Battlestar: Galactica
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futuregenerations112We will all be watching Battlestar: Galactica at 5pm in THH 301 on Tuesday. We'll watch the miniseries together and then you're assigned to watch Downloaded (episode 2:18) on your own afterward. The whole series is available to watch on Netflix instant––I highly recommend it! (ETA: there will be pizza.)
I gave you some excerpts from Donna Haraway's influential 1984 (collected 1991) essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." The full text is available online for anyone who is interested: Cyborg Manifesto. As always, come talk to me so we can go over context if you get interested in working with anything that isn't in our assigned excerpts.
As a starting point for doing close reading of a visual text, this guide from Rutgers is useful. Think about our conversations on popular culture as well: what kind of messages is this show sending to the "masses" (if there is such a thing) who watch it? To what extent is it critical of and to what extent does it celebrate technology, capitalism, and the forms of reproduction that are associated with them? What messages is it sending about family, gender, sex?
I gave you some excerpts from Donna Haraway's influential 1984 (collected 1991) essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." The full text is available online for anyone who is interested: Cyborg Manifesto. As always, come talk to me so we can go over context if you get interested in working with anything that isn't in our assigned excerpts.
As a starting point for doing close reading of a visual text, this guide from Rutgers is useful. Think about our conversations on popular culture as well: what kind of messages is this show sending to the "masses" (if there is such a thing) who watch it? To what extent is it critical of and to what extent does it celebrate technology, capitalism, and the forms of reproduction that are associated with them? What messages is it sending about family, gender, sex?
