The Ideological Anti-Rubric

You're waiting for some concise and quantifiable way for me to measure whether you've got your ideological artifact figured out.

Stop waiting, because that's impossible.

It's impossible because of its subjectivity and the very likely possibility that the way you interpret your chosen ideology and the way I see it is, at best, disparate.

Don't let that stop you. Instead, and this is a chicken/egg thing, give us an idea of what lens through which you've chosen to assess your ideology. Is it hegemonic? Semiotic? Marxist? Feminist?  Deconstructionist? The list doesn't end there.

This may be less painful if you identify an ideology that resonates with you, or one about which you wish to learn more. What a wonderful way to expand a horizon or two. Or you might identify a position that is 180 degrees out of phase with you, an idea so dissonant that it begs your analysis.

Ooh. I like that.

8 comments:

  1. Cody FarrerApril 5, 2012 at 2:45 PM

    It's always fun when you come up with a great line, huh?!?
    GOOD ONE

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  2. Roll'em ProductionsApril 5, 2012 at 10:16 PM

    Well it must gave been the egg. Didn't we all darrive from a protein carbon based goo and lightening?

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  3. Sasha TraeApril 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM

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  4. Sasha TraeApril 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM

    Wouldn't have guessed the "protein carbon based goo" comment to come from DJ! DJ is the "new" Jeff, I guess... ;)

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  5. AnonymousApril 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM

    Always great insight coming from you. I enjoy your classes and look forward to more of them in the future of the cohort. I am not trying to suck up I am being serious.Hahahaha!

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  6. Roll'em ProductionsApril 9, 2012 at 7:21 PM

    Sasha, I'm pretty sure that's but one theory that science has brought. I thought it was clever. :-) it made me think a bit.

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  7. JenApril 10, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    I like to live in familiarity, I don't want something that doesn't resonate with me. Sigh. I'm too tired to be challenged but I like that you always ask us to consider other interpretations and POV.

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  8. Jeff BordenApril 10, 2012 at 12:20 PM

    mmmm...protein!

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