ENGLISH 106 Dr. Kurt Voss-Hoynes WRITING ASSIGNMENT 4.docx

ENGLISH 106
Dr. Kurt Voss-Hoynes
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 4
—OR—
ASSIGNMENT 3.2
RESEARCH PAPER
DUE DATE: The LAST DAY of class—Monday, December 5,
2016
LENGTH: 5–6 pages (must not exceed 7 pages).
NEED HELP?: Send me an email at [email protected] or
schedule a time to meet with me
in my office (Ashe #417-A).
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES: This essay must be an expansion
of your third essay. More
specifically, in the final part of essay 3, you established an
argument that responded to your critical
essay. In this essay, you must pick a primary source (see me if
you are unsure about what your
primary source should be) and explore your argument. Please
make certain you include the
following:
1. The proper heading.
2. A title

3. A proper introduction.
4. A clearly articulated 2-sentence thesis.
5. At least one more outside source (in addition to your primary
source and the article that you
used for the foundation of paper 3).
6. A proper conclusion.
7. A works cited page and in-text citations.
CITATION METHOD: Following whatever guidelines are most
prominent in your field, provide
a “Works Cited”/ “References” page, and cite page numbers in
the paper according to convention.
mailto:[email protected]
GRADING RUBRIC
A
90–100
Points
THIS TYPE OF PAPER…
-organized, logical, and coherent.

language with outstanding precision.
described above.
B
80–89
Points
in class.
pports claims with evidence from the text.
-organized, logical, and coherent
but may have some weak spots
(occasional gaps in logic, awkward transitions, and other
structural inconsistencies).
.
guidelines described above.
C
70–79
Points

izational flaws (several logical
inconsistencies and a pronounced lack of
structure).
guidelines described above.
D
60–69
Points
F

1
2
Leo Li
ENG 106
Professor Kurt-Voss Hoynes
Nov. 18, 2016
Neoliberalism vs. Biopolitics
Under the reign of neoliberalism, the United States seems
to have been changed to being anti-democratic than it has ever
been witnessed before
. Neoliberalism has been introduced to serve as the reference
and pillar
for all consultation and basis of matter of politics, economic
state of the nation, government, rationality and even morally by
the article. The article “Beyond the biopolitics of disposability:
Rethinking neoliberalism in the new gilded age” seeks to
establish the effects brought about by use of biopolitics to
realign corporate power though the market forces. Biopolitics
has brought more harm than good in the intersection and
existence of race and class. New suffering has been experienced
with the reigning bio political systems.
Foucault
describes biopolitics as a technology of power that has been
turned on the citizens, his
article discusses the negative aspect of biopolitics revealing the
darker side that is less explored by such philosophers.

Biopolitics has been used a tool for using rules to control
people without the rightful consideration of their views and
opinions on various matters. Biopolitics has, indeed, brought a
new element in the addressing of issues at the judicial systems
and disciplinary techniques in the United States.
The author
, however, notes that the understanding of the term is critical.
Some
have relied on various meanings of biopolitics that have been
misleading to their own detriment. One of the results of the
biopolitical system is the objectification of human beings. More
so the women which has been on lines of discrimination
. The thin line has been crossed of viewing people for their
worth and who they are and objectification into some sorts of
machines has been observed especially in the corporate world.
Biopolitical savage
in this manner becomes a tool of savageness rather than a tool
for reform and to help enact human rights. Human life process
has been mismanaged explains the author and has led to the
trampling with the roles of citizens more so that lay man who is
not in any leadership role.
Their knowledge and skills have been taken advantage of and
power has been misused by those in the leadership roles. The
author calls out for newer action or the eradication of the
biopolitical reigns if it results into chaos rather than prevailing
harmony.
The article discusses concepts of biopolitics with a firm
standing that examines the biopolitical system in the colonial
era and the handling of the matter in the ancient times. The
findings are more negatinge with the hopes of shedding light on
some measures to correct the contemporary phenomena.
Biopolitics brings a border
to politics and human life. This is a gray area that should be
treated with respect, lest

it aggravates and creates chaos in the political system,
governance, domestic and legal dimensions of the state. When
biopolitics is used as a measure to critique and shed bad light
on the government, a lot more harm is caused than good.
The logic of a free market controlling the United States is
depicted with enactment of some of some biopolitical concepts.
This is such as the declaration of value on some non-economic
issues and facets such as human life.
This becomes wrong on so many levels and aspects of human
existence. My view, coincides with that of the author, that upon
hints
of human objectification, biopolitics should be dropped at the
mention of it. Perceiving of human life in economic terms is
inhumane and against human rights.
However, moving away from the negative aspects brought about
by the effects of biopolitics a few positive elements are worth
noticing. Biopolitics has been used to control the population to
avoid instances of overpopulation bringing up measures to
control the birth rates. This is a moral issue and to some extent
a religious one hence carefully handling by the government
being paramount. The rules and regulations put up have to be
humane and respect the mere existence of human life rather than
view population as a political problem or opportunity.
References
Collier, S. J. (2011). Post-Soviet social: neoliberalism, social
modernity, biopolitics. Princeton University Press.
Giroux, H. A. (2008). Beyond the biopolitics of disposability:
Rethinking neoliberalism in the new gilded age. Social
Identities, 14(5), 587-620.
�Has it been or not?

�Clarify this idea.
�What do you mean by this?
�This is good but you could make the connection between
neoliberalism and biopolitics more apparent.
�Where did he come from?
�Whose article? Foucault’s or the article you discuss above. In
fact, you should introduce the author’s name somewhere. If it is
the article above, you need to turn this second clause into its
own sentence.
�Use the name.
�Who?
�This isn’t a complete thought.
�Clarify this sentence.
�Is this missing an article? You need to define this idea.
�Restructure—the idea gets lost.

�Why is this important?
�What do you mean by this?
�How will it do these things?
�Restructure.
�Clarify.
�What you have here has the potential to turn into quite a good
paper. However, you need to continue to work on defining the
scope of your essay—as it stands, you seem to want to talk
about the relationship between biopolitics, neoliberalism,
government, the public sphere, and the private sphere. While all
of these can be discussed, for a 4–6 -page paper, it is just too
much. Indeed, if you choose to discuss all of these things you
will probably end up not being able to either fully explore or
support your ideas. Nevertheless, this is a good start.
Voss-Hoynes 1
Kurt Voss-Hoynes
English 106

18 November 2016
What’s the State of a Nation?
Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on
the Origins and Spread of
Nationalism articulates that nationalism, or feeling as if one
shares a space or set of beliefs with
another, began during the Industrial Revolution. More
specifically, because of the decline in the
usage of “privileged” languages like Latin, the advent of the
printing press, and the growing
desire to abolish rule by divine right— delegitimizing
monarchies—citizens felt a more direct
connection with their “nation” and fellow citizens. For
Anderson, a “nation” is an imagined
social construct “because the members of even the smallest
nation will never know most of their
fellow members, meet them, or even hear them, yet in the minds
of each lives the image of their
communion” (6). In other words, because a nation is a structure
that is vast and finds its power
and ability to connect people in ideals, border, or languages, all
intangible, imagined elements,

its existence is imaginary. Furthermore, Anderson argues that
nationalism, or an individual’s
and/or community’s sense of attachment or belonging to the
nation, is a positive force; indeed,
by articulating that nationalism “thinks in terms of historical
destinies,” Anderson attaches great
importance to the utopian elements of nationalism (149). As a
result, Anderson argues that the
nation and nationalism are not linked to racism which facilitates
the development of inclusive
nation-states. Such inclusivity, then, demonstrates that the
nation itself should be a force for
good by creating the possibility for multiple modes of personal
and communal attachment and
Voss-Hoynes 2
belonging. Individuals, then, are able to “feel” connected to
other nations in such a manner that
traditional borders and boundaries are, in some respects,
rendered obsolete.
While Anderson’s utopian vision of the nation and nationalism
is one that promotes
unity, the idea fails to take into account national development

as a result of resistance. In other
words, Anderson’s account of the rise of the nation and
nationalism disavows those nations that
grew out of anti-colonial struggles. In the case of a colonized
nation, there are already two
separate understandings of the nation and nationalism that exist
simultaneously. More
specifically, there is the material or formal nation and there is
the spiritual nation, which consists
of a national culture and which is the main site of colonial
resistance before the political battles
with the colonizing force begins. This space, which Partha
Chatterjee discusses in his The Nation
and its Fragments, facilitates the development of language,
modern cultural forms, and
institutions outside of the domain of the colonial State.
Anderson’s Utopian conception of
nationalism and the nation, then, fails to account for how
resistance, which is oftentimes violent,
helps form nations and how this re-defines nationalism. This
nationalism, an ideological product
of violence, both understands the importance of resistance and
creates a space for this form of
resistance.

Originally written in 1983, Anderson’s Imagined Communities
did not have the capability
to trace the role of technology and social media in the
development of the nation and
nationalism. In the wake of the Arab Spring and the Occupy
movement, I will trace the role of
technology and platforms like Facebook and Twitter in unifying
individuals and developing new
models of a nation. For these movements, the nation become a
space that is fleeting which, in
turn, redefines the role of “physical” borders in the 21st
century. As a result, new, borderless
conceptions of the nation and nationalism speak to the idea of a
globalized world.
Voss-Hoynes 3
Works Cited
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the
Origins and Spread of
Nationalism, Verso, 2006.
Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and
Postcolonial Histories,

Princeton UP, 1993.
Kurt Voss-HoynesWhat’s the State of a Nation?
ENGLISH 106
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 3
—OR—
ASSIGNMENT 3.1
STASIS AND TURN
DUE DATE: Friday, November 18, 2016 by 5 pm.
Email Submission Guidelines:
Please have the subject of your email read “Last Name ENG
106 H1” and
NOTHING else; if you fail to use the proper subject line there
is a good chance
that I will miss your email. Please email me your paper as a
.doc, .rtf, or .pages file—
NO PDFs.
LENGTH: 2 pages double-spaced (must not exceed 3 pages).
NEED HELP?: Send me an email at [email protected] or
schedule a time to meet with me
in my office (Ashe #417-A).
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES: In this paper, you will first find

a peer-reviewed article that
discusses some aspect of biopolitics or neoliberalism. You
should then summarize the argument
of the published work of academic criticism (article or book
chapter) that you find in class (we will
go over this). After summarizing the argument, you must assess
the piece—what were its strengths
and weaknesses (in terms of its argument, NOT its style)
Finally, as this is the basis for your final
essay, indicate what your intervention or argument will be. This
does not have to come in the form
of a finished thesis; instead, it should be a working thesis that
may (will probably) evolve as we work
through the essays.
Put numerically: 1 page of charitable summary
1 page of analysis/assessment—this INCLUDES your own
argument.
CITATION METHOD: Following whatever guidelines are most
prominent in your field, provide
a “Works Cited”/ “References” page, and cite page numbers in
the paper according to convention.
mailto:[email protected]
GRADING RUBRIC
A
18–20
POINTS

This type of paper:
- Accurately and succinctly summarizes the critic’s argument by
breaking it down
into its most essential parts rather than getting bogged down by
every facet of
the argument
- Performs a cogent and original assessment of the argument by
highlighting its
strengths and shortcomings based on evidence from the primary
text and/or
logical supporting ideas
- Is well-organized, understandable, and coherent
- Uses language with outstanding precision
- Has few surface errors and follows the formatting guidelines
described above
B
16–17
POINTS
This type of paper:
- Accurately summarizes the critic’s argument by breaking it
down into its most
essential parts rather than getting bogged down by every facet
of the argument

- Performs an original assessment of the argument but this
assessment may be
somewhat vague or unsupported by evidence from the primary
text and/or
- Is, for the most part, well-organized, understandable, and
coherent but may have
some weak spots (occasional gaps in logic, awkward transitions,
and other
structural inconsistencies)
- Uses language thoughtfully
- Has some surface errors and follows the formatting guidelines
described above
C
14–15
POINTS
This type of paper:
- Somewhat accurately summarizes the critic’s argument but
occasionally gets
bogged down by the more tangential facets of the argument
- Performs an original assessment of the argument but this
assessment remains
very underdeveloped and unsupported by evidence from the
primary text and/or

- Has several organizational flaws (several logical
inconsistencies and a
pronounced lack of structure)
- Uses language problematically or at times carelessly
- Has several surface errors and fails to follow formatting
guidelines
D
12–13
POINTS
This type of paper:
- Fails to meet the expectations for a “C” paper
F
BELOW 12
POINTS
- Paper was never submitted or was plagiarized
PAPER 3 EVALUATION SHEET
NAME:

SUMMARY OF CRITICAL ARGUMENT:
/17 POINTS
Comments:
ATTENTIVENESS TO FORMAL DETAILS (STASIS AND
TURN):
/7 POINTS
Comments:
ASSERTION OF OWN ARGUMENT
/10 POINTS
Comments:

USE OF LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND SPELLING
/6 POINTS
Comments:
TOTAL (30 POINTS):

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