Alone again. This week at the China National Symphony Orchestra's performance at the Krannert Center.
http://soundcloud.com/seanokonr/cnso1
Black Geek Week: White Scripts, Black Supermen
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Stanford Carpenter, John Jennings
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| Galactus |
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| Phoenix, Storm |
Metro: So, at one point, their writers wanted them to face Galactus, the most powerful male superhero. But Galactus's writers and the executives at Marvel decided that Phoenix and Storm would not be allowed to battle him because they didn't want him to get his ass kicked by two women. Storm's and Phoenix's writers went down the line of superheroes as to who the female superheroes were allowed to face, and they finally settled on a male superhero that everyone had forgotten about and was no longer being written about. So, they still had their battle and they won. But it was lame compared to battling Galactus. They would have totally won.
Puja:The most striking thing that I got out of this conversation was learning
how naive I am in regards to the social and political history that may
have fueled much of the creation of superheros. Obviously the battle
between good versus evil is evident, but to realize its relationship
with actual historical events and figures is important.
One of the speakers, Mikhail Lyubansky, mentioned this quote by X-men
writer Chris Claremont: "The X-men are hated, feared, and despised
collectively by humanity for no other reason than that they are mutants.
So what we have....intended or not, is a book that is about racism,
bigotry, and prejudice."
Modern Greek Studies Lecture: Yossipon and
Jewish Nationalism in 19th and 20th Century Greece
Anne: Another thing I picked up on was that many of the people sitting around us were speaking in a different language, it made me very curious as to what they were saying, just like in some of the nail salons, I was wondering if they were talking about us.
Brianne:
some observations right away:
-crowed
-older crowd
-being filmed
-smelled funky in the room (which distracted me alot)
-and the chairs were so obnoxiously squeaky (i wanted to yell at people to sit still)
Molly: At the end, people were able to ask questions, I guess this was beneficial to listen to even though I didn't really know what the questions were pertaining to, it was nice to listen to how other people formulate questions. This is important to me as an artist because we are constantly critiquing work and need to know how to form and understand questions.
Station Theater named, Sons of the Prophet.
Wes: This is the first play I have been to in years, if they were all this good then I would have never stopped going. 
Bill: Long Story short, two years ago, I was at the Armory show, and all the other satellite shows, in New York. The thing that i noticed was that the art world felt, and looked like it was in a holding pattern. And that was the same feeling I got from the slides Kevin showed, and from hearing Carolyn talk. I really wanted to ask her a question about why this was, but to make a long story short, we ran out of time.****
Brown Bag Lecture / ADV 360˚Rhiannon Clifton
Allison: I hope that it didn't leave a weird taste in their mouths as it did mine,
and that they too like the female students in the room wouldn't hold on
to this memory of a very successful woman who focused more on her
contrived adversities than her commendable successes.
The Future of Commerce: A
special talk with John Donahoe, eBay CEO
Carolina: I want to start off by saying this has been the biggest
crowd I've seen out of all the lectures I've ever attended on campus thus far.
This made me think about what it is that students care about and why going to a
talk given by John Donahoe is much more sought after than any other lecture
I've gone to on campus, although I feel like other talks I've gone to or heard
about touch on important topics as well, that range from race to gun violence
to education. Does it really all come down to money? Is it all about
the Benjamin's??
"All
of these ideas seemed really exciting to him and a few
people in the audience but I felt a bit disturbed by the idea of
possibly never
having to stand in a line. That sounds like a world where people lose
contact
with each other at a rapid rate and where we rely on technology more
than we
should. It seemed like Donahoe kept mentioning that all of these new
technologies would be ways of enhancing the consumer’s experience while
also
keeping them connected. This was a claim that I had issues with because I
don’t
believe these technologies improve our abilities to create lasting or
meaningful human-to-human relationships but it instead limits us and
benefits the companies selling us these things we don't need. All of
these ways of "changing the world" just sounded like faster ways for
them to make their money. These new
ways of getting things when we want it,
where we want it, and how we want it transforms the ways we interact with
each other and negatively changes our behaviors, turning us into impatient, irritable
people who can't stand waiting a few minutes to get their Jamba Juice."Christian: Summary over, the best part of this entire talk was when I had the
opportunity to ask John Donahoe a question about not commcerce, not
eBay, but about basic human interaction, an ontological question. I
asked, „Today our relationships to our world has been defined by
dichotomies, inside vs outside, the internet vs the real world, science
vs art, and technology vs business. Too often are they separated from
one and the other as disparate. How do we change that? What is the fear
for combining the two as a single entity that works synergistically?“His answer, though fueled by his capitalist mindset, was overall humanistic, genuine. Selina: The Goal:Not too far into the talk, I could tell what the main goal was: to create a general feeling of goodwill towards eBay in the audience.
Donahoe said that eBay had chosen 10 schools across the nation to
recruit at. The talk may have been meant to entice students to consider
eBay as a future career option, but to the students who weren't
considering working for eBay, the talk functioned as a sort of
word-of-mouth advertisement. By this I mean that eBay hopes the audience
will leave the lecture viewing the company in a positive light, and go
on to talk about eBat positively later (whether they do it on purpose or
not).Mike: Donahoe
talked about new PayPal services that would allow you to buy items in
advance (his example: Jamba Juice) and have it ready for you when you
arrive at the store. Also the employees would be able to know when you
arrived at the store at what your name was. He seemed to believe this
was a more personal way of doing business, however to me it seems more
of a move towards efficiency, or shoving as many people in and out of
Jamba Juice in a given time. (but being shoved through while being
addressed by your first name!) Really, I don't know if some people are
just really stupid, or if company's advertising model is, I would rather
just have someone be real with me than try to sell me on some bullshit,
especially when we both know it's bullshit. We know that companies are
only doing things that will increase their profit, and in terms of
making customer service more 'personable', they will only do it in a way
that doesn't affect other factors that could diminish profit. So the
level of importance these areas take is secondary or even tertiary to
much more critical forms of business, but covered in a thin and shallow
film that poses itself as centered around customer experience.
Entomology Festival and The X-Files
Hugh: I
attended the 30th Annual Insect Fear Film Festival on February 23. The
place was super crowded (see pictures) and there was an enormous
collection of insects on display. When I first got there, I didn't know
what to think, especially because I had only heard about this X-Files
episode they were going to be playing. Well not only was it just the
episode, but Chris Carter and Darin Morgan (the writer of the episode we
watched) and we watched the X-Files feature, "Flight of the Future"
Carolina: I want to start off by saying this has been the biggest
crowd I've seen out of all the lectures I've ever attended on campus thus far.
This made me think about what it is that students care about and why going to a
talk given by John Donahoe is much more sought after than any other lecture
I've gone to on campus, although I feel like other talks I've gone to or heard
about touch on important topics as well, that range from race to gun violence
to education. Does it really all come down to money? Is it all about
the Benjamin's??
"All
of these ideas seemed really exciting to him and a few
people in the audience but I felt a bit disturbed by the idea of
possibly never
having to stand in a line. That sounds like a world where people lose
contact
with each other at a rapid rate and where we rely on technology more
than we
should. It seemed like Donahoe kept mentioning that all of these new
technologies would be ways of enhancing the consumer’s experience while
also
keeping them connected. This was a claim that I had issues with because I
don’t
believe these technologies improve our abilities to create lasting or
meaningful human-to-human relationships but it instead limits us and
benefits the companies selling us these things we don't need. All of
these ways of "changing the world" just sounded like faster ways for
them to make their money. These new
ways of getting things when we want it,
where we want it, and how we want it transforms the ways we interact with
each other and negatively changes our behaviors, turning us into impatient, irritable
people who can't stand waiting a few minutes to get their Jamba Juice."Christian: Summary over, the best part of this entire talk was when I had the
opportunity to ask John Donahoe a question about not commcerce, not
eBay, but about basic human interaction, an ontological question. I
asked, „Today our relationships to our world has been defined by
dichotomies, inside vs outside, the internet vs the real world, science
vs art, and technology vs business. Too often are they separated from
one and the other as disparate. How do we change that? What is the fear
for combining the two as a single entity that works synergistically?“His answer, though fueled by his capitalist mindset, was overall humanistic, genuine. Selina: The Goal:Not too far into the talk, I could tell what the main goal was: to create a general feeling of goodwill towards eBay in the audience.
Donahoe said that eBay had chosen 10 schools across the nation to
recruit at. The talk may have been meant to entice students to consider
eBay as a future career option, but to the students who weren't
considering working for eBay, the talk functioned as a sort of
word-of-mouth advertisement. By this I mean that eBay hopes the audience
will leave the lecture viewing the company in a positive light, and go
on to talk about eBat positively later (whether they do it on purpose or
not).Mike: Donahoe
talked about new PayPal services that would allow you to buy items in
advance (his example: Jamba Juice) and have it ready for you when you
arrive at the store. Also the employees would be able to know when you
arrived at the store at what your name was. He seemed to believe this
was a more personal way of doing business, however to me it seems more
of a move towards efficiency, or shoving as many people in and out of
Jamba Juice in a given time. (but being shoved through while being
addressed by your first name!) Really, I don't know if some people are
just really stupid, or if company's advertising model is, I would rather
just have someone be real with me than try to sell me on some bullshit,
especially when we both know it's bullshit. We know that companies are
only doing things that will increase their profit, and in terms of
making customer service more 'personable', they will only do it in a way
that doesn't affect other factors that could diminish profit. So the
level of importance these areas take is secondary or even tertiary to
much more critical forms of business, but covered in a thin and shallow
film that poses itself as centered around customer experience.
Entomology Festival and The X-Files
Hugh: I attended the 30th Annual Insect Fear Film Festival on February 23. The place was super crowded (see pictures) and there was an enormous collection of insects on display. When I first got there, I didn't know what to think, especially because I had only heard about this X-Files episode they were going to be playing. Well not only was it just the episode, but Chris Carter and Darin Morgan (the writer of the episode we watched) and we watched the X-Files feature, "Flight of the Future"
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