Writing Assignment for Monday 6/18

Hello Everyone,

Here is the writing assignment for Monday. Please print the following PDF and bring it to class. You are to complete this assignment in-class, so be sure to bring paper and a writing implement. Once finished, you may take your answers to the English Department office in AC-2A16. Here you will give your writing assignment to one of the department secretaries, who will stamp your document thereby giving you both credit for your writing and your attendance in class.

See you Tuesday!
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Hill
1. Identify the four archetypal characteristics of cultural resistance according to Duncombe.
 2. Of the four archetypal characteristics named above, choose one and explain how this characteristic is illustrated and/or embodied by the acts of the Diggers. Use specific references from Hill’s text in your answer.
3. Examine the quotations from Winstanley presented on pages twenty-four, twenty-five, and twenty-nine. Using direct evidence, explain Winstanley’s central arguments. What has caused humanity’s present lack of freedom? How can humans be restored to a more natural, “common” harmony?

Bey
4. Define what a “pirate utopia” is according to Bey. Define the TAZ. Explain how such a “pirate” space can be considered a TAZ.
5. Explain the fleeting, almost mystical nature of a TAZ. What aspects of the TAZ constitute it’s “greatest strength” in resisting culture?
6. Examine the selection included in the margins of Bey’s work. How is this an example of a TAZ? Then, consider the event described in Duncombe’s Introduction to the Cultural Resistance Reader. Explain how this event can be an example of a living TAZ.
7. Provide a description of your personal reaction to these two readings of Hill & Bey.