COMPLEXITY!

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FOR THIS WEEK! 

Tuesday, 26 February – double consciousness & play

• King K. (2012) A Naturalcultural Collection of Affections: Transdisciplinary Stories of Transmedia Ecologies Learning. Scholar and Feminist Online; special issue on Feminist Media Theory: Iterations of Social Difference 10. (Link HERE.)

• TURN IN LOGBOOK 1  

Thursday, 28 February – Complexities – GO TO CONFERENCE TODAY & TOMORROW!

• There is no class time today, in order to free up a bit of time for conference attendance which is required! You should be at the Complexity Conference as much as possible: whenever you are not working for wages or in another class!

• read ahead, think about femcriticon!

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2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced [click pic for link]

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announces the nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards (presented 2013), nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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worlding projects?

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Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk via Katie on Pinterest

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Katie has posted this to Complexity Tales on Pinterest:
Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation

It refers to this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

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exo.... exoplanets, exobio, exo...?

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This could be a poster for FemCritiCon!

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inhabiting ourselves as portals to the universe?


ON EXOPLANETS AND LOVE: NATALIE BATALHA ON SCIENCE THAT CONNECTS US TO ONE ANOTHER
February 12, 2013

"A mission scientist with NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, Natalie Batalha hunts for exoplanets — Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system that might harbor life. She speaks about unexpected connections between things like love and dark energy, science and gratitude, and how "exploring the heavens" brings the beauty of the cosmos and the exuberance of scientific discovery closer to us all."


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The Dance of the Fertile Universe

"13.7 billion years scaled into one year helps makes sense of the universe's massive scale in this video + chart."

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when can obsessions be positive?

LOTTERY TODAY! WILL YOU DO A POSTER OR A PAPER FOR OUR FIRST CON? IT WILL BE DECIDED BY LOTTERY TODAY! 

NOTICE THAT FEMCRITICON IS IN ABOUT A MONTH! TIME TO PLAN! work with buddies, perhaps collaborate with partners. Consider what you are going to do.... 

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, 19 February – the women that men don’t see 

• Tiptree (1973), The Women Men Don’t See. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; also in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. (Emailed already, link.)  

Thursday, 21 February – positive obsessions 

• Butler: essay, Positive; stories: Evening&, Kin&, Speech& [&=afterword] 

• Complexity handouts (handed out, emailed, and PDF1, PDF2.) 

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Happy Dopamine Day!

how to reshape what we think we know....

Tuesday, 12 February – learning to see

• go on to Philips 14-20

143: "Tiptree's stories often contain a similar rebellion: a woman rejects her secondary role and takes over, while the sympathetic male narrator turns out to be just another part of her problem."

184: "As a writer, Alli belonged to a later generation [of SF 'higher literary tone'], one that wrote more sophisticated fiction still. But if many of Tiptree's stories comment on science fiction in sly and subtle ways, it's partly because Alli knew the field like no other novice. By the time she finally started publishing, she had been a fan for forty years."

211: "Here at last is the language I would like to live in and build on." [art & psych]
213: "the world of the Average Observer ¶ 'contains in addition to "real" objects several sub-classes of dreams, fictions, verbal reports, and so on, which are perfectly "real" in their respective class. Examples would be the bottom of the ocean, germs, the forests of the Amazon, the Land of Oz, the closets in the White House, the gloves left in the car, and the sound of an unseen bird.'" ..."dangerously close to poetry." 
[object oriented ontologies? just boys? girls and more too? what more is there? trans knowledges?]

Thursday, 14 February – the deep end…

• add then Hopkinson: section I: the body -- put the bio & stories together
• [trans CFP example scholarship]
• 2011 Tiptree Award went to Andrea Hairston for Redwood and Wildfire; she was one of the guests of honor last year at WisCon  -- her story in Hopkinson I: Body: "Griots of the Galaxy"  

decolonizing mind? 

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BE SURE YOU KNOW THIS WEBSITE INSIDE AND OUT!
Check all links including all the pics that are links! 
Pay attention to the processes of attention, interaction, and even work this is. And note, when pleasurable, that as well! Think of it as a game, and where do you level up then?

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COME TO CLASS HAVING CONSIDERED WHAT YOU WANT TO DO ABOUT CONS! 
We will make some decisions.

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Second Life hooks into our distributed being....

From Katie's Pinterest Board Complexity Tales: 

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Source: nwn.blogs.com via Katie on Pinterest

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Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching

This is Fran, an 85 year old woman who plays Second Life as an avatar named Fran Seranade, and while that’s interesting in itself, many other senior citizens like her are known to be active in SL. Here is the truly extraordinary thing: For over 7 years, Fran has been afflicted with Parkinson’s Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system afflicting millions around the world, including actor Michael J. Fox and sports legend Muhammed Ali. In Fran’s case, Parkinson’s has made it difficult for her to stand from a sitting position, and maintain her balance while upright. But now Fran reports she’s gained significant recovery of physical movement -- as a direct consequence of her activity in Second Life.

More Here....

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Scifi Feminisms TA Flyer.pdf by Katie King

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