I've been playing with my video camera that I'm not real sure how to work. So, I was somehow able to post my husband grading papers, and my cat sleeping. Yay for video blog week!
Ecstatic for upcoming nuptials!!!
15 years ago
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Confused
I sit here with my margarita, wondering if I'm the only one. I hope I'm not, because I will be even more embarassed. I am wondering if I am the only one in the class that has no idea what Donna Haraway is saying in her "A Cyborg Manifesto..." I don't have a great deal of experience with reading modern academic articles, mainly because, well, I have no idea what they're talking about. In Haraway's article I've picked up something about women and cyborgs, but the only thing forming in my brain is a picture of "Star Trek: First Contact." The "Borg" cube is going to keep earth from making their first contact back in the middle of the 21st century, and t
he main member of the Borg is a woman. Got it. Now all I have to do is seduce Captain Jean-Luc Picard and put some sensory receptors on Lt. Commander Data so he'll join us. I may need to actually join the Borg to understand the article. (photo from imdb.com)
Earlier today, my husband said "We write to communicate." Either Haraway is not trying to communicate with me, or I don't speak her language. "Nor does it mark time on an oedipal calendar, attempting to heal the terrible cleavages of gender in an oral symbiotic utopia or post-oedipal apocalypse." (Haraway, pg. 150). I try to translate, but all I can come up with is: It doesn't mark a date on an incestuous calendar, trying real hard to fix the great big gap of the sexes in a spoken biologically co dependant heaven or the after-incestuous end of the earth. Yeah- I'm pretty sure I'm just not "getting it."
On a different subject, I was thinking about the MOOs, MUDDs, and chatrooms, and how people have very elaborate characters that they've created. During the Super Bowl, a Coke commercial came on that was pretty cool, because it had people shown as their characters. Check it out if you have time.
Coke Super Bowl Ad
This ad has nothing to do with anything, except that I laugh every single time I see it.
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he main member of the Borg is a woman. Got it. Now all I have to do is seduce Captain Jean-Luc Picard and put some sensory receptors on Lt. Commander Data so he'll join us. I may need to actually join the Borg to understand the article. (photo from imdb.com)Earlier today, my husband said "We write to communicate." Either Haraway is not trying to communicate with me, or I don't speak her language. "Nor does it mark time on an oedipal calendar, attempting to heal the terrible cleavages of gender in an oral symbiotic utopia or post-oedipal apocalypse." (Haraway, pg. 150). I try to translate, but all I can come up with is: It doesn't mark a date on an incestuous calendar, trying real hard to fix the great big gap of the sexes in a spoken biologically co dependant heaven or the after-incestuous end of the earth. Yeah- I'm pretty sure I'm just not "getting it."
On a different subject, I was thinking about the MOOs, MUDDs, and chatrooms, and how people have very elaborate characters that they've created. During the Super Bowl, a Coke commercial came on that was pretty cool, because it had people shown as their characters. Check it out if you have time.
Coke Super Bowl Ad
This ad has nothing to do with anything, except that I laugh every single time I see it.
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