Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Writing Against is a way of challenging social norms and thoughts - Coggle…
Writing Against is a way of challenging social norms and thoughts
Society and Power
James Baldwin- “Letter from a Region in My Mind
Selections- from “Against Equality”
Michael Hannon- “Against Heterosexuality”
Asa Seresin- “On Heteropessimism”
Joan Didion- “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
Trescientos McMillan Cottom- “This could be the Winning Issue”
David Wallace Wells- “Data Centers are a Distraction”
Omar El Akkad- “Excerpt from One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This”
Cotton and Wallace:Both can connect with having a public debate
Baldwin and El Akkad : Both have opportunities to talk about injustice
Theses readings question our society systems and expectations
Baldwin and Against Equality: Both have readers question equality in society
Hannon and Seresin: Both challenge assumptions with relationships
Nature and Grief
Joyce Carol Oates- “Against Nature”
Tiffany Lethabo King- “Racial Ecologies”
Blair Braverman- “Against Nature Writing”
Charles Foster- “Against Nature Writing”
Hanif Abdurraqib- “In Defense of Despair”
Christina Sharpe- “The Shapes of Grief”
Braverman and Foster: Both directly engage with nature and how nature should be represented
Abdurraqib and Sharpe: Both explore dealing with emotions and how people expect people to respond to suffering
Theses readings challenge society’s understanding of human emotions and nature
Oates and King: Both can be connected through questioning ideas about nature
Happiness and Love
Jim Holt- “Against Happyiness”
Phillip Lopate- “Against Jodie de Vivre”
Agnes Callard- “The case Aganist Travel”
Mark Greif- “Against Exercise “
Caroline Calloway- “The drug that Made me want less”
Laura Kipnis- “Against Love”
Greif and Callard: Both questions actives that society sees as beneficial
Calloway and Holt: Both can connect with questioning what people think they need
These authors question whether the things that society tells us will make us happy.
Holt and Lopate: Both questions society’s exceptions that people should always be happy
Holt and Kipnis: Both Challenge ideas about what makes life “fulfilling”
Writing, Reading, and Knowledge
Ivan Kreikamp- “Against X”
Rose Horowitch- The Ending is here”
Hannah Rosin- “Is the Age of reading over”
Susan Sontag- “Against Interpretation”
Ruth Graham- “Against YA”
Iris Murdoch- “Against Dryness”
Friedrich Nietzsche- “Nietzsche contra wagner”
Charli XCX- “Rock Music”
Nietzsche and Charli XCX: Both criticized an entire category
Theses writers are challenging how society values education and literature. They encourage readers to question our society’s traditional way of thinking.
Hororwitch and Rosin: Both question the future of reading
Sontag and Murdoch: Both challenged the ways of understanding the world