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Those media ecologies just call to me!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Prepare for FemCritiCon now!
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Tuesday, 2 April – Marked and Unmarked: female man
• read at least 1 /2 of The Female Man
• read at least 1 /2 of The Female Man (published in 70s, but probably written in 60s, and with references to life in the 50s too)
REMEMBER THIS STUDY COVERS USAGE IN THE 1980s:
From Gastil 1990: 640: "An interesting question that this study raises is which alternative pronouns function most effectively as generics. If he must go, which pronouns might replace it? Recall that for the college student population studied herein, they appears the most generic of the three pronouns listed above. Using they as a generic, however, does not solve the problem of males producing very few female images under any pronoun condition. Future research might compare the effects of he/she and they with more promising alternatives. Reversing he/she, writing it as she/he, might cause males to imagine more women. (A preliminary investigation, using a method similar to this study's sug- gests that she/he does evoke significantly more images of women than he, he/she, and they for both female and male European-American, Midwestern undergraduates.) One might use she to refer to some individuals and he in refer- ence to others. Or one might simply use she as a generic, counterbalancing the persistence of male bias. Even Strunk and White (1979), read literally, endorse this final suggestion: "If you think she is a handy substitute for he, try it and see what happens" (p. 61)."
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Tuesday, 26 March – FemCritiCon
Thursday, 28 March – FemCritiCon
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The theme is "Media Ecologies." Our class' expertise is in "Cultural Production."
Explore what these mean as you consider what to do.
=Johnson is your best resource for our approach to media ecologies, so be sure you are caught up with having read the whole book. Merrick is also all about media ecologies with a feminist SF focus.
=When you think of cultural production, think of all the ways we have been approaching and thinking and talking about our readings, and transmedia storytelling. Look at the website carefully. It is your best resource for understanding cultural production. Notice the examples of working with stories "Terminal Avenue" and "Rachel" in the Media section of the website. How would you do this same kind of analysis yourself?
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Tuesday, 2 April – Marked and Unmarked: female man
• read at least 1 /2 of The Female Man
• read at least 1 /2 of The Female Man (published in 70s, but probably written in 60s, and with references to life in the 50s too)
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Tuesday, 12 March – chez women
• Phillips 20-31
• getting going on femcriticon!
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negentropy and empathy?
fun and making fun: levity, layered jokes, why do they matter?
244:..."Alli's angry, loving, scatological, moral, political vision of the world."
gather names and ideas to knit together with Merrick....
Alli's feminism?
1967: the birth of a writer
247: "the courage to play games, to be bad at something, to stop trying to be polished and perfect but to be amateurish and silly and have fun."
258-9: pseudonyms
(optional followup: "Your Haploid Heart" here. )
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negentropy and empathy?
fun and making fun: levity, layered jokes, why do they matter?
gather names and ideas to knit together with Merrick....
Alli's feminism?
1967: the birth of a writer
247: "the courage to play games, to be bad at something, to stop trying to be polished and perfect but to be amateurish and silly and have fun."
258-9: pseudonyms
(optional followup: "Your Haploid Heart" here. )
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Thursday, 14 March – extraterrestrial relativisms
• ESSAY: Helmreich (2012) Extraterrestrial Relativism. Anthropological Quarterly, Special Collection: Extreme: Humans at Home in the Cosmos 85: 1125–1140. (On website, emailed, link to PDF here.)
• STORIES: Hopkinson: Part IV
• getting going on femcriticon!
• Melissa Rogers will come to talk about fandoms!
If it is not a dystopia or utopia, what is it instead???
• Melissa Rogers will come to talk about fandoms!
If it is not a dystopia or utopia, what is it instead???
Tuesday, 19 March – SPRING BREAK
Thursday, 21 March – SPRING BREAK
Tuesday, 26 March – FemCritiCon
Thursday, 28 March – FemCritiCon
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The theme is "Media Ecologies." Our class' expertise is in "Cultural Production."
Explore what these mean as you consider what to do.
=Johnson is your best resource for our approach to media ecologies, so be sure you are caught up with having read the whole book. Merrick is also all about media ecologies with a feminist SF focus.
=When you think of cultural production, think of all the ways we have been approaching and thinking and talking about our readings, and transmedia storytelling. Look at the website carefully. It is your best resource for understanding cultural production. Notice the examples of working with stories "Terminal Avenue" and "Rachel" in the Media section of the website. How would you do this same kind of analysis yourself?
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Communities of Practice: Get a Life!
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How does the slogan "I don't read Science Fiction, I live it" work? What does it actually mean today? What associations does it make possible? How does it work with ideas of cultural production and media ecologies? What role can this slogan play in your work for FemCritiCon?
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William Shatner takes a look at Trekkies in ‘Get a Life!’
The iconic actor behind James T. Kirk boldly explores the obsession many fans have with his landmark sci-fi TV series
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012, 6:00 AM
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
What to think about on a snow day....
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Just for fun on a Wednesday Snow Day!
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Click for source....
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Weather?
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Whether we meet or not Tuesday or Thursday will depend on the state of the campus. Info will be located here: http://www.umd.edu/emergencypreparedness/weather_emer/
But even if we do not meet YOU NEED TO KEEP UP, DO THE READING, KNOW THE WEBSITE BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS!
If we are all snowed in, READ READ READ!
If the campus is open, we will meet in class (if there are any circumstances that alter this I will email you on our listserv).
THE WEBSITE HAS WORK ON IT FOR YOU TO DO!
And personally I hope the worst bypasses us.
See you!
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
SF Histories & their complexities!
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DEBRIEF FROM COMPLEXITY CONFERENCE!
=what connections did you create between what you experienced there and our class?
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Tuesday, 5 March – Cyborging Complexity
Thursday, 7 March – Crossing over….
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What is it like to enter into someone's else's knowledge world/s?
=the Complexity Conference
=reading Merrick's book
=how are encountering these alike? different? can you be an "anthropologist on Mars"?
Legitimate peripheral participation
Creative participation
Community of practice
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cyberpunk
Merrick 183-4: why would the "most severe critics" of cyberpunk be feminist sf folks?
ftnote 5: why did Delany say it was exciting? why might black queer feminists listen to him?
Merrick 203: Susan Squier (who was at Complexity Conference) & pregnant man
<FRIDAY, 10:00 am Vibrancy: Thinking, Feeling, Assembling, Acting: Epigenetic Landscapes in the Anthropocene: The Art of Assembling>
204: of Donna Haraway's work "sign of more complex interpenetrations of human/animal/nature"
Merrick 211: Mary Flanagan & women's cyberfiction
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DEBRIEF FROM COMPLEXITY CONFERENCE!
=what connections did you create between what you experienced there and our class?
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• Merrick 6 & 7 (goes with Conference)
• getting going on femcriticon!
Thursday, 7 March – Crossing over….
• Butler: essay, Furor; stories: Crossover&, Amnesty&, Martha&
• getting going on femcriticon!
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What is it like to enter into someone's else's knowledge world/s?
=the Complexity Conference
=reading Merrick's book
=how are encountering these alike? different? can you be an "anthropologist on Mars"?
Legitimate peripheral participation
Creative participation
Community of practice
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cyberpunk
Merrick 183-4: why would the "most severe critics" of cyberpunk be feminist sf folks?
ftnote 5: why did Delany say it was exciting? why might black queer feminists listen to him?
Merrick 203: Susan Squier (who was at Complexity Conference) & pregnant man
<FRIDAY, 10:00 am Vibrancy: Thinking, Feeling, Assembling, Acting: Epigenetic Landscapes in the Anthropocene: The Art of Assembling>
204: of Donna Haraway's work "sign of more complex interpenetrations of human/animal/nature"
Merrick 211: Mary Flanagan & women's cyberfiction
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