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      Posthumanism, Trauma Studies, Science Fiction, Biopolitics
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      Stylistics, Corpus Linguistics, James Tiptree, Jr.
As a process distinct from its poured cousin, sprayed concrete involves using compressed air to propel cement with various chemical admixtures at a surface. Used in tunnelling for rock surface stabilization, and above ground for securing... more
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      Robotics, Media Archaeology, Indexicality, Realism
The class explored the idea of the ‘post-human’ in contemporary thought. Beginning with a discussion of one of its foundational and most influential texts, Donna Haraway’s ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs’, the class first examined Haraway's... more
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      Posthumanism, Science Fiction, William Gibson, James Tiptree, Jr.
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      Feminism, Michel Foucault, James Tiptree, Jr.
In part because I'm now teaching at the alma mater of James Tiptree, Jr., I've decided to try something very different for me next semester. (...Also in part due to Chaucerian's Guilt?) Course Description: Some historians of... more
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      Women's Studies, Women's writing, Utopian Studies, Women's Literature
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      Ursula K. Le Guin, Feminist science fiction, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr.
This thesis overviews conventional conceptual models of TIME, as described by cognitive linguistics, as well as the novel extensions of conventional models of TIME found in science fiction. The first chapter presents an overview of... more
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      Cognitive Modeling, Conceptual Metaphor, Science Fiction, Semantic Memory
Fixer Asach Quinn is bored and jaded on Makkasar. Librarian Colchis Barthes is winding down his career on Sparta. Governor Jackson is corrupt and scheming on Maxroy's Purchase. Seer Laurel Courter is young and determined. Splintered by... more
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      Intersexuality, Middle East Studies, Environmental Geology, Speculative Literature