layne343Feb 12, 202319 min readYour Granny LiedTeaching Patriarchal Violence and Neocolonialism with Disney’s Moana Did your granny say listen to your heart Be who you are on the...
layne343Apr 17, 20223 min readThe After Party The Lost Final Scene of Plato's Symposium Apollodorus: One more thing, I said to Glaucon. Aristodemus further recounted that in the...
layne343Mar 8, 202210 min readDisciplining Bodies: Reflections on Foucault, Young and hooksFor section 2 of The Philosophy of Human Nature, students read a chapter from Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Young's "Throwing Like a...
layne343Feb 2, 202214 min readDay 2, 3 and 4: The Second Sex, The Man of Reason, Sexism and a dash of SpeculumOkay, 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...
layne343Jan 29, 20225 min readErotic Pedagogy Part 1Definitions *Erotic is a technical term for the soul's desire (which transcends the sexual) and internal resource and even poverty, i.e....
layne343Jan 29, 202211 min readFirst Day of Class: Teaching Plato's Allegory of the Cave and bell hook's Teaching to TransgressThis semester, I decided to try a new text to begin the course, bell hook's Teaching to Transgress alongside Plato's infamous allegory of...
layne343Jan 3, 20221 min readComing SoonOkay, 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...
layne343Aug 3, 20212 min readWhat is Erotic Philosophy?Western philosophy has historically valorized reason and absolute knowledge as the cornerstones of what it means to be human. While this...