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Who agrees humans reproducing human children with robots would be for the common good? Elaborations welcome.
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I agree, if only there will be a man and a woman as parents.
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Who agrees genetic engineering should individualize life? Elaborations desired. My answer: I agree genetic engineering should individualize life because queer lives matter and human asexual reproduction supports the LGBTQAA+ community.
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Individualise life? Well by your description it looks to me that sexual relations aren't important.
Nevertheless even if the genetical studies reach pinacle, it will not try to dehumane the love hetros
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Doing my research on violent treatments of enemies and prisoners of war in New Kingdom Egypt I realized that war is closely related to hunt in both textual and visual representations, but also that gender and religion play a big role.
I explored how these ideas are reflected on the treatments of enemies and prisoners of war and realized that in relation to all of the above mentioned ideas enemies and prisoners of war can be dehumanized or feminized through these treatments. Thus, I was wondering if I am dealing here with frames in Butler's terms?
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Judith Butler's "Frames of War" is a book that explores the ways in which war is understood, represented, and framed within political, social, and cultural contexts. The concept of "frames" in this context refers to the discursive and symbolic structures through which war is perceived and made meaningful. In other words, it deals with the mechanisms by which societies and governments shape and communicate their understanding of war, often with significant political and ethical consequences.
Here's a breakdown of key ideas related to the concept of "frames of war" and its applicability to past wars:
  • War as a Social Construct: Butler argues that war is not just a physical and geopolitical event; it is also a social construct, shaped by language, culture, and politics. It is framed and given meaning through various narratives, images, and discourses.
  • Performativity of War: Butler draws on her earlier work on performativity, suggesting that war is performed through language and actions. The way we talk about and represent war can have a profound impact on how we perceive it and on the actions we take in response.
  • Frames as Regulatory Mechanisms: Frames of war are not neutral; they serve as regulatory mechanisms that shape the way we respond to conflict. The framing of war can determine who is seen as a legitimate combatant, who is a civilian, and what actions are considered acceptable or unacceptable.
  • Visibility and Invisibility: Butler explores how certain aspects of war are made highly visible while others are rendered invisible or forgotten. This selective framing can influence public opinion and policy decisions.
  • Biopolitical Implications: The book also delves into the biopolitical aspects of framing war. How governments and societies frame war can influence who is considered grievable and whose lives are deemed expendable.
  • Applicability to Past Wars: The concept of "frames of war" is highly applicable to past wars, as it helps us understand how historical conflicts were understood, justified, and represented. It allows for critical analysis of how narratives and discourses around past wars shaped public opinion, policy decisions, and the aftermath of those conflicts.
For example, one can apply this concept to World War I, where the framing of the war as a "war to end all wars" had significant implications for the post-war period and the formation of the League of Nations. Similarly, examining the framing of the Vietnam War as a struggle against communism and the Iraq War as a response to weapons of mass destruction sheds light on the political and ethical consequences of these frames.
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Hello there,
i hoping you might be able to help me with a reference for the idea that linear thinking is not a good way to manage social-ecological systems?
thanks
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ok, thanks Ilan, i'll have a read :)
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Hi everyone, I'm looking for some articles that discuss the historical importance of the LGBTQ community. I'm specifically looking for theory papers that talk about why a sense of connectedness to the LGBTQ community is so important for many LGBTQ individuals. I've been looking at papers in the areas of sociology and queer theory, but I'm interested in articles from any discipline. Thanks!
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You have the following two books that can be helpful to your research:
- WOLF, Sherry. Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009.
- HEGARTY, Peter. A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology: From Homophobia to LGBT. London: Routledge, 2018.
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Collegues,
I am looking for literature on childfree / childless lesbian, bisexual and queer women by choice, specifically on reasons and motivations for being childfree. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some research on this topic.
Thanks for you help.
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very interesting, But at the moment i am poor inthis area
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I find it sad that since the 70s queer theory has been researched and published, yet still teachers in EAL and institutions have not quite caught up with the literature in curriculum, pedagogy and teaching. What is the obstacle here?
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Well, this would not necessarily be a " research based" but more of a literature review with a view towards looking at the issues that you have brought up. Further, I have some colleagues interested in the topic- so we may involve a few others- if that is ok with you.
Best way to communicate is via e-mail -----Michael.Shaughnessy@enmu.edu
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Looking for research to help a poet writing thesis: Queer Theory to analyze early queer poets' and contemporary queer poets' ways of addressing and writing about identity and sexuality with an emphasis on Pat Parker and Adrienne Rich.
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I'm trying to get into Lee edelman and have hear that it requries a good understanding of lacanian pyschoanalysis specifically about the Lack and the death drive - I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain to me what it was before i jumped into it
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Before jumping into Lacan I would question what it is in Edelman’s teachings you wish to understand better, and why you think understanding Lacan will help.
. Lacan-fans will not like my saying this, but Lacanian theory is very very dense, and because he himself did not write much after his phd thesis, others have written about him and how you should understand him. He gave popular lectures for decades and therefore most of his work is actually oral. So what you have is writers quoting other writers who interpret Lacan. Much like Anna Freud and others interpreted Freud’s work to English speakers who could not read the original in German. Translating the German into English then led to distortions and near meta-physical terminology which was not there in the original. When people attack Freud, they often attack the translation, or do not realize his work developed over 50 years, building on itself as all science and knowledge does.
What I see in my own field of applying psychoanalytic theory to organisational life is that unfortunately there is quite a bit of intellectual snobbery. People quote “Lacan” without it leading to extra understanding. I personally do not find his work enlightening and seeing as I am both an experimental physicist and a psychoanalytically trained counselor and group therapist, it is not a lack of intelligence or powers of abstraction. I also speak and read French.
However, this is only my opinion and perhaps you like the intellectual challenge of diving into this field, so if that is the case,don’t let anything hold you back. Just do not expect anyone able to make it easier for you.
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I was after papers, explanations and examples on how to analyse interview scrips using queer theory in order to explore why sexual identity is not considered in explaining health concerns outside of mental health and STIs.
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Thankyou Ara
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(as I can find it, it is introduced by Susan Lanser on a conference in 2011, but cannot find any article that explains it.
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"Negative plotting": notion proposed by Susan Lancer (Lanser, Susan (2011). “‘The Shadow Knows’: Negative Plotting and Feminist Thought.” Keynote Lecture, 2nd ENN Conference, Kolding.)
According to Colin Burnett, "negative plotting" describes narratives that create plots that truly compete for the viewer’s attention. As Karin Kukkonen explains, this narrational approach involves plots “shadowing” one another, that is, becoming “meaningful in their mutual contrast.” They must “negotiate different narrative perspectives and broke the struggle for interpretive dominance.” In a “realist” narrative like Ice Poison, negative plotting gives the film a “dialectical” dimension in which a consistent pattern of plot developments that show attempts on the part of the protagonist to overcome his social predicament “collide” with an opposing series of plot developments that undermine these attempts. See https://colinatthemovies.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/ice-poison-midi-z-2014-realist-transparency-and-dedramatization-in-the-contemporary-art-film/
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Karin Kukkonen, the living handbook of narratology, 2014.
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Hello.
I plan to conduct Ph.D. on media studies and the proposal that I am working on entails masculinity studies and media; the convergence of the two. Now I notice something after I wrote up the proposal: I am keen to integrate psychology, sociology, feminist theory, cultural studies, media studies, queer theory, and gender studies. Media Ph.D. programs in media and cultural studies often do integrate various disciplines, as you shall know. However, I am particularly interested in studying a non-visible sexual minority group in Turkey; margin in a margin who are under-researched. The most public those minorities get is on LBRTD (Location based real time dating) apps for men who have sex with men (MSM) and I am keen to observe their rhetoric and strategies of visibility and doing gender on these media platforms. However, since there is a dearth in sociological or psychological research about this particular sexual minority group, I presume that a sociological and psychological study of their offline rhetoric is also vital: How does the rhetoric of this sexual minority converge and diversify in-between online and offline platforms? So, as much as I wish to limit the study on understanding this form of emerging masculinity in the specific media platform, I also wish to conduct a psychological/sociological research on the offline rhetoric of the group. Then, however, I feel like I am drifting off the course of media studies because perhaps half of my study will entail a pure sociological/psychological research with no focus on media when I explore the offline rhetoric. 
How do I manage to synthesize those online and offline realities in a single strand of research? Is it legit to conduct pure sociological/psychological research on offline artifacts in a media studies Ph.D. Program? Or do I always need to  connect it with media? Since I have a challenging configuration here, I wonder if it is out of line to investigate offline cultural artifacts with no media focus in a media studies. I basically want to analyze both online and offline rhetorics and discourses and at the end see how they converge and diversify..
I am a bit confused I suppose. So I wonder what you think about this. I shall also report that I will use a mixed methods study with three sequential phases; first phase is on the online rhetoric in a specific media artifact, and second phase is a Quantiative research on the offline rhetoric of the sexual minority group, and third one is a qualitative research about both online and offline rhetorics.
I hope I made myself clear,
I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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Wow. Great topic! Sounds like that will be an excellent study. I think you might need to begin by thinking about WHERE you want to do your PhD. And then it depends on what you want to do with the degree.  Do you want to teach in a university yourself? If so, then you need to ask whether you want to be devoted to teaching Psychology? or Media? or Sociology? or?? Your thesis may have a particular focus, but you'll need to be conversant with larger issues in psychology or media or sociology.
If you are flexible, there are many programs in the US where your work would fit in. NYU's program in Media, Culture, and Communications would be a great place. U Amsterdam's School for Cultural Analysis is more Humanities based but would be welcoming I would think. 
There's many places, so you might need to start by researching schools and then you'd have to adapt your methodologies to fit the place. 
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What concepts developed by queer "theorists" could be use in the post-colonialism approach studying race.
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Queer  theory  has  developed  as  an interrogation and deconstruction of the multiple discursive productions of sexuality, seeking to denaturalize the assumed connections between sex,  gender  and  desire. The  emerging  body  of  queer  theory  was  demarcating  an  area  of studying  sexuality  without  gender  and  without  feminism,  producing a  sophisticated  body  of  work  on  sex  and  sexuality  that  troubled  heteronormativity  independent  of  feminism‘s  focus  on  male/  female relationships.
postcolonialism includes a vast array of subjects. In fact, the very different geographical, historical, social, religious, and economic concerns of the different ex-colonies dictate a wide variety in the nature and subject of most postcolonial writing.
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the theory of queers is it majorly based on gender identities?
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Clearly you're not a post-structuralist feminist and we have rather different ontological orientations - starting, I think with internal/external binaries. This isn't the place to debate them!
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I'm beginning my research in this topic and I'd like to improve my literature review.
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Thanks Volker and Richard, I'll begin to read this books. Joaquín