A lot to digest, but certainly very interesting. I was wondering what you think about video game tropes or video game-esque narratives informing other narrative genres (novels and films with what we can identify […]
Cooper utilized some really interesting language to described the relationship between Jim and “the bear” avatar – a kind of oddly organic bond akin to changing skins, putting on a new set of limbs – these […]
I’m only about halfway into Turkel (I haven’t read chapter 12 yet) but I find myself having a hard time reconciling my experience with what she’s saying. For me, this distance is not an issue of accuracy, but of […]
I think this notion of a Quantifiable Self is appropriately weird – chopping up self-ness into lots of little numbers and statistics – and you are voicing a similar feeling I experienced when reading/watching […]
We (still) tend to draw distinct lines between our technology and our selves (bodies, brains, floating consciousnesses, etc.) even as we become more absorbed in, reliant on, and, in some of the examples provided […]
Poll question: I’ve read three things that mention Kathy Acker in the last week (Neil Gaiman, an article about cyberpunk, and this, the Viegener), and a preliminary wikipedia search reveals she’s a writer/artist/a […]
I’m reading Viegener for next week too and there’s something great about it that I can’t quite articulate – something that corresponds with my experience and certainly with social networking, which seems so […]
Jason – I’d definitely be interested in hearing/reading more about “sentimental education”, as it’s a concept I’m wholly unaware of – can you recommend any specific books or articles?
Disability Studies interests me for two related reasons: First off, there is a kind of large-scale pop culture awareness of a myriad of serious physical/mental disabilities, as displayed for wide audiences in […]
Good catch with the Ali/Rufus split, I thought that was a particularly challenging section in which our faith in Detective Lateef’s sanity is being questioned – but what did you make of Lateef’s previous […]
My experience of reading Lowboy went a bit differently – I felt like Lowboy’s behavior on the subway cars, his conversations and outbursts, and the reaction from the “normal” train-riders did contain some kind of […]
I was also wondering about how we read Dutchman and Covington/Rafa in relation to Lowboy (are they “real”, are they heard-voices?) but I think then that this question needs to be followed through to its next […]
I think Bechdel really illustrates (puns) Macadams’ idea of the personal myth in Fun Home, establishing the literal Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a recurring theme throughout both Alison’s life and as an […]
Wait, can we just assign “Blade Runner” as required viewing? Replicant-hunter “Rick Deckard” is a homophone for “Rene Descartes”, and there’s tons more we can relate from what we’ve read so far to this!!!
I liked the format of this week’s video lecture, as it wasn’t a lecture at all, but a kind of interview-conversation-debate between Noë and the neurophysiologist, and it lead right into Out of Our Heads, with Noë […]
Oh, I can see your point Mr. Wagner. My confusion comes more from what appear to be Damasio’s big leaps in his outline of evolutionary relations. How does the protoself make the jump to self? I can follow his […]
