...]
Guest Blogger is back – Rachel Levitsky, post no. 1
THE FIGURE WANDERS ON ALONE
In Progress: Thinking Notes on Writing and Confinement
Stacy asked me to do the February web log, the first one due today and I said yes, what might you like to see me log about? Stacy said, ‘your work teaching in prison.’ I can’t probably do that very directly but, since last [...]
