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Friday, February 21, 2003:

Got the flyer completed for my summer class. Posted some around the department and put a copy online under "coming attractions"!
Samantha Blackmon // 2/21/2003 01:16:07 AM

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Wednesday, February 19, 2003:

Just thinking through some ideas for Fall 2003 605 course (Computers in Language and Rhetoric). Thinking about cyberspace and identity creation and Otherness and how it all works in the grand scheme of things when we consider what we do as teachers. So far I am thinking:
1. Snow Crash?
2. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture?
3. Technicolor?
4. Cybertypes?
5. Linked?

On a more finished note, I have decided to do gender and lit with a technological slant this summer. I am thinking in terms of cyborgs. I have come up with a tentative list of texts:

1. Slant by Greg Bear and/or
2. Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
3. The Handmaid's Tale (reproduction as technology) fun to look at Offred as a cyborg
4. Neuromancer
5. The Matrix
6. Blade Runner (now a bit passe?)
7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
8. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
9. Gendered Cyborgs

Of course it is only a 4 week course so we won't be able to do it all maybe 4 novels and a course pack with selections from the theoretical readings. Got to throw in some Judith Butler and Teresa Ebert for good measure, maybe even some John D'Emilio. Probably only one film though, don't know which one. Could do the movie version of one of the books, but I could also do Gattaca (reproductive technology) or The Twilight of the Golds (selective reproductive technology- always wanted to mix up the idea of abortion and homosexuality in central Indiana (-: ).

More ideas to be posted as they come to me. For now I am creating a really cool flyer for the 360 course.
Samantha Blackmon // 2/19/2003 11:14:29 PM

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