Political Fecology In Practice [1]
Using the absurd to confront the abject. Also, an old lady poops herself.
------ posted 11.16.2007 by Orion [2] (11)
An Update On Poop 101 [3]
An early-semester update from the most important college course in American history.
------ posted 10.01.2007 by PooProf [4] (20)
Poop 101: The Syllabus [5]
The ivory tower meets the porcelain throne.
------ posted 09.09.2007 by PooProf [6] (20)
Scatology, the Last Taboo: An Introduction to Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art [7]
An excerpt from the introduction to an anthology about the many forms and functions of scatology as literary and artistic troupe, provoked by what its editors perceive as the academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe.
------ posted 10.05.2004 by Jeff Persels an... [8] (10)
Brown Meets Green: the Political Fecology of PoopReport.com [9]
This paper analyzes PoopReport.com in a framework that connects the study of scatalogical cultural texts to an environmental perspective. This paper argues against the ways cultural theorists have tended to interpret scatological literature, film, art, etc., and uses PoopReport as a test case for the author's preferred mode of scatalogical cultural criticism: green-brown.
------ posted 02.11.2004 by M. Cortez [10] (60)
Tlaçolteotl is Dead: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Captain Bourke's Scatalogic Rites of All Nations [11]
When it was written in 1891, Scatalogic Rites was accepted as an ethnographic catalog of rituals involving human waste. In 1993, it was trimmed down to short, pithy excerpts and renamed The Portable Scatalog. The essay juxtaposes the 1890s with contemporary culture, and discusses why and how discourse of shit has been restricted to the medium of the joke.
------ posted 02.11.2004 by Daniel Gerling [12] (10)
Scatology: An Etiology, A Primer (or, Is It A Coincidence That "Theses" Rhymes With "Feces"?) [13]
The author is a graduate student in the Cultural Studies PhD program at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation topic is shit. In this essay, she attempts to reconcile these two facts while explaining the mysteries of the academic discipline that is -- or, at least, soon will be -- SCATOLOGY.
------ posted 10.21.2002 by M. Cortez [14] (60)
Fiction for the Unwashed Masses: Shit Crit and Stephen King's IT (abridged) [15]
This paper analyzes the role of shit in Stephen King's bestselling novel It in order to argue for the legitimacy of scatological criticism -- shit crit, for short. The dynamics of the novel demonstrate the political power of King's status as both a teller of scatalogical tales and an author of shitty talent in the eyes of literary critics. In his refusal to refuse shit, this paper argues, King critiques the historical and cultural forces that have contributed to a notion of consciousness that exists at the expense our acknowledgment of human corporeality and mortality.
------ posted 09.19.2002 by M. Cortez [16] (60)
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