https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-72972 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:28:59 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2879#comment-72972 Would you please do a piece on the administration’s recently announced College Scorecard and what, if anything, it reveals about Swarthmore? Thank you

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-72971 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:16 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2879#comment-72971 I’m not sure why interpretations of cultural meaning should be expected to be empirical.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-72969 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:59:13 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2879#comment-72969 Is not catharsis also a reaction to intense images or stories? Where is there anything even vaguely empirical in this discussion, rather than simply anecdotal and framing?

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-72968 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:55:47 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2879#comment-72968 More it is that Foucault’s “What Is an Author” aligns with and I think completes Barthes’ initial line of attack on intention.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/09/04/putting-out-fire-with-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-72967 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:58:46 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2879#comment-72967 You conflate Barthes’ “Death of the Author” with Foucault’s “What is an Author?” … but then that might be a postmodern thing to do …

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