Monday, February 9, 2015

"Uncanny Thinking" in Machines and Aliens

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The ways in which we privilege the human over the non-human, the sentient over the (seemingly) non-sentient, the intelligent over the robot...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Best Reads of 2014

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Happy [almost] New Year everyone. As per Visual Memoir's annual tradition, here's a list of my best reads during 2014. One disclaime...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

On the Necessity of being "Useful"

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Use is something I think about everyday. How are students "using" the Writing Center at my school. Are they having effective (usef...
Friday, August 29, 2014

The Circle_Dave Eggers

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Summertime for academics often consists of catching up on all the reading that, during the school year, falls by the wayside. For me, the mo...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Parsing Genre in Susanna Kaysen's _Cambridge_: The Failings of the novel-from-life

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A colleague brought this article to my attention. Interested in a lot of the genre questions that a "novel from life" raises, Su...
Monday, June 2, 2014

The Implicit and Explicit Rhetoric Underlying Trigger Warnings

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It's been a while here at VM, but here we are trying to get back on the proverbial horse with a new post on trigger warnings. This topic...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Rebellion and Labor in Chang-Rae Lee's _On Such a Full Sea_: The New Language of Science/Fiction

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Before the semester got away from me, I became fascinated by science fiction books written by people of color. Chang-Rae Lee's On Such a...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Lynda Barry and the Neuroscience of Comics

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Right now I am working on a talk that I will be giving at Harvard University on March 6 at 7pm . The talk is on Maus  and the neuroscience o...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Science Fiction and Science Links Abound!

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I have just started to read Chang-rae Lee's newest book-- On Such a Full Sea --and, surprise surprise it is fantastic . I don't want...