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Knowledge and Reality

The article speaking upon the ontology of crunk provides an analysis of how the idea or concept of crunk can be related to the state of being of a character through linguistic analysis of that word.  It is fascinating how the sonic expressiveness of crunk as well as the context it is used in has animated feminism, bringing about a feeling of new life to these feminist.  My only concern or question is if those that are white have access to this new taxonomy or category of feminism due to its relation to southern-black hip hop to describe the state of being of this feminisim.  I feel that crunk feminism should not be associated with a body because many of the elements of crunk are found in everyday life, and speaking boldly and confidently would be beneficial to all regardless of race.

Something I found interesting in the other article was the technocultural fallacy.  Legresse asserts that human behaviors are motivated by the imperative common to all organic species of acquiring a material basis of their existence.  This in turn has lead to history being written in a way that the past manifests into the future.  These two things have lead to the construction of our current reality because that heavily influence the conception of self.  

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Queer Economics, Sex before Sexuality

Sex before sexuality provides an analysis of sex before sexuality by looking at past historical traditions of western society (specifically the greeks in Athens).   This text displays Greeks using sex as a symbol of status of man.  During this time sex was only related to male discourse, and manifested into a binary that is still carried in our common understanding of sex in contemporary times.  An example of this binary is the example of authority (normally associated as male)/ submissive (normally understood as feminine).  I think it’s crazy how the thoughts of women were not even were not even considered in our conception of what we know as sexuality.  Much of our understanding of sex might have possibly been derived from same-gender relations with those embodying a masculine role/ feminine role.  I also feel that sex and its association to are public identity is still the same.  

Queer economics presents this new terminology as a form of social organization and this I would have to agree with.  Language often serves as structural and leads to the formation of new constructs so this comes to no surprise.  It also shows identity is connected to the economy. 

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The Social Contract/ Marriage

These two articles presented marriage as a social contract and views marriage in a negative light.  Marriage is presented as a social contract amongst two sexes unifying in order to benefit them socially in this patriarchal society  and having unlimited access to sexual organs in the sexual contract. This is an extremely unique perspective that can be observed in everyday marriages.  Many use this concept of a social contract as the bases for there marriage.  If this mindset of marriage at is bases is for the evolution of status instead of love or the harmonizing of minds, it makes sense that marriages would fail at a high rate.   Once the contract is fulfilled or the requirements are met, one would possibly seek to find a relation fulfills all the desires and passions that a social contract could never accomplish.  Personally, the purpose of marriage is divine and intellectualizing it for worldly benefit will always lead to failure.  There must be a higher purpose in your interaction with whomever it is you are interacting with.  

I feel that the  “Marriage Will Never Set Us Free,” article doesn’t encompass a variety of view points, therefore it is extremely biased.  However it does contain breadth, providing examples of many negatives of marriage and how it could never free us from social bondage because it is a proponent of that.  Once again, I feel that these articles would be more effective if they provided perspectives or testimonies of those who married without social constructs in mind.

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In A New Alogorithmic identity, Chenney-Lippoid speaks upon the assumption of identity based upon what you search for on the internet. For example, I often receive images and advertisements pertaining to musical equipment and hip-hop being that these things are what I mostly look at when I search...

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Social and Algorithmic Identities

In A New Alogorithmic identity, Chenney-Lippoid speaks upon the assumption of identity based upon what you search for on the internet.  For example, I often receive images and advertisements pertaining to musical equipment and hip-hop being that these things are what I mostly look at when I search for anything on the internet.  I found the formation of my identity eery because it was evident that there is a lack of privacy when searching the internet.  It’s crazy how even our curiosity has undergone a process of commodification.  It’s also phenomenal how a thought is automatically put to a body without any justification as to who the person actually is.

In Visible Identities, Alcoff makes the argument that we form identities based on human embodient.  What we perceive an individual to be is based upon cultural influences (such as media, religion, etc.) So when we look at someone and believe that we have knowledge of them based upon our senses, we fail to see this perception is fallible.  Healing begins when we take the time out to explore the individual for who she or he truly is.  

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Intersectionality is a valuable tool that aids in the analysis of the negative frameworks in which social power works to exclude those that are marginalized. Dissecting the norm through subjective...

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2/13:  Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a valuable tool that aids in the analysis of the negative frameworks in which social power works to exclude those that are marginalized.  Dissecting the norm through subjective experience is a great way to gain perspective in the infrastructure of a group.  In a way, it provides a voice that is independent from the crowd.  If intersectionality as a tool was practiced by those that are marginalized it would create a large discourse about the unseen forces that operate in their everyday lives.  It would also broaden or raise more question/ understanding of a given topic because everyone has a perspective that is completely unique to them.  For this reason, I argue that intersectionality does not limit epistemological output (puar), but progresses it.  Furthermore, I believe that intersectionality is synonymous with pluarality, and is an example of a dialectic that is always beneficial in gaining understanding.  For this reason, I understand the claim that intersectionality is self evident, but at the same time, claiming something is self evident does not mean it understood and practiced (EX: WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL)...this statement we hold dear to us as Americans has not been carried out at all throughout are history... this has lead to the exclusion of men/women and their voice.  Intersectionality aims to keep that in practice.

Puar also makes the claim that through intersectionality difference has lead to our perception of identity.  I agree with this completely.  Evaluation of the individual has only come to be understood through what differences one might have with another.  As time progresses I hope their is philosophical discourse that allows me to see myself as Cecil, uniquely and wonderfully created, and not be identified simply through comparison with another.  However, I do feel that conception of identity would come through knowledge of self and looking within as opposed to viewing yourself with respect to the world.

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A Performative Acts & Gender Construction and the Biopolitics of Fat both speak upon the roles that thought, language, and habit play in the construction of inhibiting constructs in society through phenomenology.

Language is a phenomenon that often serves as a social agent and aids in the...

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2/9      Discipline and Biopolitics

A Performative Acts & Gender Construction and the Biopolitics of Fat both speak upon the roles that thought, language, and habit play in the construction of inhibiting constructs in society through phenomenology. 

Language is a phenomenon that often serves as a social agent and aids in the construction of the construction.  It serves as the blueprint for what my come. This language often influences the thought patterns of individuals.  Through collective thoughts and actions (habit), a construct spawns from the blue print and manifests itself in our present reality.  From this idea came the statement that "one is not born, a woman, one becomes a woman."  This concept can be used to create structures that endure the trials of time and operate out of principles of love and equality, or the complete opposite (which is what we're currently facing).  

Analyzation of these phenomenons in society will aid in our awareness of the systemic structures that hinder the growth of mankind.  I feel that the Biopolitics of Fat is an example of enlightenment beyond the rhetoric of corporate installations.  It calls into question the creation of this "health" phenomenon by bringing recognition to the corporations that benefit from these things.  The enactment of this phenomenon has lead to materialization of its ideals. The War on _____ (insert here because it is always changing) will always be code for the war on you due to biopoltical governance.  We must break free of the molds of socially imposed identities.

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Feminism philosophy blog 2 (Political Economy)

A systematic social apparatus...

These words in the beginning of The Traffic of Women:  Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex by Gale Rubin adequately sum up the themes of oppression present in both this text and The Girl:  Mergers of Feminism and Finance in Neoliberalism times....

There has been a social apparatus that has possibly been indoctrinated in man since the beginning of time that has lead to recurring instances of oppression.  These two articles explore the oppression of women in the present and the formation of gender identities in connection to the marxist ideology of dialectical materialism.  

In the Traffic of Women, Rubin argues that this marxist ideology does not fully express or conceptualize sexual oppression.  Women are viewed as a commodity (through kinship), but an in depth analysis of capitalism does not explain why women are given more domestic roles.  The idea of capitalism is inherent in patriarchy but has lead to the exclusion of women from these roles which have been gendered and racialized.  The Girl:  Mergers of Feminism and Finance in Neoliberalism times further explores women being viewed as capital/ commodity and how the new neoliberal feminist might be playing into the hand of those oppressing them

Both of these articles attempt to alleviate the pains of social and gender stratification by looking at materialism through a feminist lens.  Rubin aids in the quest of equality through providing awareness to where this ideology of marxism failed in analyzing the transaction of women as a commodity and gift to man (Levi-Strauss).  The Girl article brings more awareness of the women being viewed as human capital.  These two articles do not address the upheaval of the structures, which is what I look to hearing the most, nor do they address the creation of these structures in depth .  

Awareness of these structures is the beginning of the healing of those who are oppressed and I feel that both articles do that well.  My question is how do we transcend these structures and create an environment that is just to all.  Furthermore, I feel that in the present women and men are both viewed as commodities for something higher up which is why division is prevalent in society.  These divisions have created a lack of harmony which they capitalize off of in the name of capitalism.  This hold trues to dialectical materialism, which suggests that material is the driving force behind the world.  I feel that the collective idea of materialism has lead to the societal constructs created to keep this drive alive. An upheaval of these structures in place will come from a new paradigm of thought.