Category: Literature & Language
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Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
Excerpted from chapter 5 of Race by Martin Orkin and Alexa Alice Joubin. New Critical idiom Sereis. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 193-227. Full text available online When confronted with the unknown, many societies tend to transfer observations of unfamiliar phenomena onto their mental map of what is already known. Race as a category is entangled with empirical […]
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Everything Change, Volume II climate fiction anthology
Today, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to download in a variety of […]
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Building a Better Major: The Case of English
“About 75% of English Departments we surveyed say they have made changes or are going to make changes to the major–but we don’t really have evidence yet that it will increase the number of majors at all.” That is a statement I heard at a superb session on changing the English major hosted at MLA […]
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Super Creatives: Knowing, Doing, and Making in Composition Classrooms
“To be creative a person must exist and have a feeling of existing, not in conscious awareness, but as a basic place to operate from. Creativity is then the doing that arises out of being. It indicates that he who is, is alive.” D. W. Winnicott, Living Creatively Dr. Jan Holmevik, author of Inter/vention: Free […]
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The Software Arts: Warren Sack to speak at NYU on Thurs., Oct. 18th, 11:30am-1:30pm
Dear All, I will be at NYU on Thursday, October 18th (11:30-1:30) to give a talk about my forthcoming book: http://as.nyu.edu/ceh/events/2018-2019/TheSoftwareArts.html The book is scheduled to be published by MIT Press early next year. According to the blurb on the Press’s website it is “An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the […]
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How to Apply to an NEH Summer Institute
Got plans for next summer? Are you considering applying for an NEH Summer Institute? Do you desire a life-altering experience surrounded by intellectuals that all love the same things you do but approach them from different perspectives, methodologies, fields? Do you want to build a network, a cohort of fast friends that offer support and encouragement, […]
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Project report: Greek tragedy in augmented reality
I’m pleased to announce the release of Bitter Wind. Bitter Wind uses holograms and 3D printing to adapt the Agamemnon mythos for augmented reality, interrogating presence and replica in a new media landscape. The HoloLens version is available now on the Windows Store. A mobile version is in progress. The project was funded through a grant from […]
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We Have Always Died in the Castle: a free crowdsourced science fiction ghost novella
Virtual reality technology is no longer confined to computer-science labs and high-tech theme parks. Today, head-mounted goggles, sensors, and haptic control systems are tools for immersive journalism, professional development, and clinical therapy. In this free novella, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth Bear and artist Melissa Gay imagine a near future informed by visceral […]
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Mapping narratives and flowcharts – how it has helped me become a better analyst and writer.
This blog post is more of an opinion piece/informal methodological advice that might apply to other domains than fiction works and dissertation writing for my fellow grad students, from my own experience in mapping narratives and using flowcharts. Mapping narratives and flowcharts are methods used in multiple domains. Whether it be used in marketing, therapeutic […]
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Call for Articles: “Modernism across the Arts: Charting Pirandello’s World” (PSA Vol. XXXI)
The Pirandello Society of America is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our next issue of PSA, the Society’s journal. See the Society’s website for additional information: http://pirandellosociety.org/ Call for Articles and Contributions for PSA XXXI (2018) Co-editors: Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka In light of growing attention to the multimedia […]