Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

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Klyan Williams talks about the time when she stopped dreaming. Williams states that when she would dream she would have nightmares. These nightmare began after the murders of Mya Hall and Freddie Grey. She stated that these nightmares were "a reflection of the genocide against Black People"
Williams even states about how these nightmares would creep into her normal and every-day life. These nightmares made her afraid to leave her house and spirled her into a depression. Every day she was "passively internalizing images of the Black death.
Williams also remebers when she began to dream again. She states that Indigo-Jun, the daughter of a college friend of hers, is who allowed her to begin dreaming again. Indigo-June gave her back her "gift of vision and imagination" by showing Williams hers.
Williams also realizes the importance the dreams of young people have on Black Americans. She realizes that young Black people like Indigo-June must dream up "futures without prisons and police" and this dreaming will lead to a "future without chattel slavery".

Contents of this annotation:

  1. “Fly girl, outer-space up high girl Fly high, Black butterfly”