Some topics to consider:
- Violence
- Image of the "Hacker"
- Power
- Freedom/Agency
- Religion/Spirituality
- Death
- Sex
- Madness
- Gender
- Age/Aging
- Drugs/Addiction
- Personality
- Cloning
- Individualism v. Corporate identity
Monday, March 31, 2008
Prompt 10
In this blog, I want you to talk about a theme or motif (one that, of course, circulates around the idea of the body or an actual body in the text) that you find interesting in Neuromancer.
Some topics to consider:
Some topics to consider:
Monday, March 24, 2008
Prompt 9
In this blog, I want you to talk about the bodies in the text. What, for you, in the most interesting and/or provocative body presented in Neuromancer? Why do you find this body intriguing? How does it compare with the bodies we've encountered in class thus far? Finally, and perhaps most importantly, what argument does it make about the body and its relationship to technology? Is it a positive and/or productive relationship? Is it one of fear and rejection? How does technology extend or limit the body or the corporeal experience? Does technology liberate characters from the restrictions of the flesh? Does it discover new ways to experience the body? Be specific in your evidence - what technologies? how do they affect the body?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Prompt 8
This post is extra credit - you must post AND comment in order to receive credit. There is NO required post for this week.
Things you should be working on:
1. Finish 1.2 (due Wednesday)
2. Finish Ethnography 3 (due Wednesday)
3. Work on media project (due Wednesday after Spring Break)
4. Work on your reflection paper (due Wednesday after Spring Break)
In this post, you will build on your work from Prompt 6 in order to prepare for your reflection paper that will be due alongside your media project. In this paper, you will be asked to engage in the discussion of film as composition, but for right now I just want you to think about your writing for the class in general. In class, we've had traditional papers (don't forget 1.2 is due on Wednesday!), we write blogs and comment on those blogs, we have informal presentations in class and now we have this film project (can anyone think of anything else we do that might be considered 'composition'? what about email? what about interviews?). In each of these modes, you write differently and I want you to take a moment to consider how you write in each of these media and compare them to other moments of inscription either from your life or from the class (an easy comparison might be to body modification, as we have discussed it as a form of composition). A good question you could then ask is why you write differently for each and even why you are learning to write in these different modes (these are, after all, part of your college education). Think back to that discussion in College Composition - what idea of the university and what idea of the writing classroom does your writing fulfill?
This blog and the comments that go with it will be important spaces for invention for this paper as the prompt asks you to take your own writing (in all of its forms) as evidence for your argument.
Things you should be working on:
1. Finish 1.2 (due Wednesday)
2. Finish Ethnography 3 (due Wednesday)
3. Work on media project (due Wednesday after Spring Break)
4. Work on your reflection paper (due Wednesday after Spring Break)
In this post, you will build on your work from Prompt 6 in order to prepare for your reflection paper that will be due alongside your media project. In this paper, you will be asked to engage in the discussion of film as composition, but for right now I just want you to think about your writing for the class in general. In class, we've had traditional papers (don't forget 1.2 is due on Wednesday!), we write blogs and comment on those blogs, we have informal presentations in class and now we have this film project (can anyone think of anything else we do that might be considered 'composition'? what about email? what about interviews?). In each of these modes, you write differently and I want you to take a moment to consider how you write in each of these media and compare them to other moments of inscription either from your life or from the class (an easy comparison might be to body modification, as we have discussed it as a form of composition). A good question you could then ask is why you write differently for each and even why you are learning to write in these different modes (these are, after all, part of your college education). Think back to that discussion in College Composition - what idea of the university and what idea of the writing classroom does your writing fulfill?
This blog and the comments that go with it will be important spaces for invention for this paper as the prompt asks you to take your own writing (in all of its forms) as evidence for your argument.
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