Opening Up Space: A Lovely Technofeminist Opportunity

Elizabeth Conn

This year has been extremely challenging for me due to a variety reasons, some of which, I assume are very obvious to anyone living through the year 2020. As I have watched my tangible world be digitized into a virtual one as Camino, Zoom, and Postmates (to name a few) have stood as second-rate replacements for the seemingly mundane parts of life that I seem to have taken for granted, like learning alongside my peers in a classroom, being able to hug my family and friends, or even having my water refilled at a restaurant. As the world adjusts to the new normal, our classes and professors have learned to adjust in their own way. Although required by such challenging circumstances, the shift to online-learning actually posed an excellent opportunity in this class to use Scalar to collaborate on our anthology. At first, I was extremely intimidated by the concept of our entire class working on one project. Especially considering the challenges of trying to work as a group over Zoom. Reflecting on the anthology now, I am proud of our work and our ability to create such a collaborative piece that incorporates everything we have learned this year in the classroom and in our own lives. A global pandemic is certainly not what any of us expected or wanted would orient us to the future of literature in the digital age, but I have found it important within these past few months to focus on the positive. This anthology was actually quite refreshing to work on because it felt so relevant, even though I was writing about a text from 1820, and I am thankful to have had this experience and formed (virtual) connections with my peers.  

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