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Bodies : A Digital Companion
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Why the Body?
an introduction to the digital companion
Embodiment
key concept
Cultural Norm
key concept
Bodily Difference
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Stigma
key concept
Intersectionality
key concept
Body Image
Dr. Kristin Novotny, Professor COR 240-04/05
Spectral and Invisible Bodies
Dr. Veruska Cantelli, Assistant Professor
Visibility / Invisibility / Hypervisibility
Alice Neiley, Adjunct Professor
Radical Awakening
Faith Yacubian, Assistant Professor
Paleo
Erik Shonstrom, Assistant Professor
Borderlands
Dr. Patricia DeRocher
Walking
Dr. Katheryn Wright, Associate Professor (COR-240-03)
The Posthuman
Dr. Katheryn Wright, Associate Professor
Methodologies
This page contains links to short explanations of the different methodologies used to understand bodies and embodiment.
The Body Project
overview of the common assignment
Acknowledgements
a list of contributors to 'Bodies: A Digital Companion'
Katheryn Wright
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Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, "Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary/Introduction" in The Spectrality Reader (2013)
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Spectral and Invisible Bodies: Introduction and Contents
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This page overviews "Bodies: Spectral and Invisible" and provides content links and tags to readings/screenings.
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Nirmal Puwar, “Dissonant Bodies" in Space Invaders Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place (2004)
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An analysis of bodies in "non given spaces"
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Nirmal Puwar, “(In)Visible Universal Bodies” in Space Invaders Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place (2004)
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A discussion on invisibility and visibility in work spaces
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Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, "Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary/Introduction" in The Spectrality Reader (2013)
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"The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black" in The Stranger (2017)
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An in depth interview with Rachel Dolezal that explores the question of transracialism
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Zoe Samudzi, "Who Are You and What Do You Really Know? Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic" in The New Inquiry (2017)
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A critique of transracialism and the "Dolezal phenomenon"
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Jo Rosenthal, "a timeline of the Dana Schutz Emmett Till painting controversy"
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A clear timeline on the Dana Schultz controversy
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Flavio Rizzo, "Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan" in Warscapes (2016)
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An exploration of the Hikikomori phenomenon in Japan
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Coco Fusco, "Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till" in Hyperallergic (2017)
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A response to the controversy behind Dana Scoutz' painting
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Judith Butler, "Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street" in eipcp, 2011
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Judith Butler on activism
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Susan Bordo "Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body" in Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture and the body (1993)
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An introduction to major the implications linked to body/mind dualism
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Katheryn Wright
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The Posthuman: Introduction and Contents
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This page overviews "Bodies: The Posthuman" and provides content links and tags to readings/screenings.
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Natasha Lennard and Cary Wolfe, "Is Humanism Really Humane?"
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A New York Times interview with posthuman theorist, Cary Wolfe, published in January 2017.
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Why the Body?
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Embodiment
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René Descartes, "Meditation on First Philosophy" (1641)
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Excerpts from Descartes' famous treatise about the distinction between the mind and body.
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N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (1999)
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The "Prologue," "Chapter One: Toward Embodied Virtuality," and "Conclusion" of an important book published by the University of Chicago Press that defines and contextualizes the figure of the posthuman in science and literature.
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How to Analyze a Video Game
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A short list of key things to consider when you're analyzing a video game.
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Deus Ex: GOTY Edition
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This is a link to download Deus Ex on gog.com. Click 'SOURCE' to go to the page and purchase.
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Deus Ex - Storyline Summary (Game Plot Dialogue)
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Ahead of time, if you have never played the game and don't want any spoilers turn the video off now and go play the game before you see this video! The game ...
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The Body Project
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Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1984)
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A canonical essay that explores the figuration of the cyborg as an epistemological and political position.
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Examined Life - Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor
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Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a social ...
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Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden - Part One (2017)
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The first part of this book overviews disability and animal studies. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden - Part Two (2017)
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This part focuses on the intersection of animal rights and disability activism. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Rachel Jones, "Art Review: 'Interpose,' New City Galerie" (2017)
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An review of an art exhibition entitled "Interpose" at New City Galerie in Burlington, VT in the fall of 2017.
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Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature - Ch. 1 "Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature" (2004)
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The first chapter uses actor-network theory to understand the relationship between the human and nonhuman. Click on 'SOURCE' to access.
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Alan Moore, 'Saga of the Swamp Thing'
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A link to Alan Moore's 'Saga of the Swamp Thing' where you can read the comic online for free.
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Andre-Naquian Wheeler, "Why Afrofuturism is the Art Movement We Need in 2017" (2017)
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An essay about afrofuturism with links to the artworks of six contemporary artists published by i-D (Vice).
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Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction
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Clips of Octavia Butler. For more about her, see http://OctaviaButler.net . This is from a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002, moderated by Arthur Cover. The full ...
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Necropolitics
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A discussion of four different arguments related to necropolitics on a blog by graduate student Laura Garrison.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 1)
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A brief summary of the first part of Rosa Braidotti's The Posthuman. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 2)
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A summary of the second part of Rosi Bradotti's The Posthuman on the Medium site, Open Objects. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Summary of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Part 3)
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A summary of the third part of Rosi Bradotti's The Posthuman on the Medium site, Open Objects. Click on 'SOURCE' to view.
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Steven Pokornowski, "Vulnerable Life: Zombies, Global Biopolitics, and the Reproduction of Structural Violence" (2016)
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This is a peer-reviewed academic article published in the journal 'Humanities' that analyzes the intersection of biopower, necropolitics, and critical race studies through the popular figure of the zombie.
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Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture" (2015)
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A journal article published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies defining and outlining the historical emergence of algorithmic culture.
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