Nathaniel Harrington
,@natgharr
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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, 10 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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Stephen Llano deposited Beating Rhetoric: Rhetorical Theory in the Beat Generation in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe beat generation has been examined as a social movement, literary period, and political statement from many different scholarly perspectives. Through the method of rhetorical criticism I tease out an implicit theory of rhetoric from the writings of the principal beat generation founders—namely Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Offering a r…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas deposited Five Poems in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMost of these poems are political, but all are ironic, and all intervene in our spaces for inhabiting time. Juxtapositions rule: native/alien, organic/synthetic, tragic/silly. But in every juxtaposition, no matter how many core items it contains, is a center that holds all items in orbit, and this center never really wants to hold, for all of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have your work featured in a National Poetry Month collection! in the discussion
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoApril is National Poetry Month and we’ll be celebrating it by featuring a collection of scholarship about poetry, poetics, and poets, as well as original poetry and poetry in translation on the homepage of the Commons. We accept articles, essays, poetry, presentations, visualizations, book chapters, monographs, you name it!
To participate, go to…[Read more]
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic CFP for SAMLA in Atlanta in the discussion
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Avant-Garde and Modern Visual Culture: At the Crossroads of High and Low Art
This panel examines the imbrication of the avant-garde with mass-produced art in order to discern the relationships between the proliferation of images and capitalism in the advent of modern visual culture. Imitating the shock value of advertising, the avant-gardists…[Read more]
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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 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, 11 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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Benjamin Crawford created the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
