Final Flashcards
Woman tells stories every night to a king so that he doesn’t kill her
1001 Nights, no single author, French Translation 18th ce
Man recalls memories after eating a Madeleine, tying his shoes, and tripping on a loose flagstone
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
Man tries to recall a scene from Dante’s Inferno in Auschwitz and recalls the value of literature
“If This is a Man”, Primo Levi, 1947
“Love is shaped and produced by concrete social relations; (my aim is) to show that love circulates in a marketplace of unequal competing actors; and to argue that some people command greater capacity to define the therms in which they are loved than others”
Why Love Hurts, Eva Ilouz, 2011
“Sex is as culturally constructed as gender”
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler, 1990
“The modern individual family is founded on the open or concealed slavery of the of wife…Within the family he is the bourgeois and his wife represents the proletariat”
“The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State” F Engels, 1884
“Girls see the unwaged and often thankless task of keeping a home together and vow not to end up like that”
Woman Destroyed, (Lucienne speaking), Simone de Beauvoir, 1967
“The perfect type of wife-and-mother-and-nothing-else sees life only through another’s eyes; the artist through his own”
Marriage as a Trade, Cicely Hamilton, 1909
“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘tis woman’s sole existence”
“Don Juan”, Lord Byron, 1821
Man asks his mistress after sex whether she is “real” or not, a question that has serious complications in the era in which he lives
“Dussel”, Ian McEwan, 21st ce
“I see you, and you see me. I experience you, you experience me…But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me”
“The Politics of Experience” R.D. Laing, 1967
“I believe that in fifty years’ time it will be possible to program computers to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70% chance of making the right ID after 5 min of questioning”
Alan Turing, 1950
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”
“The Second Sex” Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
“I concluded I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists in thinking, and whose existence depends neither on its location in space not in any material thing…”
“Discourse on Method” Rene Descartes, 1637
“In the 21st century, feelings are no longer the best algorithms in the world. We are developing superior algorithms in which we utilize unprecedented computing power and giant data bases”
Homo Deus, Yuval Harari, 2016
“He who is subjected to a field of visibility and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles: he becomes the principle of his own subjection”
“Discipline and Punish” Michael Foucault, 1977
Amateur detective solves a gruesome crime using logic and realizes that an orangutan is the culprit.
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” E.A. Poe, 1841
“Multitude, solitude: equal and convertible terms for the active and fecund poet”
“The Crowds” Charles Baudelaire, 19th ce
Detective reads too much in to a crime scene and allows himself to be the subject of a criminal’s revenge.
“Death and the Compass” J.L. Borges, 1942
“Society requires a continuual outward avowal of inner states, a performance”
“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman, 1959
Sincerity is a performance of an affctive state socially that the person may sincerely believe to be real. Authenticity is a private, individual state in which self is not divided between the watcher and the watcher
“Sincerity and Authenticity” Lionel Trilling 1971
“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People had flashed onto the screen…There were hisses here and there among the audience…uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room…In its second minute the Hate rose into a frenzy”
1984, George Orwell, 1949
“Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache, O cruel, needless misunderstanding! […] But it was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. he loved Big Brother”
1984, George Orwell, 1949
“The uncanny realizes only one of the conditions of the fantastic: the descriptions of certain reactions, especially of fear. It is uniquely linked to the sentiment of the characters and not to a material event defying reason.”
“The Fantastic” Tzvetan Todorov, 1925
