This seminar has been an incredibly rewarding experience, both in terms of my research and teaching. I want to echo something that Dominique brought up about this being a “regenerative” space: the intellectual […]
In this second “installment” of Technology, Self, and Society, I’m hoping to advance my own understanding and knowledge of artificial intelligence, robots, and post/trans-humanism. These readings and discussions […]
While I didn’t get to roll out my new seminar ideas this year, I’ll be teaching an LIB 200 section in the fall drawing on some of the readings/themes that we touched upon this semester. My LIB 200 fall course will […]
I think I’m going to stick with the idea I presented in my most recent post: I’m going to develop my fall hybrid LIB 200 section as an opportunity to explore the anxieties surrounding robotics and cyborgs. I’ve […]
I have been on a bit of a dystopia kick in my teaching as of late: The Walking Dead (both the graphic narratives and the AMC series) has been the focus for my Research Paper class, and I’ll be teaching […]
I found myself most drawn to Grau’s claim that “in the search of the substance of man, we hope to realize the essence of life in projections of utopian technologies” (235). It seems to me that this optimistic […]
I found Portwood-Stacer’s considerations of media refusal in the articles – including class, labor, gender, taste, and privilege, among others – quite insightful. Revisiting her article on Facebook refusal was […]