Mundane Cyborg
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
3/11
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3/11 11 We learn some new words: Venting. Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1. General Electric Boiling Water Reactors. General Electric Mark I rea...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Iron Man 2 as a cyborg fable
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Last night I worked with my son on an exam about World War 1 for quite a long time. We went over the Mandate system, reparations, the War Gu...
Monday, May 30, 2011
My friend Pax's blog
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I've been reading my friend Pax's blog "your passport to complaining." (Find it at http://paxus.wordpress.com/). Pax and I...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
William Gibson, Dr. Satan, and cyborgs
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of humans and technology, and whether novels – particularly cyborg novels, or novels that emphasiz...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Freedom and Discipline
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When I was a young lad of 20 I first read Alfred North Whitehead. I read Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality; and The Aims of ...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Rhetoric and Science Fiction
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J ust finished watching the first two episodes of Firefly again. When I first saw it, I was completely captivated by the notion that we co...
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Recently I finished William Powers’ book Hamlet’s Blackberry, and I’ve blogged a little about it here. Powers’ argument rang true for me, an...
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