Analects of the Core: Bourdieu on successful ideologies

March 7, 2011 at 2:08 pm

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicit silence.

— sociologist Pierre Bourdieu

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E-bulletin for Monday, March 7, 2011

March 7, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Lectures This Week

Tonight!

Get a head start on Dante! This evening, Professor Peter Hawkins of Yale University will speak on "America's Underworld: Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy." Birk is a painter who illustrated the Commedia by depicting decadent urban spaces in LA, NYC, and San Francisco. 5:30 PM at The Castle. Refreshments will follow.

    This Week

    • Wednesday, March 9. The Core Film Series presents Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood twist on Austen's classic story. Dinner at 6 PM, film at 6:15, in CAS B-36.
    • The Core Journal is now accepting submissions for the 2011 issue, through the new deadline of March 25. Editor Reenat Sinay says: "Leave your mark on the Core community! Submit by March 11th!" Email submissions, of art and academic and creative writing, to corejournal@gmail.com.
    • Tuesday, March 8. An encore showing of "Fallujah," by Evan Sanderson. Following a powerful encounter with a dead soldier, a journalist is compelled to return to Fallujah on the eve of its destruction. The School of Theatre’s official 2011 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival entry. 7:30 PM in CFA room 106.

    Coming Up

    The Ecolympics presents two documentary films on sustainability. On Thursday, March 24, see Crude, about the Texaco/Chevron oil disaster in the Amazon. And on Thursday, March 31, see Home, a look at what we as consumers have done to our planet. Both films are in CAS B-36 at 7 PM.

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    Core Ecoquotes Project, pt.1

    March 4, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    On behalf of the Ecolympics organizing committee, Prof. Daniel Hudon writes...

    Thanks to Prof. Stephanie Nelson for kicking off the Core Eco-Quotes Project in conjunction with the Ecolympics. She points out that the philosopher Lao Tzu has some great eco-quotes, such as this one, from the 8 section of the Tao Te Ching:

    Best to be like water
    Which benefits the ten thousand things
    And does not contend

    and this one, from the 29th section:

    The world is a spiritual vessel
    And cannot be controlled

    She also brought to our attention two quotes from poet William Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey." Here are lines 107 to 111:

    well pleased to recognize
    in nature and the language of the sense
    The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
    The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
    Of all my moral being.

    and here are lines 122 to 123:

    Nature never did betray
    The heart that loved her.

    Thanks to Professor Nelson for your contributions!

    Prof. Anthony Corsentino also pointed out us a great quote from the Tao, section 53:

    The Great TAO is very smooth,
    But people like rough trails.

    The government is divided,
    Fields are overgrown,
    Granaries are empty,
    But the nobles' clothes are gorgeous,
    Their belts show off swords,
    And they are glutted with food and drink.
    Personal wealth is excessive.

    This is called thieves' endowment,
    But it is not TAO.

    Thanks Professor Corsentino!

    It would be great to get some student contributions for the Project. So keep your eyes and your mind open for eco-themed quotes as you're doing your Core readings! Email anything you come across to hudon@bu.edu, to be included in a future round-up.

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    Analects of the Core: Austen on vanity and pride

    March 4, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

    -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5. Lynn Festa will be lecturing to the students of CC202 on P&P, this coming Tuesday.

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    Analects of the Core: Virgil on Euryalus’ death

    March 3, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    "Euryalus,

    Poor fellow, where did I lose you? Where shall I

    Hunt for you? Back all the winding way,

    That maze of woodland?"

    - Virgil, The Aeneid (Boox IX, 551-554)

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    Postcards to the Core: from Spain

    March 3, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    ¡Hola Core Family!

    I traveled to London with some friends last weekend and actually got to see this painting in person! I also ran into about half of BU at the dorms there, haha. I hope you all are doing well and the freshmen are continuing on to their second year in the fall. I'll try and send another postcard soon, one on which I wrote a 15-page research paper -- haha! Off to Barcelona this weekend - excuse my English if it's a little off right now -- I've been speaking as much Spanish as possible!

    Hasta Luego! - Annaliese Godderz

    Annaliese (CAS '12) is a 2010 graduate of the Core, on study abroad this semester with the CIEE program in Alicante, Spain. The image on her postcard is "A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889" by Van Gogh (The National Gallery, London). Her twentieth-first birthday was yesterday... ¡feliz cumpleaños from the Core!

    postcard

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    Five reasons YOU should do the Ecolympics

    March 3, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Prof. Daniel Hudon gives five great reasons for YOU to register for, and to participate in, the 2nd annual Ecolympics.

    The Ecolympics are coming: April 1-15, 2011
    Help mobilize for Planet Earth.

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    Tonight: EnCore Book Club reads Hemingway

    March 2, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    First edition of The Sun Also Rises, 1926

    First edition of The Sun Also Rises, 1926

    A reminder to Boston-area alumni, that the EnCore Book Club will be convening this evening, Wednesday, March 2, at 6 PM in the BU Alumni Lounge at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, to discuss their reading of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

    If you were unable to make the previous EnCore Book Club meetings, or would like to get started, now would be a wonderful time to take part in the same kind of deep and intellectually stimulating discourse held in the Core, as alumni. Visit the Facebook event page to RSVP, and to see who has already said they plan to attend.

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    Leave your mark!

    March 2, 2011 at 11:43 am

    The Social Media Manager for the Core Journal -- Reenat Sinay, Core '11 CAS '13 -- wants to remind you about the deadline for submissions:

    Leave your mark on the Core community! Submit by March 11th!

    Art, poetry, fiction, essays, classwork, photography, analects, interview suggestions -- whatever text or image you feel represents your experience in the Core -- should be sent to corejournal@gmail.com. All enrolled students are eligible for publication -- even juniors and seniors who have complete the Core -- but sophomores especially are encouraged to submit. This is an exciting change to be part of the twentieth issue of this long-running publication.

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    Analects of the Core: Virgil on Aeneas’ last words to Dido

    March 2, 2011 at 11:16 am

    “Dido, do forlorn,

    The story then that came to me was true,

    That you were out of life, had met your end

    By your own hand. Was I, was I the cause?

    I swear by heaven's stars, by the high gods,

    By any certainty below the earth,

    I left your land against my will, my queen.

    The gods' commands drove me to do their will,

    As now they drive me through this world of shades,

    These mouldy waste lands and depths of night.

    And I could not believe that I would hurt you

    So terribly by going. Wait a little.

    Do not leave my sight.

    Am I someone to flee from? The last word

    Destiny lets me say to you is this.”

    - Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI, 613-628)

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