Casey Henry

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “Introduction to the Virtual,” (Week One) 1 year, 5 months ago

Reading due today: William S. Burroughs’s The Electronic Revolution , section entitled “Feedback From Watergate to the Garden of Eden” (available on blackboard), “The Writing Life” by Annie Dillard (available on blackboard) Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s “Pandrogyny Manifesto”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qnvNw6NP8…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Blogging / Fluid Identity / Internet Culpability, (Week Two) 1 year, 5 months ago

Reading due today: Sondheim’s “Internet Text,” subsection “Blood” http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/sondheim__internet_text.html After reading, respond to the following Quote / Sample from Sondheim’s work: Questions to (possibly) think about: How does this relate to our previous discussion of ‘the identity of the author’ and how it…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “Character Assasinations,” (Week Three) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: J.G. Ballard, “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race” (available on blackboard) Assignment: Like Ballard, compose a short (1-2 paragraph) version of a famous historical event from an unusual perspective (or, explicitly like Ballard, from the perspective of a sporting event). Post…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “Digital Wound, Digital Leak,” (Week Three) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: “Wikileaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html?pagewanted=3

“WikiLeaks Has Altered the Leaking Game for Good.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/30/wikileaks-secrets-whistleblowers-new-rules

Assignment: Write a response in which you…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Day of Strunk and White, (Week Four) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Strunk and White (available on blackboard), John Jay Handbook: Pgs. 141-147. Assignment: Part One: Please use one lesson from the reading and apply it to a ‘faulty’ sentence either from a previous post or from a previous piece of writing from this class. Post below what the lesson is, the sentence before [...]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “The Contemporary Existence, or Non-Existence, of ‘The Law’,” With Kafka, (Week Four) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Franz Kafka, “Before the Law” (available on blackboard), John Jay Handbook Pg 23-34.

Assignment: Write what you believe “The Law” to represent. (Responses should be at least a paragraph or longer).

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “The Politicism of the Virtual,” (Week Five) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: The New Yorker article on drone strikes: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_mayer Assignment: This article is full of not only usefully employed facts, statistics, and outside sources, but deft manipulations of these ‘hard’ facts in the writer’s own words. Cite one instance from the article where…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Library Day & Library Prep, (Week Six) 1 year, 6 months ago

The following is a useful resource for basic APA formatting for citations:

http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/research/apastyle2010.pdf

Assignment: Please post one of your sources (a book, for this assignment) in APA format below.

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Corporation as Second Self, (Week Seven) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Excerpt from Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (available on blackboard) John Cheever’s The Swimmer (available on blackboard). Assignment: What overlaps do you find in both texts’ description of the transformative powers of wealth and/or financial security? Or, write about a current political/historical figure who has…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “The Devil Inside: Invasions of the Extra-Technical Appendage Into the Organic Body,” (Week Seven) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Stanford article about implantation: (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/transplant/html/history.html) Article detailing mind-control using external chip implanted in brain: (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/science/13brain.html) William S. Burroughs’ The Soft Machine , “The Mayan Caper,” (on blackboard) and “Appendix,” (on…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Bradbury, Lucidity, (Week Eight) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt,” available at:

Http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm

Assignment: Comment with a one paragraph response.

Possible questions to think about:

How does Bradbury portray the relationship of technology and nature? Do you think technology as presented in the story limits, or enhances human…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: Scripted Interview, “Talking to Oneself,” David Foster Wallace, (Week Eight) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: Excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (available on blackboard). Assignment: Please write a one-page (double-spaced) ”fantasy” interview between two famous historical personages (living or dead) about your topic (hence, these personages have something relevant to say about your topic, i.e.…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: High and Low Art, Humor, Audience, (Week Nine) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (available on blackboard) And Dave Barry’s “Vacationland USA: Why Go Someplace.” (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/15/2204537/vacationland-usa-why-go-someplace.html) Assignment: Please write an one-paragraph response on one or several of the following:…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “Virtual Infatuation,” (Week Nine) 1 year, 6 months ago

Read the following article & watch the embedded video: http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/20/this-rocking-lead-singer-is-a-3d-hologram-video/ Also, read the following article on dating and World of Warcraft: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/fashion/24avatar.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all as well as the excerpt from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream…[Read more]

Casey Henry wrote a new blog post: “Dystopia as Present,” (Week Twelve) 1 year, 6 months ago

Reading due today: J.G. Ballard’s “Billenium” (available on blackboard).

Assignment: Find an example of something anticipated in science fiction that later came true. How did the ‘uncanniness,’ or eerie similarity, of the description affect you? Did it strike you as prescient? Was it only partially correct? How so?

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