Anelise Farris
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selisker deposited “Simply by Reacting?”: The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay considers Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison’s other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible Man, the essay links the political concerns of the novel with…[Read more]
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Jayashree Kamble deposited From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoReading the representation of New York City in J.D. Robb’s/Nora Roberts’s sci-fi detective romance In Death series via Andrew Karmen’s critique of the 1990s’ New York crime wave/crash narrative pushed by Giuiliani and Bratton’s “broken windows” policing.
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Aaron Ricker deposited The Third Side of the Coin: Constructing Superhero Comics Culture as Religious Myth in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe claim that superhero comics culture is a modern religious and/ or mythopoeic expression has been repeated so often by academic observers of pop culture over the years, it has assumed the dimensions of a modern myth in its own right. Critically evaluating this claim that superhero comics culture is in effect a modern religious or mythopoeic…[Read more]
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Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Finding Ferality in the Anthropocene: Marie Darrieussecq’s “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoWhat will it take to undomesticate the world—to begin to loosen humanity’s tight grasp on the planet’s spaces, structures, resources, and populations? Marie Darrieussecq’s short story “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” describes the intrusion of an unidentifiable creature into a fastidious woman’s apartment home, a modest but powerful scen…[Read more]
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Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper reads Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel Clay’s Ark as a speculative handbook for living collaboratively in a more-than-human world. Drawing on Aaron Moe’s theory of zoopoetics, as well as emerging research on the effects of the human microbiome on health, behavior, and personality, I consider how the novel’s “villain,” an infectious…[Read more]
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Well, I just learned a new word. Good way to start the day.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe LA Times just gave it quite the review. I can’t wait to start it, but I’m reading Cryptonomicon right now, and have to finish that first (almost there…)!
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoOh, and I’m looking forward to learning more about Borne at a reading Vandermeer is doing here in a couple weeks.
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI was totally entranced by the Southern Reach trilogy. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to teach it—probably just the first book, since the trilogy’s so long. If anyone has put it on a syllabus, I’d be really interested to hear how that went!
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMy copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne arrived this morning in the mail. Has anyone else read or taught it (or his Southern Reach Trilogy)?
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Brent Ryan Bellamy replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoHi All,
I’m just finishing Invisible Planets ed. Ken Liu. It’s fantastic! I esp. recommend it to people reading The Three Body Problem as Cixin Liu has a short story in the collection.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoOh, @camillahoel, I would love to read that article when you’re feeling ready to share! And yes, I agree that Octavia Butler feels not-quite-speculative enough in 2017. Le sigh.
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Camilla Hoel replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoHello!
I am actually working on an article on those two Harkaway novels! Though it is not my friend at the moment, so I have put it aside for some Victorian stuff.I just finished The Three Body Problem! It took an odd turn (felt a little like going from a political police procedural to Stanislaw Lem quite suddenly), but I liked it. I do not…[Read more]
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sebastien doubinsky replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi! I am reading Cixin Liu’s fabulous trilogy, “The three-body problem”, “The Dark Forest” and “Death’s end” – which I very highly recommend. I don’t know if Berit Elligsen’s “Empty City” would fit in, but it’s a very interesting read and can be considered as a speculative vision of future cities.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI’ll start!
I’ve just finished The Obelisk Gate, the second book in NK Jemisin‘s Broken Earth trilogy, and enjoyed it even more than last year’s Hugo-winning The Fifth Season. I find Jemisin’s world building to be remarkable, and am more than a little sad that the final installment doesn’t come out until the fall. February also saw me finally…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWelcome to the Humanities Commons speculative fiction group! I’m envisaging this as a place to share scholarship and events, of course, but also as a source of recommendations and discussion of contemporary speculative and science fiction. So… what are you reading? What would you recommend?
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E Priego deposited Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the…[Read more]
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The case that hero funnies culture is a cutting edge strict and additionally mythopoeic articulation has been rehashed so frequently by scholarly onlookers of mainstream society throughout the years, it has expected the elements of an advanced fantasy in its very own right..
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Ernesto Priego created the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
