I was really delighted with all the prizes that were announced at STOC this year.
Our own Pasin Manurangsi received the Danny Lewin STOC Student Paper Award for his work on the hardness of the dense k-subgraph problem. 646 more words
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Finding meaning in the Madness: Psychoanalytic and Marxist Criticisms of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
For this post I would like to take a moment to explore the concept of theory in literature. Also called critical theory or literary theory, 4,654 more words
Stuart Hall and Cultural Identities
Stuart Hall’s 1989 essay, “Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation,” is a seminal piece on race and identity, situated on the crossroads between film studies and cultural theory. 834 more words
Toothpaste for the Young Poet
Wikipedia Poem, No. 514
to rescue to operate on
the marks of infinity to be
transcended against one's will
time rubbed into lather
for your opponent every deck
underhanded or made gape
i'm less
jorie grammatically
buys a vowel
your immediate opportunity tomorrow
fidget spinner i promise
it's not you it's me this working problem has
your poem
wants to be bleach with its brief
heavy handed whitening as declension
suicide i'm still
novice be let bezos-loose
keep it just write deep mystery
new tooth shapes become octuplets
holding hands ripe bipedal feelings
unbruised "skin the concerned"-essential
is this how surprise
tastes? 42 more words
Recognizing Theory in Media
Siner’s article on the recent implementation of free community college for most adult students in Tennessee is an example of Critical Theory. The article emphasizes that higher education is unavailable to many non-traditional students because of the high cost (Tennessee already offers free community college for graduating high school students). 144 more words
My Initial Comfort With Theory: A Reflection
As a trained literary analyst, I am very comfortable with a few types of theory. I have used Literary Deconstruction on a number of different texts. 379 more words
