Immigrant adolescent male students and their identity negotiation remain under-examined in the field of language and literacy education research. This paper reports on a classroom discourse study examining the relationship between... more
Immigrant adolescent male students and their identity negotiation remain under-examined in the field of language and literacy education research. This paper reports on a classroom discourse study examining the relationship between masculinity performances and language learning of one immigrant boy, Tiger, in one ESL classroom. Using discourse analysis of classroom interactions , field notes, and documents, I illustrate that Tiger stylized his L2 speech and appropriated the classroom language practice to perform a funny and "laddish" masculinity. I theorize his L2 stylization as "doing funny," a discursive practice of performing a dominant form of masculinity to gain hegemonic power and an act of subverting the routinized and nonengaging language instruction for identity performance. His masculinity performances, deeply intertwined with the interactional process of teaching and learning of language, conflicted with the instructional goals set by the teacher, ultimately leading to him being identified as a "problem" student. This study underscores the need for teachers to be cognizant of the complexity in multilingual young men's masculinity negotiation, to recognize the interdependence of identity performances and language learning, to disrupt boys' internalized notions of masculinity, and to decenter the power and control between the student, the teacher, and the school.
Table of Contents: Introduction - Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, and Daniel Smith Part I Encounters 1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship - François Dosse 2. Theatrum Philosophicum - Michel Foucault 3. Michel Foucault's Main... more
Table of Contents: Introduction - Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail, and Daniel Smith
Part I Encounters 1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship - François Dosse 2. Theatrum Philosophicum - Michel Foucault 3. Michel Foucault's Main Concepts - Gilles Deleuze 4. When and How I’ve read Foucault - Toni Negri (translated by Kristopher Klotz)
Part II Method and Critique 5. Philosophy as Cultural Critique in Foucault and Deleuze - Colin Koopman 6. Foucault’s Deleuzean Methodology of the Late 1970s - John Protevi 7. Deleuze’s Foucault: A Metaphysical Fiction - Frédéric Gros (translated by Samantha Bankston)
Part III Convergence and Divergence 8. Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) - Len Lawlor and Janae Sholtz 9. Philosophy and History in Deleuze and Foucault - Paul Patton 10. Becoming and History: Deleuze’s Reading of Foucault - Anne Sauvagnargues (translated by Alex Feldman) 11. Foucault and the Image of Thought - Kevin Thompson 12. The Regularities of the Statement: Deleuze on Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge - Mary Beth Mader
Part IV Desire, Power and Resistance 13. Desire and Pleasure - Gilles Deleuze 14. Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem - Nicolae Morar and Marjorie Gracieuse 15. Biopower and Control Societies - Thomas Nail 16. Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and Deleuze - Dan W. Smith
Appendix 17. Meeting Deleuze - Paul Rabinow 18. Foucault and Prison - Paul Rabinow
This paper deals with real-hyperreal duality in the context of proliferation of Electronic Capitalism and its subsequent death industry, unusually depending on some facts and fictions, which are strictly discouraged as well as disallowed... more
This paper deals with real-hyperreal duality in the context of proliferation of Electronic Capitalism and its subsequent death industry, unusually depending on some facts and fictions, which are strictly discouraged as well as disallowed within the strict format or Procrustean bed (Prokrustes is a giant in the Greek mythology, Damastes or otherwise, who laid all human beings on his bed and then “lop them or rack them out to make fit it.”) of dominant scientific writing. I apologize for such inconvenient way of representation as I am writing an obituary of the grave incident of real death in contrast with the imaginary world of fairytale economy as proposed by the prosperous masters (sexism intended) of the universe.
For the facts, I am depending on the report of Andhra-suicides published in the Frontline (27 April, 2001) and treat that exposition as a real discourse and on the other hand, this paper will deal with the hyperreal as constructed by those masters of the universe. Lastly, it also depends on “imagined” fictions by Manik Bandyopadhyay and Samaresh Basu. This difference between these facts and fictions is often fuzzy as Chakrovorty Spivak(1997:76) aptly said that the difference is “in degree rather than in kind”. These real facts and fictions will be placed against the hyperreal simulated world of development to understand its immediate consequence, the death industry.
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Keywords: Hyperreal, suicide as a market fact, simulation, death industry
