https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh Made with the best of intentions en-us 2019-10-22 20:29:28 UTC 2026-01-20 02:29:14 UTC hello@padlet.com matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136636 How does New York City, or places in it, act as a setting for human interaction as well as human independence? How does the city itself function to help abject persons or to include them? ]]> 2019-10-22 20:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136636 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136789 How does this novel represent the mental health effects of abjection]]> 2019-10-22 20:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136789 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136858 How does Julius's career affect his role as narrator?]]> 2019-10-22 20:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401136858 kcmagee1 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401153601 Julius' status as an immigrant and a black man has given him a sense of isolation in which he doesn't belong to any one community.]]> 2019-10-22 21:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401153601 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401153966 So many people in a singular space makes it difficult not to interact with others. Yet, somehow, people are strangers to one another, lonely. 

Proximity does not necessarily produce community.

"The city is fantastic place because it is a site of great indifference." ]]> 2019-10-22 21:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401153966 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154207 You can feel lonely and isolated despite being in a crowded physical space.]]> 2019-10-22 21:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154207 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154381 2019-10-22 21:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154381 kcmagee1 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154436 V.'s book about the sufferings of Native Americans caused her to feel depressed. Taking on that history - which still affected her - was mentally taxing to the point where she needed to take a break. ]]> 2019-10-22 21:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154436 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154712 It provides his motivation to walk around the city.]]> 2019-10-22 21:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154712 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154882 "Walking through busy parts of town meant I laid
eyes on more people, hundreds more, thousands even, than I was accustomed to seeing in the course of a day, but the impress
of these countless faces did nothing to assuage my feelings of
isolation; if anything, it intensified them." (6)]]> 2019-10-22 21:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154882 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154985 Class is evident in storefronts. Differences in infrastructure mark differences in class. 

Walls exclude; bridges include. ]]> 2019-10-22 21:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401154985 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155073 Georg Simmel argues that the modern city is a place in which we experience greater freedom, but that our experience of freedom is not always felt positively.]]> 2019-10-22 21:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155073 kcmagee1 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155300 The taxi driver is upset that Julius (who he views to have similar experiences as him) would not be nice to him.]]> 2019-10-22 21:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155300 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155618 As a psychiatrist, he maintains his patient-confidentiality agreement throughout his thoughts, such as when he calls his patient "V." (pg. 26) ]]> 2019-10-22 21:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155618 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155691 Seth and Carla-- lived next door 
disgusted by dead body next door

There is a freedom in not being bound by relationships.

Expectations in the city to not involve each other in our neighbors' lives (and help them) seem to produce conditions of exclusion, abjection. No person is self-made. ]]> 2019-10-22 21:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401155691 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156219 "there is no place that is not HAUNTED [emphasis mine] by many different spirits"--de Certeau, pg/ 108]]> 2019-10-22 21:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156219 matthewreznicek https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156958 Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state--deCerteau 108]]> 2019-10-22 21:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156958 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156968 We do not actually see him at work. He is an observer, not a participant.]]> 2019-10-22 21:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/401156968 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286194  In relation to the janitor’s story, how does society ignore and/or look down upon those it perceives to be inferior?]]> 2019-10-24 20:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286194 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286378 How does a person’s initial judgement of individuals and groups of people leave them unwilling to dig deeper and learn their story?  Compare this to Dr. Maillotte’s views in chapter eleven.  ]]> 2019-10-24 20:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286378 https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286519 “We experience life as continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities,” (pg 155).  How have you seen this present in both the novel and your life?]]> 2019-10-24 20:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewreznicek/5pchuniewnbh/wish/402286519