tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82513346884904659062024-02-21T09:54:11.856-05:00Science Fiction Feminisms (Spr 13)Katie Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15901518232103073849noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251334688490465906.post-40713234348509662952013-05-09T09:57:00.000-04:002013-05-09T10:09:14.149-04:00...what we do and think, learning together....===<br />
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<b><i>Why study SF Feminisms? </i></b><br />
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=What values do you bring to feminisms?<br />
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<b><i>...the silly, the wise, the imaginative, and acts of creativity come together....</i></b><br />
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<i><b>What does a learning analysis do?</b></i><br />
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=It offers a flexible framework for reflecting on the class.<br />
=It pushes you to put things together that otherwise you might not have seen connections among.<br />
=It creates a sense of class closure, while opening up ways of thinking into your future.<br />
=It is an opportunity to be proud of how you have put the learning of the course together for yourself.<br />
=It helps you make sense of it all, in terms of your own values and concerns.<br />
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Here is a new sort of book, and it is about shifting around what we mean by reading and how we want to do it nowadays. It is on an open source publishing platform called Scalar. See what you think! [Click <a href="http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/flowsofreading/index" target="_blank">here</a> to get to the website.] </div>
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=How <i>So Long Been Dreaming</i> fits into your sense of the argument of the class....<br />
=Which story in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Been_Dreaming" target="_blank">So Long Been Dreaming</a></i> does that in detail.... Say how!<br />
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<b>WHAT SHOULD WHILEAWAY FLYER LOOK LIKE?</b><br />
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<b>===GETTING CLOSE TO THE END NOW! </b><br />
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<i><b><br /></b></i><i><b>SATURDAY, 4 MAY -- </b></i><i><b>WHILEAWAY! AT THE WMST MULTIMEDIA STUDIO! </b></i></div>
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<i><b>want to set things up before hand, or talk to Melissa about it? email katking for contact email. </b></i></div>
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Katie Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15901518232103073849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251334688490465906.post-49326393071303277852013-04-23T10:31:00.002-04:002013-04-23T10:43:45.417-04:00what does Tiptree Revealed mean for SF Feminisms?<b><i>What happens when Tiptree is revealed? What does this mean for Alice, and what does it mean for SF Feminisms? </i></b><br />
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"Analytically, it is extremely useful to think of human beings as locations in space-time. We are relatively localized for many bodily functions and for some kinds of tasks we are highly distributed--remembering for example. So much of our memory is in other people, libraries, and our homes. But we are used to rather carelessly localizing what we mean by a person as bounded by one's skin.... The skin may be a boundary, but it can also be seen as a borderland, a living entity, and as part of the system of person-environment.... Parts of our selves extend beyond the skin in every imaginable way, convenient as it is to bound ourselves that way in conversational shorthand. Our memories are in families and libraries as well as inside our skins; our perceptions are extended and fragmented by technologies of every sort."</div>
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<a href="http://queertransdis.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SEE KING ON QUEER TRANSDISCIPLINARITIES. </a></div>
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In this MacArthur funded set of studies on learning with digital media, these are called "genres of participation":<br />
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= "messing around" as an interest driven set of activities, creates and supports "specialized activities, interests, or niche and marginalized identities" ... "geeks, freaks, musicians, artists, and dorks" .... "who might not be represented in their local communities" .... (Ito 16)<br />
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"more friendship-driven modes of 'hanging out' with friends while gaming can transition to more interest-driven genres of what we call recreational gaming. Similarly... the more friendship-driven practices of creating profiles on social network sites or taking photos with friends can lead to 'messing around' in the more interest-driven modes of digital media production." (Ito 17)<br />
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"a genre of participation of 'messing around' with new media ...can in some cases mediate between genres of 'geeking out' and 'hanging out.'" (Ito 17)<br />
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"When we consider learning as an act of social participation, our analytic focus shifts from the individual to the broader social and cultural ecology that a person inhabits." (Ito 18)<br />
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<b><a href="http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/98.html" target="_blank">SEE "BECOMING A FAN" from the Digital Youth Project</a>.</b><br />
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<br />Katie Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15901518232103073849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251334688490465906.post-85138187281309076082013-04-15T11:05:00.003-04:002013-04-16T10:03:32.445-04:00Now it changes! HOW TO GET IT ALL IN! We are on the final surge for the class! Two big events to come, and you need to prepare for both simultaneously!<br />
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=One is Whileaway, on Sat 4 May from 1-3 pm! The class week before, T 30 April and Th 2 May will be drop in workshop studio time with Irene to finish up how you will do your installation of your project for Whileaway. But you should have it done by then, and use that time to figure out how to present it at the con!<br />
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<b>===WHAT WE JUST DID! REVIEW FOR KATIE WHEN SHE IS BACK ON TUESDAY! </b><br />
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• read a Bateson metalogue (link online) & When it Changed (link online) & if not already, Merrick 3</div>
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<b>===WHAT COMES NEXT! FINISHING UP THE BOOKS, PREPARING FOR WHILEAWAY!</b></div>
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<i><b>Tuesday, 16 April – First Contacts </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Thursday, 18 April – Crossing over always </b></i></div>
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• finish up Butler: Amnesty & Crossover</div>
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<i><b>Tuesday, 23 April – the plan is… ? </b></i></div>
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• finish up Phillips: 30-40</div>
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<i><b>Thursday, 25 April – re-imagining the colonial </b></i></div>
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• finish up Hopkinson: II, V, Final Thoughts</div>
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<i><b>SATURDAY, 4 MAY -- </b></i><i><b>WHILEAWAY! AT THE WMST MULTIMEDIA STUDIO! </b></i><br />
<i><b>want to set things up before hand, or talk to Melissa about it? email katking for contact email. </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Tuesday, 7 May – secret feminist cabal </b></i></div>
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"Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred personal world. The fragile ecosystem of human nature and its relationship to the wider natural world is a related and recurrent theme": <a href="http://www.leunig.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.leunig.com.au/</a> <br />
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"Elizabeth Stephens is a performance artist, activist and educator whose art-work, performance art and writing have explored themes of queerness, feminism and environmentalism for over 25 years. Her current passion is SexEcology: the art of exploring the Earth as a lover. Stephens is creating this new field of research in collaboration with her partner Annie Sprinkle. Together they form the Love Art Laboratory where they are attempting to make the environmental movement a little more sexy, fun and diverse. Stephens is a professor of art at University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis": <a href="http://art.ucsc.edu/faculty/elizabeth-stephens" target="_blank">http://art.ucsc.edu/faculty/elizabeth-stephens</a> The Love Art Laboratory site is here: <a href="http://anniesprinkle.org/projects/current-projects/love-art-laboratory/" target="_blank">http://anniesprinkle.org/projects/current-projects/love-art-laboratory/</a> <br />
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<b>Tuesday, 9 April – Who sees which kinds of stories and why?</b><br />
• read Merrick 1, 2 (& 3 if you can)<br />
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• read a Bateson metalogue (<a href="http://antroposimetrica.blogspot.com/2012/08/metalogue-why-swan-bateson.html" target="_blank">link online here: Why a Swan?</a>) & When it Changed (<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:DjJj6M-OBesJ:boblyman.net/englt392/texts/When%2520It%2520Changed.pdf+when+it+changed+pdf&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgoUa8RLXJrAqDjpUY93_P1IcCQEAz0LdLbpCnBkE0a4BaXLJ-ixP9q29tYZxRy4cY0kXKpMJUBTwZBC_2VlsJs-7JlPIGB7v-UttuNDG29ZMoLdr3gmHlk_vgwSCFC_TBeGUJ-&sig=AHIEtbSSc3m8joE_patRFnvZGjIrMBOGgw" target="_blank">link online here in pdf</a>) & if not already, Merrick 3</div>
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Katie will be out of town at a Bateson event and you all will run the class yourselves with the help of Irene our TA!</div>
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<b>Tuesday, 30 April – NO CLASS: WHILEAWAY PLANNING</b></div>
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<b>SATURDAY, 4 MAY -- WHIILEAWAY MEETS AT MULTIMEDIA STUDIO FROM 1-3PM! INVITE FRIENDS, AND THINK HOW TO ADD TO THE FESTIVITIES! TALK WITH MELISSA TOO! </b></div>
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<b><i>some resources to use to consider this question along with Merrick: CHECK OUT LINKS!</i></b></div>
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<b>•EPIGENETICS: <a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/epigenetics3.htm/printable" target="_blank">the epigenetic spin on nature vs. nurture from Science</a>: </b></div>
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Merrick: 10: "My reading of Joanna Russ's <i>The Female Man</i> in the 1990s, for example, provided a very different sense of the feminism of that time than did my readings of feminist history and theory, and brought the movement alive to me in a way no other text had done." </div>
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Merrick: 61-2: "Certainly // the letters in <i>Vertex</i> suggest that [Philip K.] Dick's and [Jeffrey] Anderson's perceptions of Russ's 'anger,' 'militancy,' and charges of 'sexism' are derived from more than just this one article; perhaps influenced by personal interactions with Russ, her reviews of their work, or awareness of her fictional texts, such as 'When it Changed' or <i>The Female Man</i>."</div>
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<i>Click this pic to find a talk Katie gave on Star Trek Media Art in 2000. See what you think thirteen years later....</i></div>
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<b>Thursday, 4 April – (fe)MALE </b><br />
• finish up The Female Man<br />
<b>Tuesday, 9 April – Who sees which kinds of stories and why?</b><br />
• read Merrick 1, 2 (& 3 if you can)<br />
<b>Thursday, 11 April – KATIE AT UVA – When it Changed – Irene will facilitate</b><br />
• read a Bateson metalogue (<a href="http://antroposimetrica.blogspot.com/2012/08/metalogue-why-swan-bateson.html" target="_blank">link online here: Why a Swan?</a>) & When it Changed (<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:DjJj6M-OBesJ:boblyman.net/englt392/texts/When%2520It%2520Changed.pdf+when+it+changed+pdf&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgoUa8RLXJrAqDjpUY93_P1IcCQEAz0LdLbpCnBkE0a4BaXLJ-ixP9q29tYZxRy4cY0kXKpMJUBTwZBC_2VlsJs-7JlPIGB7v-UttuNDG29ZMoLdr3gmHlk_vgwSCFC_TBeGUJ-&sig=AHIEtbSSc3m8joE_patRFnvZGjIrMBOGgw" target="_blank">link online here in pdf</a>) & if not already, Merrick 3<br />
Katie will be out of town at a Bateson event and you all will run the class yourselves with the help of Irene our TA!<br />
• work on Whileaway!<br />
<b>Tuesday, 30 April – NO CLASS: WHILEAWAY PLANNING</b><br />
<b>Thursday, 2 May – NO CLASS: WHILEAWAY PLANNING</b><br />
<b>SATURDAY, 4 MAY -- WHIILEAWAY MEETS AT MULTIMEDIA STUDIO FROM 1-3PM! INVITE FRIENDS, AND THINK HOW TO ADD TO THE FESTIVITIES! TALK WITH MELISSA TOO! </b><br />
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<b>QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS! </b><br />
The Female Man: sex/gender? nature/nurture? how are these implicated?<br />
Why and how has the Female Man been used for the last two decades in feminist theory?<br />
How might we still use it, or how would we need to alter our appeal to it?<br />
The Merrick book will help us think about these questions?<br />
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<b>•EPIGENETICS: <a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/epigenetics3.htm/printable" target="_blank">the epigenetic spin on nature vs. nurture from Science</a>: </b><br />
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=How does it shift feminist science interests in making nature and nurture mutually exclusive, opposites, or some kind of scale or proportion? What would Merrick say about it all do you think?<br />
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<i><b>The theme is "Media Ecologies." Our class' expertise is in "<a href="http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/03/17/design-fiction-a-short-essay-on-design-science-fact-and-fiction/" target="_blank">Design Fiction</a>." </b></i></div>
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=When you think of design fiction, think of all the ways we have been approaching and thinking and talking about our readings, and the interactions among the extraterrestrial relativities of multiple ways of exploring "sf." Look at the <b>website</b> carefully, as well as <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9ubUhWM3RHT0V5Q28/edit" target="_blank">Helmreich's essay</a>. Both are your best resource for understanding the multiple realities of designing fictions. Fictions = makings.</div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">If it is not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia" target="_blank">dystopia</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia" target="_blank">utopia</a>, what is it instead??? </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i>The generic masculine and sexist language: a study on imaging men: Gastil 1990: <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xQjA5inidi8J:www.stanford.edu/class/linguist156/Gastil_1990.pdf+generic+masculine&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjEVRuHR4_VD7jgKR2k2h62jvcml2lbzGao2n-eISCxI1_SuETQJbrohkRBEv7lvyIdGSoSzqn_wP51RkUFSQyNhqjqlJvUWVGxzZeu3izWP4PJFGLF1MqTtGrIITuuPzBCSXYW&sig=AHIEtbQtgOhdq1yt_-PNwrC_yaHUluImnA" target="_blank">here</a>. </i></b></span></div>
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From Gastil 1990: 640: "An interesting question that this study raises is which alternative pronouns function most effectively as generics. If he must go, which pronouns might replace it? Recall that for the college student population studied herein, they appears the most generic of the three pronouns listed above. Using they as a generic, however, does not solve the problem of males producing very few female images under any pronoun condition. Future research might compare the effects of he/she and they with more promising alternatives. Reversing he/she, writing it as she/he, might cause males to imagine more women. (A preliminary investigation, using a method similar to this study's sug- gests that she/he does evoke significantly more images of women than he, he/she, and they for both female and male European-American, Midwestern undergraduates.) One might use she to refer to some individuals and he in refer- ence to others. Or one might simply use she as a generic, counterbalancing the persistence of male bias. Even Strunk and White (1979), read literally, endorse this final suggestion: "If you think she is a handy substitute for he, try it and see what happens" (p. 61)."<br />
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<i><b>William Shatner takes a look at Trekkies in ‘Get a Life!’ </b></i><br />
<i>The iconic actor behind James T. Kirk boldly explores the obsession many fans have with his landmark sci-fi TV series</i><br />
<b>NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012, 6:00 AM</b><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/william-shatner-takes-trekkies-life-article-1.1122367#ixzz2MrqcNFXt" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/william-shatner-takes-trekkies-life-article-1.1122367#ixzz2MrqcNFXt</a> <br />
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Whether we meet or not Tuesday or Thursday will depend on the state of the campus. Info will be located here: <a href="http://www.umd.edu/emergencypreparedness/weather_emer/" target="_blank">http://www.umd.edu/emergencypreparedness/weather_emer/</a> </div>
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<b><a href="http://www.english.umd.edu/Complexities2013" target="_blank">DEBRIEF FROM COMPLEXITY CONFERENCE!</a> </b><br />
<b>=What connections did you make between our class and what you experienced there? </b><br />
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<i><b>Thursday, 7 March – Whose bodies are these? </b></i></div>
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You should begin the biography of James Tiptree Jr by Phillips and start thinking about colonialisms, feminisms, and their twentieth century histories as offered through the life of Alice Sheldon. Colonialisms and feminisms are intwined with science fiction throughout the twentieth century and the materials we read today are both a reaction to this and a continuation of it in complicated ways. James Tiptree as a figure helps us understand this. And it is a fascinating biography just in itself! So just keep reading if you find yourself caught up in the story!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• 2011 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr._Award" target="_blank">Tiptree Award</a> went to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Hairston" target="_blank">Andrea Hairston</a> for <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Redwood-Wildfire-Andrea-Hairston/dp/1933500522/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360698196&sr=1-1&keywords=redwood+and+wildfire" target="_blank">Redwood and Wildfire</a></i>; she was one of the guests of honor last year at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiscon" target="_blank">WisCon</a> -- her story in Hopkinson I: Body: "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fQZnhJgZaw8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=so+long+been+dreaming&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sZsaUd2xE_K30AGhvoH4DQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Griots&f=false" target="_blank">Griots</a> of the Galaxy" </span></div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Tuesday, 26 February – Enfolding systems & complexity sciences</span></b></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• LOGBOOK 1 DUE</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• Complexity handouts (handed out, emailed, and <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9udmh6NlQxRDNPYkk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">PDF1</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9ucU1mRXN2WGI2NFE/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">PDF2</a>.) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• make sure you are caught up on everything we have read so far</span><br />
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<b><i>Thursday, 28 February – Complexities – GO TO CONFERENCE TODAY & TOMORROW!</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">• 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!</span><br />
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation:<br />
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Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation<br />
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<b><i>2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced</i> [click pic for link]</b><br />
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.<br />
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<i><b>The theme is "Media Ecologies." Our class' expertise is in "Design Fiction." </b></i><br />
<i>Explore what these mean as you consider what to do. </i><br />
=<b>Johnson</b> 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.<br />
=When you think of design fiction, think of all the ways we have been approaching and thinking and talking about our readings, and the interactions among the extraterrestrial relativities of multiple ways of exploring "sf." Look at the <b>website</b> carefully, as well as Helmreich's essay. Both are your best resource for understanding the multiple realities of designing fictions. Fictions = makings.<br />
=How does the NearFuture Laboratory share thinking? How would you do this same kind of analysis yourself? (Some clues are in the Media tab of the website too.)<br />
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<i>The essays for this week are longer and quite challenging: try reading them like poetry. Or like software documentation.... In a back and forth bits of reading, wondering, connecting with this week's stories, and with everything we have read and talked about up to now....</i><br />
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<i><b>Tuesday, 19 February – encountering natures as alien/not </b></i></div>
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• ESSAY: Hustak & Myers (2012) Involutionary Momentum: Affective Ecologies and the Sciences of Plant/Insect Encounters. differences 23/3: 74-118. [has been emailed; also <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9ueGpKc3p5RjVuelE/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">PDF</a>]</div>
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• THIS WEEK’S STORIES: Hopkinson: Part IV: Encounters with the Alien </div>
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• ESSAY: Kier (2010) Interdependent Ecological Transsex. Women and Performance 20: 299-319. (On website, link to <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9uWTA5ZzQyWV9pZjQ/edit" target="_blank">PDF</a>.)<br />
• [trans <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/490257461030932/?notif_t=plan_user_invited" target="_blank">CFP</a> example scholarship]</div>
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• ESSAY: Helmreich (2012) Extraterrestrial Relativism. Anthropological Quarterly, Special Collection: Extreme: Humans at Home in the Cosmos 85: 1125–1140. (On website, link to <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmKs1Fz7m9ubUhWM3RHT0V5Q28/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">PDF</a>.)</div>
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Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching<br />
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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.<br />
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"Astronaut [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison" target="_blank">Mae Jemison</a>] who rode Endeavor into space in 1992 making her the first African-American female in space. Founded the Jemison Research Group which runs an international science camp for kids." (See also: NASA on <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/features/2012/nichols-visit.html" target="_blank">Nichelle Nichols visit</a> to Goddard; Jemison on <a href="http://vimeo.com/46123615" target="_blank">100-yr Starship</a> Project; <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together.html" target="_blank">Jemison on TED</a> about teaching art & science together.)<br />
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Double takes and double consciousness are at the heart of the theories of play and fantasy that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Salen">Katie Salen</a> and <a href="http://www.ericzimmerman.com/GAMES/Drift.html">Eric Zimmerman</a> find useful for game design, and for new education projects.</div>
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They challenge what they call “the immersive fallacy” – the idea that games get better and better as they become whatever that thing “more real” is. Anthropologist <a href="http://www.anecologyofmind.com/">Gregory Bateson</a> is their touchstone for “metacommunicative media”: “play is a process of metacommunication, a double-consciousness in which the player is well aware of the artificiality of the play situation.” (Salen & Zimmerman 2004: 451)</div>
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As animals and children learn to play they come to know that there are some ways a play self can and must be separated from an everyday self, and they learn to perform this separation in interactive cognitive and social communication forms of “not”: they amuse themselves by performing the communication “this is not it.” The puppy nips, but not hard enough to injure. (Violence? Not.) The teen kisses in spin the bottle, but not necessarily the person they like the most. (Sex? Not.) Yet at the same time there are also other ways in which these selves simply are not separated, in certain physiological processes and psychological equivalences. The nip actually hurts a bit, the kissing blush and stammer. A double consciousness of being in both these states at the same time is possible, as Bateson puts it in formal terms, because play creates its own commentary in itself about itself as an intense and pleasurable interactive dynamism — communicatively social, as well as neurological and hormonal. Such metacommunications — or communications about communication — are performed by embodied selves at multiple “levels” of organic and social system, some sequentially, some simultaneously. (Bateson 1972, 1980)</div>
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Notice that metacommunication and metacommunicative media are at stake in double binds: good signaling skills make nonabusive play on the edge of double binds possible: “My body is reacting as if I am in danger, but really I’m in front of a computer screen.” (Reality? Not.) But Bateson was well aware that not every edge of play is so easily resolved: that transcontextual confusions and gifts arise from situations in which “tangles” remain – in which finding out which bits are active, which bits are context, which bits can be made explicit, which rules are perceptible, which distributed embodiments, cognitions, and infrastructures are in play, matters. And the skills for all this, transcontextual movement without falling apart – what restructuring academies, nations, and industries call “innovation” – are at the very heart of all those things that the word “<a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?q=topic:e-books&hl=en&ned=us&tab=nw#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=webhp&source=hp&q=gaming&pbx=1&oq=gaming&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2696l3695l0l3961l6l5l0l1l1l0l371l948l0.2.1.1l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=aba518df42a68c44&biw=1052&bih=532">gaming</a>” now covers – from gambling to economic game theory, from game art and design to games as learning, from role-playing to systems theory – many of these playing with our distributed being, individual and collective, neurological and hormonal, industrial and creative. This is one context for considering sf feminisms today.</div>
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Offering a new course, even a new kind of course, I have wanted to get to know you all a bit better before finalizing our syllabus. But you should have that version this coming week. As soon as it is ready, I will email you a copy, offer a link here to a pdf version, and include it in this website as well. Notice changes in office hours, social hours, and conversations with Irene on the right hand panel of this website too!<br />
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For our next class, please read the following story online, and also the essay I will be sending to you on email. Please look for the email and bring a copy of that essay with you to the next class. A print out of this may be helpful to you too! [Click the pics for links.]<br />
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<b><i>For Thursday this week, read from website links on right hand side:</i></b><br />
=Design Fiction: link to Bleecker's work and NearFuture Laboratory. Pick something to print out and bring to share.<br />
=Explore Second Life vids on YouTube (ck links too).<br />
=Find out what KZero is, and what this graph means.<br />
=Read Katie's story about getting into Second Life.<br />
=Check out the RealityAugmented Blog<br />
=Click links on Object-Oriented Ontologies, both of them. What is this anyway?<br />
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As you get to school or to class, take care, stay safe, be careful! See you soon!<br />
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