Suggest a reading strategy for Saratori's nonexistence?
"The reptillian=Hub_modem that crashed a chemical=anthropoid=paradise apparatus
of the human body pill cruel emulator that covered cardiac and compressed the acidHUMANIX..."
Ex. Is this a poem? Should we look to James Joyce's Ulysses as a model? Was this book even meant to be read by humans?
Friday, February 20, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Week 6: Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things
Group B: Please respond by Friday at Midnight (about 1 page in Length)
Group A: Please comment on these responses by 5pm (before Tuesday's section).
Take a look at the passages below and point out one stereotype that is being used. What is being done with/to this stereotype? If it's being questioned, or worked on (or with) then how?(Calder 6-7)
“Primavera was a melodramatic little doll. Wearing a cropped T-shirt that erroneously declared her Miss Nana ’71, the third eye of her umbilicus played peek-a-boo-with the camera as she shuddered with the effort of restraining her bitter tears.
“It would be slab, Mr. Ignatz. Spike. Tzepa, as you English say. [Kito says] It is good my Pikadon find you. Boy like you have no place to run. England very bad now. English roboto go crazy. Doll bite man, man fuck lady, and lady have baby turn into doll. People say have world of doll soon. World of Lilim.”
…
“...‘Shut up!’ I told those angels—good? Bad?—who were whispering Trick! Hoax! in my ear.) Maybe that’s what I’d been waiting for during those fugitive days: an excuse to return. I was a doll junkie; my limbs ached for the kisses of dead girls. For vampire kisses. For the allure.
...
"It had been a cry across a war zone of desire. Should I step again into no-man’s-land? Outside the coconut trees were swaying, fainting to an alien tide. Primavera was here, even here, her hunger that of a dog picking at the world’s remains; her stealth, the scuttling of a cockroach. Escape. Get up; go, before…But across the star-filled paddies she reaches out; like a serpent, her torso twists, strikes…”
Group A: Please comment on these responses by 5pm (before Tuesday's section).
Take a look at the passages below and point out one stereotype that is being used. What is being done with/to this stereotype? If it's being questioned, or worked on (or with) then how?(Calder 6-7)
“Primavera was a melodramatic little doll. Wearing a cropped T-shirt that erroneously declared her Miss Nana ’71, the third eye of her umbilicus played peek-a-boo-with the camera as she shuddered with the effort of restraining her bitter tears.
“It would be slab, Mr. Ignatz. Spike. Tzepa, as you English say. [Kito says] It is good my Pikadon find you. Boy like you have no place to run. England very bad now. English roboto go crazy. Doll bite man, man fuck lady, and lady have baby turn into doll. People say have world of doll soon. World of Lilim.”
…
“...‘Shut up!’ I told those angels—good? Bad?—who were whispering Trick! Hoax! in my ear.) Maybe that’s what I’d been waiting for during those fugitive days: an excuse to return. I was a doll junkie; my limbs ached for the kisses of dead girls. For vampire kisses. For the allure.
...
"It had been a cry across a war zone of desire. Should I step again into no-man’s-land? Outside the coconut trees were swaying, fainting to an alien tide. Primavera was here, even here, her hunger that of a dog picking at the world’s remains; her stealth, the scuttling of a cockroach. Escape. Get up; go, before…But across the star-filled paddies she reaches out; like a serpent, her torso twists, strikes…”
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
OTHER POSTS
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Week 5: Blood Music (even if you haven't read it yet, try a response)
Group A: Please respond by Friday at Midnight (about 1 page in Length)
Why do the intelligent bacteria in Blood music use the following syntax on p. 76 to communicate:
"Words communicate with *share body structure external* is this like *wholeness WITHIN* *totality* is EXTERNAL alike
...
YOU *interface* *stand BETWEEN* EXTERNAL and INTERNAL. Are they alike
...
Are OUTSIDE *share body structure* alike"
Even if you haven't read Blood Music yet you should be able to look at the quote an d formulate a response.
GROUP B: Please respond by Tuesday at 5pm (about 1 paragraph in length)
Why do the intelligent bacteria in Blood music use the following syntax on p. 76 to communicate:
"Words communicate with *share body structure external* is this like *wholeness WITHIN* *totality* is EXTERNAL alike
...
YOU *interface* *stand BETWEEN* EXTERNAL and INTERNAL. Are they alike
...
Are OUTSIDE *share body structure* alike"
Even if you haven't read Blood Music yet you should be able to look at the quote an d formulate a response.
GROUP B: Please respond by Tuesday at 5pm (about 1 paragraph in length)
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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