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I have really enjoyed this class up to this point. I really like how I come out of each class completely dumbstruck and confused (but in the best way possible) and I really like how it challenges me to completely rethink things that I had previously thought were givens. I'm thinking in particular about Haraway at this point and her leaky distinctions. Personally, I really enjoy the fact that we use serendip as a means of exchange because I like to look at what other people's opinions are about our discussions. One and a half hours twice a week is really not enough to fully discuss and digest the questions that we are trying to answer as a class. I don't really think we are learning anything truly collectively because each person responds to the course material in a different way which I think is perfectly fine and normal.

In terms of books and films that I would suggest, I picked up a book over the break called "You are not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier which I have yet to read but looks like it would be extremely relevant to the course. I've also made very surprsing links between this class and my theatre class in terms of looking at the self and the reinvention of the self so that may also be an interesting angle to look at. Also, given the panelists that we had before the break, I think it would also be really interesting to watch a film that had a cyborg or part human/part animal in it. Something like X-Men perhaps?