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"A Natural Disaster" - a Skit

Submitted by tangerines on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 10:34am

When Apo first suggested the idea of a skit to our class, I wanted to work on it because I think these "web events" give us the opportunity to avoid writing a typical (and may I say, somewhat boring?) paper. Our first meeting was almost an hour long, as we discussed characters, the setting, and where we wanted the skit to go. We wrote independently, and met twice more to discuss the direction of the piece. The collaborative effort has been pretty rewarding; I've learned a lot from working with Apo and I hope she feels the same.

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Reading Frankenstein--and Experimenting with Conversation

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:05pm

Still experimenting w/ our shared desire to have fewer "stand-alone" posts and "more conversation" in this on-line space--as well as w/ our stated intention to share conversation with Kim Surkan's Gender and Technology class @ MIT this semester. So: below you'll find three postings from the MIT class discussion on Shelley's novel Frankenstein. If possible, chose one of them to respond to this week. (But! if you really need to follow another idea, please feel free to do that instead!)

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A post-gender world?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:01pm

According to Kathryn Vogel in the MIT course on Gender and Technology,

Haraway defines a cyborg as: 

"a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity. In a sense, the cyborg has no origin in the Western sense -- a 'final' irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the 'West's' escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency,"

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Reproductive Technology

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 9:57pm

Alicia Kaestli, in the MIT course on Gender and Technology,

reads Shelly’s text as a comment on reproductive technology.... This theme is similar to feminist’s opinion on reproductive technology in the 1980s and 1990s...  initially uncertain of the effects of reproductive technology.... "patriarchal control of women’s’ bodies achieved through medicine.” Nevertheless, there was enthusiasm in the feminist field about the use of reproductive technologies ....

Juliann Reardon followed the same theme:

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A NATURAL DISASTER

Submitted by Apocalipsis on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 9:54pm

A NATURAL DISASTER

By: Sadie Mahmoud & Apocalipsis Rosario

CHARACTERS

MARK, early forties    Social scientist; sociologist & psychologist

PEDRO, late thirties   Life scientist; geologist

MARY, mid twenties    Informational scientist; librarian

DAVID, early fifties      Humanist

 

SETTING

Online video chat, taking place 5 days after the tsunami and earthquake in Japan. Each character interfaces with a screen, on which he/she is able to see and interact with the other characters.

 

SCENE

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The Politics of Being a Cyborg

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 9:49pm

According to Kameron Klauber, in the MIT course on Gender and Technology,

Week Eleven (Mon, 4/4): Reading Frankenstein

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3/30 Class Notes

Submitted by MissArcher2 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 7:03pm

 

Panel 1: Introductions

Vgaffney: representing psychiatrists in 21st century. It’s a relatively new field that bridges an interesting gap between social and natural sciences. Physics in imaging of mapping brains and medications (chemistry), biology and anatomy, studies and statistics about how many women in the field 20% in 70s to this field is said to be more suited to women

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3/30 class notes

Submitted by shin1068111 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:23pm

Note for 3/30

 

Skyping with MIT’s biological engineers

-       Intrinsic value of human beings

Paper due at midnight on Friday

-       Theorizing the experiences on the panel

-       Or a creative piece

Panel discussion

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3./30/11 GIST Class Notes

Submitted by Apocalipsis on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:09pm

GIST 3.30 Panel Discussions

GROUP TWO (LIZ)
spreston: facebook users- using technology to create identity and how it changes social interactions. According to news articles, people are having facebook depression. Information, gender roles & binaries interest

 MSA322: music in Arabic revolutions- from experience growing up in Arabic world, music usage has varied in reaching out to western world when communicating. Most singers are male, but when females are included in this revolutionary method, it’s more powerful, decode music to get message out

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