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Week 10 - Response to Ben V: Week 10 - Wednesday
Ben brought up our closing conversation in class around the fan fiction phenomenon around cult classics like Star Trek and Star Wars. In particular, those stories that might develop around the stories… more →
Pacing the Cage
Week 10 - Response to Ben V: Week 10 - Wednesday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Ben brought up our closing conversation in class around the fan fiction phenomenon around cult class … more →
Week 10 - Wednesday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: It took me a bit of time and question asking to understand the aspect of the audience/consumer actua … more →
Week 10 - Models...Theology: Bevans; Conclusion
Brian wrote 1 year ago: After being caught up in thinking of my life and experiences in the lenses of the models contained i … more →
Week 10 - Theology...Culture: Cobb; Conclusion
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Cobb’s closing thoughts give rise to his convictions and intersection with cultural studies: b … more →
Week 10 - Monday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: I was struggling a great deal today with the cycle of cultural studies that we focus on: producers, … more →
Week 9 - Outline Revision/Thoughts
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Brian wrote 1 year ago: After reading this last chapter out of Cobb, I’ve thought about the common idyllic imprint sha … more →
Week 9 - Response to Darren (Week 9. . .Life Everlasting)
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Darren brings up an aspect of our faith that Cobb intonates that has long been left behind in modern … more →
Week 9 - Theology. . .Culture: Cobb; Chp. 9
Brian wrote 1 year ago: In his closing offering around culture and a means of approaching it from a faith perspective, Cobb … more →
Week 9 - Monday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: In the understanding of genealogy offered by Foucault, those who have power dictate meaning, and tha … more →
Week 9 - Wednesday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: After watching Merchant’s of Cool and seeing the utter capitalization of youth, I was struck w … more →
Week 8 - Final Outline, First Draft
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Brian wrote 1 year ago: Final Paper Outline I. Space/Place in the Wilderness a. Space/Place in “civilization” as separated f … more →
Week 9 - Models...Theology: Bevans; Chp. 9
Brian wrote 1 year ago: The counter cultural model is not anticultural, but instead recognizes that culture, context, social … more →
Week 8 - Response to Michael Huang (Bevan's Chapter 8...)
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Michael echo’s those concerns that are quite dangerous in the Transcendental model, to be sure … more →
Week 8 - Models...Theology: Bevans; Chp. 8
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Bevans here offers a model that is rooted not in knowing, practice or culture as the foundation for … more →
Week 8 - Theology...Culture: Cobb; Chp. 8
Brian wrote 1 year ago: After proposing that redemptive violence, music (as rock/roll roots, protest songs, love songs, and … more →
Week 8 - Wednesday (Deconstruction Exercise)
Brian wrote 1 year ago: After today’s conversation about deconstruction, I still am confused as to how something good … more →
Week 8 - Monday
Brian wrote 1 year ago: Our post-modern context and bentness is rife with the deconstructionism that Derrida introduced in t … more →
Week 7 - Response to Joe (Barker [Politics])
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Brian wrote 1 year ago: I’d never put together Jim Wallis and his understanding of our current culture and the connect … more →
Week 7 - Models...Theology: Bevans; Chp. 7
Brian wrote 1 year ago: This model is indeed complex, and seemingly one that includes a myriad of the cultural and contextua … more →
