Why do I do this to myself?
Oh, right, because I like it.
The semester started last week, and I realized this on the first day of classes. I knew students were going to be back on the day after Martin Luther King Day, but not having attended a school with semesters for over 5 years, I forgot what that meant. I made the mistake of looking up what classes were going to be offered in March. March, I thought, when the spring semester starts.
I discovered, as hinted to above, that I was mistaken and, more damagingly, I found that a class was being offered this semester called "Performance and Social Change". Remember a few months ago when I had a crisis of faith in theatre? Well, this class sounded like the precise antidote to my feeling of superfluousness in my art form. So I knew that I had to be in this class. The first day of class did not disappoint. And our first set of readings included Freire which reinforced my belief that I was correct in taking this class. Of course, now all of you will have to put up with my vocabulary shifting for the next few months to include phrases like "the existing banking form of education between the oppressor and oppressed must transform into a dialogical relationship and not just switch the poles of the existing dichotomy, thus humanizing both the oppressor and the oppressed". Hopefully by the end of this course, I will be able to speak in a more normal voice but with the same liberating meaning.
Posted by silsby at January 25, 2005 07:02 PMDamn the Man!
Save the Empire!
My post on indie music was the *next* one.
Maybe you are right, I should blend fringe pop-culture movies from the 90s with indie music radio stations of today and the class I am taking. Anthony LaPaglia's character was a man caught between the oppressor/oppressed model of management and the liberation model.
Posted by silsby at February 1, 2005 08:56 AM