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Talk:Coogan Brennan

2008-01-26T09:47:52Z

CooganBrennan:

whoa. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 01:03, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Very aggressive first entry from Mr. Brennan. I'd appreciate the ballsiness if it weren't for the fact that this seems to have nothing at all to do with Columbia. [[User:WhatYouKnowAboutThat|WhatYouKnowAboutThat]] 13:28, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

'''Delete''': as [[User:WhatYouKnowAboutThat|WhatYouKnowAboutThat]] notes, this has no link to columbia, AFAIK. [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 18:52, 6 November 2007 (EST)

: Hey, listen, I think it's a good page! My name was already linked to "Campus Characters" and I thought I would add some content. And it DOES have something to do with Columbia because I went to Columbia. also, I mention Six Silberman, a major undergraduate force for four years. [[User:CooganBrennan|CooganBrennan]]
:: No, it's not that good a page, and Columbia has too many alumni for presence of 2 alumni on a page to merit a page. [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 15:02, 16 November 2007 (EST)

'''Keep''': this kid's name comes up everywhere. I just wish the page were more informative. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 15:10, 16 November 2007 (EST)

'''Clarification''': I think we all want the same thing, which is collected information about Columbia. I don't want to step on anyone's toes, but I would appreciate a standards of protocol I could refer to know what people perceive as informative and noninformative information. [[User:CooganBrennan|CooganBrennan]] 3:24 19 November 2007 (PST)
:Coogan, you can now add "being notable enough for WikiCU" to your list of why dropping out was a good idea. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 22:14, 2 December 2007 (EST)

:Fortune favors the bold, my friends. BOO YA! WASSSAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP [[User:CooganBrennan|CooganBrennan]] 4:46, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Coogan Brennan

2007-12-28T06:05:49Z

CooganBrennan:

'''Peter "Coogan" Brennan''' was a student in the [[Columbia College]] class of [[2008]]. He has since dropped out, and is the director of [http://themanhattanproject.wikispaces.com/ the Manhattan Project.] The Manhattan Project aims to "foment the decentralization of information". He hopes one day to have [http://www.bwog.net/articles/dropping_out_defended#comment43201 greater mental capacity] to finish his degree.

== American New Wave ==

Brennan supports American New Wave philosophy to fill the void left by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Post-modernism]. American New Wave philosophy believes the element of technology in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk Cyberpunk] could clarify modern existence. Despite this relationship, American New Wave philosophy should not be confused with [http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm cybermodernism.] It may also be referred to as [http://www.edwardsaid.org/ spiritual humanism.]

Luminaries of American New Wave include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers the Coen Brothers,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino Quentin Tarantino,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson Wes Anderson,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Page Ellen Page,] David Max Guthrez, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bonham_Carter Helena Bonham Carter,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton Tim Burton] and [[M. Six Silberman]] [http://six.factorialthree.org/].

==External links==
*[http://www.bwog.net/articles/dropping_out_defended Bwog - Coogan Brennan defends dropping out]
*[http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=2420&tpl_override=print_tpl Campus Characters: Coogan Brennan]

[[Category:Columbia College dropouts|Brennan]]
[[Category:Class of 2008|Brennan]]

Potluck House

2007-12-18T05:21:33Z

CooganBrennan: New page: Intentional community living on Columbia campus, Potluck House allows for the non-jaded idealist of campus to congregate [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/20655 Columbia Spectato...

Intentional community living on Columbia campus, Potluck House allows for the non-jaded idealist of campus to congregate

[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/20655 Columbia Spectator: "Special Interest Gets Special Housing"]

[http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/index.php/site/article/potluck-on-114th-st/ The Eye: "Potluck on 114th Street"]

M. Six Silberman

2007-12-18T05:16:01Z

CooganBrennan:

[[Image:http://ecoreps.environment.columbia.edu/images/ecorep%20portraits/sm_six.jpg]]
'''Michael "Six" Silberman''' (''nom de plume'' '''M. Six Silberman''') [[SEAS]] '[[2007|07]] wrote insane ''[[Spec]]'' columns about technology and the future of civilization.

Six can be seen as breeding the mildly-autistic population of engineers with creative humanities Columbian individuals.

He's now studying for a "violently transdisciplinary" M.S. in [http://ace.uci.edu/ arts computation engineering] at UC Irvine.

==External links==
*[http://fiveplusone.net One of his blogs]
*[http://six.factorialthree.org/ His "primary web presence"]

[[Category:SEAS alumni|Silberman]]

Coogan Brennan

2007-11-30T09:53:13Z

CooganBrennan:

{{delete}}

'''Peter "Coogan" Brennan''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[2008|08]] is the director of [http://themanhattanproject.wikispaces.com/ the Manhattan Project.] The Manhattan Project aims to foment the decentralization of information.

== American New Wave ==

Brennan supports American New Wave philosophy to fill the void left by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Post-modernism]. American New Wave philosophy believes the element of technology in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk Cyberpunk] could clarify modern existence. Despite this relationship, American New Wave philosophy should not be confused with [http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm cybermodernism.] It may also be referred to as [http://www.edwardsaid.org/ spiritual humanism.]

Luminaries of American New Wave include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers the Coen Brothers,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino Quentin Tarantino,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson Wes Anderson,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Page Ellen Page,] David Max Guthrez, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bonham_Carter Helena Bonham Carter,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton Tim Burton] and [[M. Six Silberman]] [http://six.factorialthree.org/].

[[Category:Columbia College students|Brennan]]

Coogan Brennan

2007-11-19T11:28:06Z

CooganBrennan: /* American New Wave */

{{delete}}

'''Peter "Coogan" Brennan''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[2008|08]] is the director of [http://themanhattanproject.wikispaces.com/ the Manhattan Project.] The Manhattan Project aims to foment the decentralization of information.

== American New Wave ==

Brennan supports American New Wave philosophy to fill the void left by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Post-modernism]. American New Wave philosophy believes the element of technology in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk Cyberpunk] could clarify modern existence. Despite this relationship, American New Wave philosophy should not be confused with [http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm cybermodernism.] It may also be referred to as [http://www.edwardsaid.org/ spiritual humanism.]

Luminaries of American New Wave include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers the Coen Brothers,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino Quentin Tarantino,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson Wes Anderson,] David Max Guthrez, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bonham_Carter Helena Bonham Carter,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton Tim Burton] and [[M. Six Silberman]] [http://six.factorialthree.org/].

[[Category:Columbia College students|Brennan]]

Talk:Coogan Brennan

2007-11-19T11:25:41Z

CooganBrennan:

Talk:Coogan Brennan

2007-11-16T06:40:56Z

CooganBrennan:

Talk:Coogan Brennan

2007-11-16T06:39:03Z

CooganBrennan:

Talk:Coogan Brennan

2007-11-16T06:36:12Z

CooganBrennan:

Nadia Abu El-Haj

2007-11-07T22:29:57Z

CooganBrennan:

{{wp-also}}

'''Nadia Abu El-Haj''' is an assistant professor of [[Anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]].
== Barnard College Anthropology Department profile ==

"Prof. Abu El-Haj joined the Anthropology Department in fall, [[2002]]. Previously, she held fellowships at [[Harvard University]]’s Academy for International and Area Studies, the [[University of Pennsylvania]] Mellon Program, and the Institute for Advanced Study at [[Princeton]]. She is, in addition, a former [[Fulbright Fellow]] and a recipient of awards from the SSRC-McArthur Grant in International Peace and Security, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others. Professor Abu El-Haj has lectured widely at the New York Academy of Sciences, [[New York University]], the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, the [[University of Cambridge]], the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. Prior to her arrival at Barnard College and Columbia University she served on the faculty of the Anthropology Department at the [[University of Chicago]]."

"Professor Abu El-Haj’s work examines the relationship between scientific knowledge and the making of social imaginations and political orders. Her first book examined the practice of archaeology—a historical science—and sought to specify the ways in which it generated facts and to understand how those facts circulated in wider social worlds, helping to fashion the cultural understandings, political possibilities and “common-sense” assumptions. Abu El-Haj’s more recent scholarship explores the field of genetic anthropology by analyzing, first, projects that seek to reconstruct the origins and migrations of specific populations and second, the participation of for-profit corporations that offer genetic ancestry testing. The intersection of race, diaspora, and kinship figures prominently in this study, where genetic origins emerge as a shared concern among those who may seek redress or recognition." [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:t7gXXzovwoYJ:www.barnard.columbia.edu/anthro/bios_nadia.html+nadia+abu+el-haj&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=safari source]

== ''Facts on the Ground'' controversy ==

In Fall 2001, Prof. El-Haj published ''Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society''. It was published by University of Chicago Press.

In the book, Prof. El-Haj discusses the role of scientific knowledge in the Israeli-Palestinian debate. From the UChicago Press site:

"Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations."

Critics claim El-Haj undermines the Zionist movement by questioning the basis of a Israeli state before the modern-termed Palestinian people.

"Facts on the Ground is best understood as a post-modernist effort to deconstruct the existence of the ancient Hebrew kingdoms and nullify the connection between modern Jews and the ancient Hebrew people. Put simply, for Abu El Haj, if you can deny the ancient Jewish connection to the land of Israel, you can delegitimize the current Jewish presence there. This, and not truth and research, is her goal."

This quote comes from [http://www.nadiaabuelhaj.com/ NadiaAbuElHaj.com], a website domain name taken by a group of concerned Barnard/Columbia alumni wishing to "deny tenure, and restore honor to Barnard, or to further the shame by supporting an ill-conceived and poorly researched decision, and thus lower the standards that have always been a trademark of our alma mater" [http://www.nadiaabuelhaj.com/_private/About%20Us.html source].

More recently, El-Haj's name came up [http://www.bwog.net/articles/teachers_college_jewish_association_hates_haters_and_crimes_of_hate in conversations about anti-Semitic graffiti found on Columbia's campus.]

== Tenure ==

In November 2007, Nadia Abu El-Haj gained tenure status at Columbia University.

== Bibliography ==

=== Articles ===

* [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.1998.25.2.166 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Translating Truths: Nationalism, the Practice of Archaeology, and the Remaking of Past and Present in contemporary Jerusalem.'']
* [http://www.sss.ias.edu/publications/papers/paper19.pdf '''Occasional Papers of the School of Social Sciences.''' ''A Tool to Recover Past Histories,” ''Genealogy and Identity after the Genome'']
* [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/israel_studies/v007/7.2el-haj.pdf '''Israel Studies.''' '''Producing (Arti) Facts:''' ''Archaeology and Power During the British Mandate of Palestine.'']
* [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.538?cookieSet=1&journalCode=ae '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Edward Said and the political present.'']
* [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.488 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee.'' Review by Nadia Abu El-Haj.]
* [http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120522?cookieSet=1&journalCode=anthro '''Annual Review of Anthropology.''' ''The Genetic Reinscription of Race.'']
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496(199708)24%3A3%3C697%3AAJAARL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture.'' Review by Nadia Abu El-Haj.]

=== Thesis ===

* ''"Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology, the State, and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism" (Duke University, PhD thesis, 1995).''

=== Books ===

* [http://www.paradoxalpress.com/store/book/0226001954.htmd ''Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.'']

[[Category:Professors|El-Haj, Nadia Abu]]

Nadia Abu El-Haj

2007-11-05T20:44:49Z

CooganBrennan: New page: '''Nadia Abu El-Haj''' is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Barnard College. From the Barnard College Anthropology Department's website: "Prof. Abu El-Haj joined the Anthropolog...

'''Nadia Abu El-Haj''' is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Barnard College.

From the Barnard College Anthropology Department's website:

"Prof. Abu El-Haj joined the Anthropology Department in fall, 2002. Previously, she held fellowships at Harvard University’s Academy for International and Area Studies, the University of Pennsylvania Mellon Program, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She is, in addition, a former Fulbright Fellow and a recipient of awards from the SSRC-McArthur Grant in International Peace and Security, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others. Professor Abu El-Haj has lectured widely at the New York Academy of Sciences, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics (LSE), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. Prior to her arrival at Barnard College and Columbia University she served on the faculty of the Anthropology Department at the University of Chicago."

"Professor Abu El-Haj’s work examines the relationship between scientific knowledge and the making of social imaginations and political orders. Her first book examined the practice of archaeology—a historical science—and sought to specify the ways in which it generated facts and to understand how those facts circulated in wider social worlds, helping to fashion the cultural understandings, political possibilities and “common-sense” assumptions. Abu El-Haj’s more recent scholarship explores the field of genetic anthropology by analyzing, first, projects that seek to reconstruct the origins and migrations of specific populations and second, the participation of for-profit corporations that offer genetic ancestry testing. The intersection of race, diaspora, and kinship figures prominently in this study, where genetic origins emerge as a shared concern among those who may seek redress or recognition."

[http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:t7gXXzovwoYJ:www.barnard.columbia.edu/anthro/bios_nadia.html+nadia+abu+el-haj&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=safari source]

== ''Facts on the Ground'' controversy ==

In Fall 2001, Prof. El-Haj published ''Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society''. It was published by University of Chicago Press.

In the book, Prof. El-Haj discusses the role of scientific knowledge in the Israeli-Palestinian debate. From the UChicago Press site:

"Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations."

Critics claim El-Haj undermines the Zionist movement by questioning the basis of a Israeli state before the modern-termed Palestinian people.

"Facts on the Ground is best understood as a post-modernist effort to deconstruct the existence of the ancient Hebrew kingdoms and nullify the connection between modern Jews and the ancient Hebrew people. Put simply, for Abu El Haj, if you can deny the ancient Jewish connection to the land of Israel, you can delegitimize the current Jewish presence there. This, and not truth and research, is her goal."

This quote comes from [http://www.nadiaabuelhaj.com/ NadiaAbuElHaj.com], a website domain name taken by a group of concerned Barnard/Columbia alumni wishing to "deny tenure, and restore honor to Barnard, or to further the shame by supporting an ill-conceived and poorly researched decision, and thus lower the standards that have always been a trademark of our alma mater" [http://www.nadiaabuelhaj.com/_private/About%20Us.html source].

More recently, El-Haj's name came up [http://www.bwog.net/articles/teachers_college_jewish_association_hates_haters_and_crimes_of_hate in conversations about anti-Semitic graffiti found on Columbia's campus.]

== Bibliography and Scholarship ==

'''Articles'''

-[http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.1998.25.2.166 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Translating Truths: Nationalism, the Practice of Archaeology, and the Remaking of Past and Present in contemporary Jerusalem.'']

-[http://www.sss.ias.edu/publications/papers/paper19.pdf '''Occasional Papers of the School of Social Sciences.''' ''A Tool to Recover Past Histories,” ''Genealogy and Identity after the Genome'']

-[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/israel_studies/v007/7.2el-haj.pdf '''Israel Studies.''' '''Producing (Arti) Facts:''' ''Archaeology and Power During the British Mandate of Palestine.'']

-[http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.538?cookieSet=1&journalCode=ae '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Edward Said and the political present.'']

-[http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.488 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee.'' Review by Nadia Abu El-Haj.]

-[http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120522?cookieSet=1&journalCode=anthro '''Annual Review of Anthropology.''' ''The Genetic Reinscription of Race.'']

-[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496(199708)24%3A3%3C697%3AAJAARL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 '''American Ethnologist.''' ''After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture.'' Review by Nadia Abu El-Haj.]

'''Thesis'''
-''"Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology, the State, and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism" (Duke University, PhD thesis, 1995).''

'''Books'''
-[http://www.paradoxalpress.com/store/book/0226001954.htmd ''Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.'']

Coogan Brennan

2007-10-29T02:33:10Z

CooganBrennan: New page: '''Peter "Coogan" Brennan''' is the director of [http://themanhattanproject.wikispaces.com/ the Manhattan Project.] The Manhattan Project aims to foment the decentralization of information...

'''Peter "Coogan" Brennan''' is the director of [http://themanhattanproject.wikispaces.com/ the Manhattan Project.] The Manhattan Project aims to foment the decentralization of information.

== American New Wave ==

Brennan supports American New Wave philosophy to fill the void left by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Post-modernism]. American New Wave philosophy believes the element of technology in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk Cyberpunk] could clarify modern existence. Despite this relationship, American New Wave philosophy should not be confused with [http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm cybermodernism.] It may also be referred to as [http://www.edwardsaid.org/ spiritual humanism.]

Luminaries of American New Wave include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson Wes Anderson,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bonham_Carter Helena Bonham Carter,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton Tim Burton] and [http://six.factorialthree.org/ M. Six Silberman.]