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Friday, January 23, 2004

Blog Entry on Fight Club Essays

By Wednesday, you should write a 250-word response to one of the essays we are reading on Fight Club, either Imre Szeman and Henry Giroux's "Ikea Boy Fights Back," or Geoffrey Sirc's "Difficult Politics of the Popular." For your blog entry, answer one of the following questions:
  1. In an email, Imre Szeman reminded me that "Ikea Boy" was originally published in a more public magazine, New Art Examiner, while Geoffrey Sirc's essay was originally published in a journal devoted to the study of freshman composition. How might the different audiences affect the goals and arguments of each essay?
  2. Giroux and Szeman argue that Fight Club offers little analysis of why Tyler finds his life to be unsatisfying, that it "has nothing substantive to say about the structural violence of unemployment, job insecurity, cuts in public spending, and the destruction of institutions capable of defending social provisions and the public good" (96). To what extent does Fight Club fail to offer an effective alternative to consumer capitalism?
  3. Sirc, in his response to Szeman and Giroux, argues that composition students sould be more attentive to student responses to the film that found it intellectually engaging. Do you think that Sirc effectively supports his argument? How might Sirc's argument be limited?
  4. Sirc frames his essay with a discussion of avant-garde artist, Chris Burden. How does this framing narrative relate to Sirc's larger argument?
You aren't limited to addressing these questions, but they will provide the framework with which we will wrap up our discussion of Fight Club. Also remember to focus your blog entry on one issue, rather than trying to answer all three questions. Enjoy the weekend, and I will return your proposals on Monday.
Posted by: chutry / 9:10 AM
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