Monday, April 4, 2011

Twitter Book Club: Bell Hooks (1994) Teaching to Transgress - Ch 5

Chapter 5: Theory as Liberatory Practice


"Whenever I tried in childhood to compel folks around me to do things differently, to look at the world differently... http://tl.gd/9gjmrcless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to process of self-recovery, of collective liberat... http://tl.gd/9gjpsmless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"Indeed, the privileged act of naming often affords those in power access to modes of communication and enables the... http://tl.gd/9gjrq4less than a minute ago via Twittelator



"They use it to set up unnecessary and competing hierarchies of thought which reinscribe the politics of domination... http://tl.gd/9gk025less than a minute ago via Twittelator


Seems right now this is most pertinent for me in the acceptance of online blogging and open access journals as legitimate places to publish and cite as credible as opposed to peer-reviewed journals. Problem is, as Jon Becker points out, the peer-reviewed walls of academia tend to been echo chambers. Who reads them? If I have an idea to spread am I better off publishing it in a journal that is likely going to be read only by a handful of established intellectuals or better off publishing it in an open format accessible to all?

"It is evident that one of the many uses of theory in academic locations is in the production of an intellectual cl... http://tl.gd/9gk1fsless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"There are so many settings in this country where the written word has only slight visual meaning, where individual... http://tl.gd/9gk3fnless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"Many black nationalists will eagerly embrace critical theory and thought as a necessary weapon in the struggle aga... http://tl.gd/9gki9iless than a minute ago via Twittelator



"In this capitalist culture, feminism and feminist theory are vast becoming a commodity that only the privileged can afford." Hooksless than a minute ago via Twittelator

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