“Thankgiving the ‘Cortez’ Way” – Government-monstrosity? I think so.

http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/nevada/thanksgiving_the_cortez_way So the greenlight went to opening up a giant open cyanide pit on Shoshone land for Barrick Gold Corporation. “The Shoshone are the meanest tribe in the States”, My friend’s father stated matter-of-factly, when he told me about this over Thanksgiving dinner. The Western Shoshone are the most bombed tribe — between government bomb [...]

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Happy Zombie day!

 I’m still in a turkey coma. My typing is slow and it’s going to be a long time before I host this laptop off my lap. But wait, what’s this! Everyone around me is shaken and moving! What is it they’re doing? And oh my! Something awful is happening on the TV! There seems to [...]

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Lesson #1: Don’t crowd surf the zombies

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The Food Chain

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Robot Article

Robot\’s May Come to Aging Boomer\’s Rescue I thought this was an interesting article about the future of technology we may one day be accustomed to..I also thought it was in keeping with our cyborg discussion..Enjoy!

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Cyborg Survivors

An interesting quote I found, taken from “A Cyborg Manifesto”, is when Haraway describes a cyborg as “a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves”.  I found this incredibly relevant to our class discussion today and our activity in formulating our view of [...]

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The objectification of women in mass media and entertainment

I have grown weary of thongs, cleavage, hooker boots, fat red lips, long legs, flawless faces, and 0% body fat. It that the point? Has there been a large movement across the fields of media to hyper-sexualize women in an effort to make their sexuality trite? No. It is the product of lusty men being [...]

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kabuki

hello this is my first blog ever..so bare with me..kabuki was one of the greatest comic books i have ever read. i dont know if it was the explicit pictures being displayed from page to page or if it was just the story line. the black and white was a great touch and i was [...]

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Kabuki final girl or a professional ?

I’ve been trying to isolate Kabuki as a final girl or a professional by analyzing her identity as a cyborg. Within the context of the comic book she fits Carol J. Clover’s mold of the final girl. “The final girl is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full [...]

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To Build a Robot

So monster blog is a blog dedicated to the monsters of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. This one seemed relavent http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/stories/?story=buildarobot&page=1

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