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[Haley Nathanson]

GOOGLE "Deleuze":

Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925–November 4, 1995) was one of the most influential and prolific French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a “pure metaphysician.”

One of the barriers to Deleuze’s being better read among mainstream philosophers is the difficulty of his writing style in his original works (as opposed to his historical works, which are often models of clarity and concision). Deleuze’s prose can be highly allusive, as well as peppered with neologisms; to make matters even more complex, these terminological innovations shift from one work to the other. While claims of intentional obscurantism are not warranted, Deleuze did mean for his style to keep readers on their toes, or even to “force” them to rethink their philosophical assumptions.

[Haley Nathanson]

First-person research practices address the ability of individual researchers to foster an inquiring approach to their own lives, to act awarely and choicefully, and to assess effects in the outside world while acting. First-person inquiry skills are essential for those who would provide leadership in any social enterprise.

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Textual- comes from the Latin word textualis, the adjective form of textus, ("text"). If you see the word, it is always related to some written material. This word is most commonly used in the study of religion, literature, philosophy, or the law — any field requiring the careful examination of various texts.

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Criticism - the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.

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Anthony Giddens- British political adviser and educator born in 1938. Had a concept of a “third way”, a political program not limited by the tradition of left-right political dichotomy. Was a member of the House of Lords and has written many books.

[Haley Nathanson]

* Self-reflection: Self-reflection is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and to attempt to learn more about their fundamental nature and essence.
One time I went away to a spa for the weekend and was able to do some self-reflecting during my trip since I was alone and away from the rest of the world.

*Participative observation: requires the researcher to become integrated into the participants' environment while also taking objective notes about what is going on. Mostly used when someone is looking to take on the role they are studying.
Before I was elected as a member of my sororities council, I had to shadow an older member and conduct participative observation to learn about the job.

*Symbolic interaction: is a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society. Looks at how people make sense of their world.

*Auto-ethnography: Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience.
Someone looking to give voice to personal experience for tae purpose of extending sociological understanding would use Auto-ethnography.

*Dichotomous thinking: All or nothing way of thinking.
In extreme situations people tend to use Dichotomous thinking to get to their end result.

*Structuring: organizing and constructing something in a certain way.
I have a particular way I like to structure my study guides and class notes.

*Interpretation: an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language.
My interpretation of the conversation was a lot different than Bob's.

[Haley Nathanson]

Deep learning is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks.
Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised, deep learning tends to be unsupervised.

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Soft power is the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce (hard power). Soft power is the ability to shape the preferences of others through appeal and attraction.

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The Technologies of Lived Abstraction book series includes transdisciplinary works that critically and creatively inquire into processes of emergence in the world today. Thought and body, abstract and concrete, local and global, individual and collective: works in this series are not content to rest with such habitual divisions. They explore how these facets come together, if only to form the movement by which they come again to differ.


Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montréal. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation and A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari

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Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers. Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography

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Multitude by Hardt and Negri

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by post-marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, published in 2004. It is the second installment of a "trilogy. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order.

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ANECDOTAL THEORY:literary scholar Jane Gallop argues that all theory is bound up with stories and urges theorists to pay attention to the "trivial," quotidian narratives that theory all too often represses.Published during the 1990s, these essays are united through a common methodological engagement. Gallop addresses many of the major questions of feminist theory, regularly revisiting not only ‘70s feminism, but also poststructuralism and the academy, for, as Gallop explains, the practice of anecdotal theory derives from psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism.