Amy's 632 Paper: Writing Amy style
Topic: Utopian impulse and the Communitas/Scapegoating drive
Intro: Cheesy intro here. Thesis: While "Communitas" is a helpful concept, it may help us to include the idea of scapegoating when talking about ideal online communities.
Bridge: Girard's scapegoating and desire in "primitive" communities: Definition and justification
Main points:
1. Utopian impulse: The history of the Well/connection to counterculture
2. Connection of Utopia to Communitas (def of communitas, defs of Utopia)
3. Communitas and Scapegoating--Burke on textual scapegoating and symbolic action.
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