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Your Granny Lied
Teaching Patriarchal Violence and Neocolonialism with Disney’s Moana Did your granny say listen to your heart Be who you are on the...
layne343
Feb 12, 202319 min read


The After Party
The Lost Final Scene of Plato's Symposium Apollodorus: One more thing, I said to Glaucon. Aristodemus further recounted that in the...
layne343
Apr 17, 20223 min read


Disciplining Bodies: Reflections on Foucault, Young and hooks
For section 2 of The Philosophy of Human Nature, students read a chapter from Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Young's "Throwing Like a...
layne343
Mar 8, 202210 min read


Day 2, 3 and 4: The Second Sex, The Man of Reason, Sexism and a dash of Speculum
Okay, so this semester, after the first day on the Allegory of the Cave and bell hook's Teaching to Transgress (where the main point is...
layne343
Feb 2, 202214 min read


Erotic Pedagogy Part 1
Definitions *Erotic is a technical term for the soul's desire (which transcends the sexual) and internal resource and even poverty, i.e....
layne343
Jan 29, 20225 min read


First Day of Class: Teaching Plato's Allegory of the Cave and bell hook's Teaching to Transgress
This semester, I decided to try a new text to begin the course, bell hook's Teaching to Transgress alongside Plato's infamous allegory of...
layne343
Jan 29, 202211 min read


Coming Soon
Okay, so doing this blog after every class didn't go as planned. Getting used to teaching during a pandemic after a year and a quarter...
layne343
Jan 3, 20221 min read


What is Erotic Philosophy?
Western philosophy has historically valorized reason and absolute knowledge as the cornerstones of what it means to be human. While this...
layne343
Aug 3, 20212 min read
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