Blogs about: Science And Humanities
New Endings and Old Beginnings
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michaelalijewicz wrote 7 months ago: I think it’s amusing that the final blog post I will make for this class will be on David Mitc … more →
Time Cloned in a Vacuum
B.L. wrote 7 months ago: Increasingly, as if maturing cell by multiplicate cell, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go reveals the … more →
Power, Representation, and Imagination
bellonvandy wrote 8 months ago: Regenia Gagnier’s densely researched, interdisciplinary analyses (presented via the Robert & Lil … more →
In/Articulate Thoughts
matteatough wrote 8 months ago: For the benefit of those who weren’t at Regenia Gagnier’s seminar, I’d like to start by returning br … more →
Genealogies and Critical Distance
michaelalijewicz wrote 8 months ago: John Dupre’s lunch seminar on Genomes and Genetics was an invaluable opportunity to see a crit … more →
"Postgenomic Darwinism" and the Metaphors of Evolution
carihova wrote 8 months ago: John Dupré began his lecture, “Postgenomic Darwinism,” by quipping that he had “come to bury Darwin. … more →
“Well, it’s scary, isn’t it, all this genetic engineering.”
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coreykalbaugh wrote 8 months ago: Early in the semester, I asked a rather basic question to Professor Clayton: How should I approach r … more →
Intertextuality and Ecology in The Gold Bug Variations
carihova wrote 8 months ago: The Gold Bug Variations makes reference to (at least) two works of the Western canon in its very tit … more →
Children: Experiment and Exploration in The Gold Bug Variations
heatherfreeman wrote 8 months ago: While The Gold Bug Variations may be a supremely intricate novel primarily concerned with aesthetic … more →
Awareness and Endings
michaelalijewicz wrote 8 months ago: “I can name that song in three notes,” says Ressler in the last quarter of Power’s … more →
Bigger, Stronger, Faster…Better? Genetic Engineering or Evolution
coreykalbaugh wrote 9 months ago: Many of the authors whose work we have read thus far seem to be cautious, if not offering outright w … more →
The God of Biomechanics
B.L. wrote 9 months ago: Post-Humanities Artistic expression in Blade Runner is in short supply. It resides more or less in … more →
Erewhonians, lilies of the valley, and people who really do know what they say they know...
erinspinka wrote 9 months ago: In Samuel Butler’s chapter “Rights of Vegetables” from Erewhon (1872), the narrator describes the ph … more →
Protases
v2009 wrote 9 months ago: One of the themes of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake seems to be conditionality. Many of Snowman’s … more →
The Actual(ized) Aesthetic of the Body
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matteatough wrote 9 months ago: In many ways, Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake seems to invite analyses that will explore the … more →
Mother Time
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bellonvandy wrote 9 months ago: One of the most profound social transformations imagined in Brave New World (1932) and Gattaca (1997 … more →
a bit of what our ancestor's called 'eternity'
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B.L. wrote 9 months ago: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World flies in the face of dogmatism. It does so boisterously, sparing no … more →
The Greatness of Silence...
erinspinka wrote 9 months ago: Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. ~ Aldous … more →
Medication and Social Control in Brave New World and Today
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coreykalbaugh wrote 9 months ago: The practice of self-medication is a pertinent topic and prevailing theme in Brave New World (BNW), … more →
