<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title></title>
	<link>http://insurgentsummer.org</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:22:27 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Thanks to Everyone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in college, a friend introduced me to critical theory and warned, &#8220;You will never be happy again.&#8221;  He was sort of right, but being an eternal optimist, I managed to channel my feelings into anger instead of being depressed like my friend.  Having grown up a shooting academic star in a working-class, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/614</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Humility and Endings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my associates have not been following this project  over the summer. I have been excited about taking on the intensity of  writing (and reading) every week but have done it largely alone. The web  site hasn’t been that active. Comments on my blog have been nearly  non-existent. Even the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/616</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ariel – Incest and Child Sexuality (Part Three)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Part Two concluded by pointing out: "If we are to seriously consider the question of childhood sexuality, how  can we do that without knowing what the children think or feel? We have  no way to gauge how freely they are engaging in these activities and  how much is coercion or a feeling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/568</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ariel &#8211; Incest and Child Sexuality (Part Two)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Part One concluded by asking what is "typical of the love found in Perlman’s novel"?  Ariel suggests that "it seems to be a  predominately sexual love, or another way of putting this is that the  only time the word love is used is when it is referencing a sexual  relationship. While non-sexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/566</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ariel &#8211; Incest and Child Sexuality (Part One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The following is Part One of a three-part contribution by Ariel Amend-All. Parts Two and Three will be posted over the next few days. - IT]

* * * * * * * *
My post will be broken up into three parts because I am covering a few chapters in one go. Also, I&#8217;m trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/564</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Now, You Understand Me Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I said in my introductory entry, years ago I told someone I was somewhat envious that he was about to read this last section for the first time, that the ending was that good. While Sophia&#8217;s half of the story had its climax in her ninth letter, Yarostan&#8217;s story peaks here, specifically during and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/575</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Happy Birthday Fredy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all grateful to Fredy Perlman, born August 20, 1935, for his activist and intellectual life and legacy.  The opportunity to collectively read (or re-read) Letters of Insurgents &#8211; in an age which is generationally beyond its moment of writing but nonetheless still evokes the same clouds of internal and external repression that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/583</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>I have known Damans, Alecs and Teds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sophia&#8217;s Ninth Letter features a few strong, minor characters. These three archetypal  characters dominate the Letter and, as archetypes, I have known (or been)  each of them. Here are a few of our stories.

Daman &#8211; The perfect student-teacher turned ideological director
&#8220;He apparently decided that the only meaningful human  activity was the total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/557</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Things and People, Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Letters continue to separate out those who are focused on &#8220;things&#8221; and those who are focused on people.  They call into question just how in touch our characters are with their own desires, and clarify the extremely high costs of some of those desires.  If a revolution is supposed to make all desires [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/550</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Decades of Friendships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The plot is thickening, and also quickening. Yarostan&#8217;s letter is quite intense this time around, and Sophia&#8217;s letter begins to tie up loose ends of the story. Yarostan has heard that foreign armies surround his country, ready to restore order if lawlessness persists. “Freedom inside a cage is still slavery,” he says, and I feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://insurgentsummer.org/archives/543</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

