Night's Cryptic Nave
Monday, March 20, 2006
Readings from Sarah's wedding
Song of Songs 2: 8-10, 14, 16; 8: 6-7
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away...
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely...
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies...
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
1 John 4: 7-12
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
From the King James Bible, which may not be the version that was used
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Sarah:
- Johnston (soon to be Webster): Friend from UBC, met through debate in the fall of 2002.
- Pemberton: Friend from UBC, who served as the TA for a political theory course I took with Gabe Mastico and Meghan Mathieson in 2003/4.
- Stewart: High school classmate, fellow drama participant, employee at a Starbucks I used to frequent.
- Stirk: Classmate from elementary school.
- McCosker: Oxfordian - D.Phil candidate in law at Brasenose
- MacLeod: Hall manager at Wadham College
Sunday, March 05, 2006
WEEK 8: NEO-MARXISM AND CRITICAL THEORY
This seminar will analyse two streams of critical theorising - one focused on Marxism and historical materialism and the other focused on emancipation.
1. What have dependency theory and Gramscian theories of hegemony added to our theoretical understanding of international relations?
Cox, Robert, Approaches to World Order (with Timothy Sinclair) (1996), esp. chs. 4, 6 and 7.
Germian, Randall, and M. Kenny, ‘Engaging Gramsci: International Relations Theory and the New Gramscians’, Review of International Studies, Vol. 24 (1988).
Rosenberg, Justin, The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations (1994).
Saturday, March 04, 2006
