Choose one page from the Dolan reading to annotate; based on those annotations choose a single sentence/quote/idea that you’d like to discuss in your section on Thursday – post a screenshot of your annotation (as you did in the fall) and your discussion quote/idea.
Writing in black ink and the highlighting done in yellow are from the initial round of annotations. The writing in blue ink and the highlighting done in green are from the second round of annotations.
Below I have typed out my annotations to make them more accessible. The left column contains my initial annotations while the right column contains the expansions to my annotations.
“Utopian performatives, in their doings, make palpable an effective vision of how the world might be better.”
If this is done then maybe this will happen.
“Of embodiment, social relations, ideological interpellations, emotional and political effects…”
“…between someone’s body and the conventions of embodiment, we have access to cultural meanings and critique.”
Looking in versus looking out.
“Theater and performance”
Criticizes society but also offers solutions.
“By offering such concentrated, interpersonal, and ‘wish’-oriented moments, theater…”
“… another dimension of existence be revealed, and that the impossible be achieved/experienced here and now…”
New realities, new possibilities unvieled.
United by what is being witnessed/experienced.
“… but a utopia always in process, always only partially grasped,”
Always changing.
“‘need to reconceptualize the utopian in historical, this-worldly terms, as a process that involves human agency.”
“… the partial vision is the more utopian.'”
Unable to see all of this “utopia” but is seen is enough for one to think they’ve seen/understood the “utopia”.
“make palpable an effective vision of how the world might be better.”
An offering of a vision of hope.
“As soon as performativity comes to rest on a performance”
Acting as more than doing.
“Discussable”
“Risky and dangerous negotiation”
“(a reiteration of norms)”
Ideas are more easy to grasp and understand.
Wider perspective.
One form of social commentary.
“scrutinize public meanings”
“Doings”
Taking action
“gesture toward a much better world”
“Dynamic expression of the intense life”
“privileged intimate area of human expreience”
“a sense of unity between what is usually divided in our daily life:”
new solutions!
“the material and immaterial , the human body and spirit”
what is usually overlooked, not considered but highly important.
“fleeting contact with a utopia not stabilized by its own finished perfection”
changing, no firm base
“reconceptualize”
“process that involves human agency”
“the partial vision”
“the partial vision is the more utopian”
partial vision is better than none, it shows some thought has been put into it, work has been put into it.
