Making Sense of English 471, One Blog Post at a Time
When I was in the fourth grade, my mother let me watch Vanilla Sky (2001). I had a pretty sweet at-home theater set-up: 12″ x 12″ TV with a built-in DVD player, small enough that I could set it on my nightstand, close the blinds, and watch from my twin bed as the world faded away, […]
Read More Embodiment of a Vanilla SkyWelcome to my blog! (Sorry in advance; Internet = hard) In her essay, A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), Donna Haraway boldly asserts that “writing is preeminently the technology of cyborgs” (57). This statement can be jarring at a first read, especially if one jumps in with preconceived notions of what it means to be a “cyborg”– perhaps as […]
Read More The Cyborg (Wo)manifesto
A Work of Fiction Navigating a Nonfiction World 