This is the forty-fifth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider interesting but that I am unlikely to revise for traditional publication, and posting those essays as-is on my blog in the hope of engaging …
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SLSA 2008, On the Road Again
I’m driving down to Charlotte, North Carolina for the annual Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference. This is the second time that I’ve presented at SLSA. My presentation last year was on “Subversive Subjectivity in Battlestar Galactica,” and this year I’m presenting on the political efficacy of “transsexual technologies.” There are several concurrent panels …
What I’m Working On
Even though it’s Summer 2008 that doesn’t mean that I’m taking an extended vacation! This summer is jam-packed with writing, conferencing, and class. Course work: Teaching College Writing with Professor Brian Huot. I’m taking a class in preparation of teaching the introductory college writing course in the Fall at Kent State University. I received an …
More Thoughts on Forced Fellatio in AVP2 Requiem
There’s one point that I didn’t make that clear in my last posting on Aliens Vs. Predator Requiem and that is the underlying problematic nature of the hybrid Alien-Predator. It signifies the ambiguous sex of transsexuals. Its body contains the Predator’s vagina-like mouth, which in turn houses the Alien’s phallus-like mouth extension. Through this imagery …
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