Frameworks for successful analysis and
management of the structures of understanding.

Road Trip of the Mind

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UNIT 5   When Frames Collapse:
Reconfiguring knowledge in times of
upheaval and rapid change

Preparing your mind and heart for "The Drop"

Sample Journal: Road Trip #5--Back from Mozambique

Overview

These reading explore how we view ourselves, our roles, and the world.  How much of what we know has been told to us by others? How much of it have we determined for ourselves?  Are we preconditioned to accept, then reject the identities imposed upon us by family, friends, and society at large?  When do these clashes result in the need to examine one's own ethics?

Readings
THEORETICAL BASES

Baudrillard, Jean.  "Simulacra and Simulations" in Selected Writings. 2nd ed. Edited and introduced by Mark Poster.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 2001.

Barthes, Roland.  "The Uncertainty of Signs" in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. trans. Richard Howard.  NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

Barthes, Roland.  "Ornamental Cookery" in
Mythologies.  trans. Annette Lavers. NY: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Sontag, Susan.  "Notes on "Camp"" (1965)

What is an Urban Legend?
Carl Sagan (1996) "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark"

Walker, Alice.  "Looking for Zora"  (1975)


FILM
My Son, The Fanatic (dir. Udayan Prasad, 1999)

Mississippi Masala (dir. Mira Nair, 1992)


LITERATURE--PROSE
Abdoh, Salar.
The Poet Game (2000)

Lewis, Sinclair
from "Babbit"  (1922)
Chapter XII


POETRY
Thomas Nashe
"Litany in a Time of Plague" (Adieu, Earth's fair bliss)

W. B. Yeats
"The Second Coming" (gyres ... & what rough beast slouches toward bethlehem to be born?)

Sharon Olds  (understanding via family ties)
"High School  Senior" (from The Wellspring"

John Ashbery
"My Philosophy of Life"  (looking at your life self-consciously -- like the philosophers did/do)

Gwendolyn  Brooks
"We Real Cool" (1960)

Horace
Book 1, No. 11 (don't be too eager to ask what the gods have in mind for us)

Amy Clampit
"Fog" (a vagueness comes over everything)

Christina Rosetti
"Up-Hill"  (Does the road wind up-hill all the way?)

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Timeline of Work
Unit 1  Personal Frames: The structures of individual knowledge and perception
Unit 2  Cultural Frames: Moving outside one's own frame
Unit 3   When Worlds Collide: The clash of frames
Unit 4  Frameworks of Debate:  Moving beyond simply taking sides
Unit 5  When Frames Collapse: Reconfiguring knowledge in times of upheaval and rapid change
Unit 6  The Big Frame: Global villages and beyond
Unit 7  Who's Watching the Frame?:
Discussions on the Limits of Self-Expression
Unit 8  Frameworks for Community Building
Unit 9  Colonialist Frames:  The Myths and Realities of "Tribalism"

Unit 10  Hammering Out Your Own Frame:  Reconfiguring Perception for Times of Change

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Road Trip of the Mind
Guidebook for the Intrepid Traveler
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by Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
© 2002