Scientific Articles!

Alex Bryce Blog Post #11 So I found two amusing scientific articles: Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality by C. J. Efthimiou and S. Gandhi http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608059 (Click on download pdf on the right side) Mathematics of the Human-Vampire Conflict by Dino Sejdinovic Published in the Nov. 2008 issue of Math Horizons (I’m [...]

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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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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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Concepts of the ‘New Mestiza’ and a parallel with Kabuki

This is a little incomplete, but I’d thought I’d at least put out what I have been thinking of, and look for feedback. perhaps part two will be my next entry. I am thinking about this in relation to Sailor Moon as well, so keep that in mind and help me connect some dots here, [...]

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Technolophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine

These are the notes for my Literary presentation of Mary Ann Doane’s article. Sorry about the lateness of the post, I’ve been having some computer issues. Anxieties over technology are mapped onto the feminine. Fears of technology become associated with fears of female sexuality, technology is also therefore not about production as it is reproduction. [...]

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Fierce Flesh and Halloween

I wish I had time to write about these things right after class, but somehow they just slip my mind and next thing you know it’s already been at least two classes since we’ve talked about the particular subject. I know, I know, make time! ( Thanks go out to my Dad for drilling this [...]

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More On Monsters, Goddesses, and Cyborgs…

In class, I really was unable to express my own opinions on the article in my attempt to give a factual report of the article. I’m not a scientist, so I don’t see the world through ‘those’ eyes, but sometimes I felt Lykke was making assumptions about the scientific world that may not be true [...]

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Alex Bryce November 3rd, 2008 Blog Post # 7 At the end of last Thursday’s class, Professor Burcar said that we might discuss the last two questions on my handout. However, tomorrow, I won’t be in class because I’ll be taking the general GRE exam! So we decided that I’d paste some points from my [...]

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Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs RANT

In case the word rant was not obvious above, please note I just read this article and that this is a RANT.  Just a fair warning. I am currently studying applied mathematics, especially as applied to biology.  This means I am technically a mathematician (whose standpoint is somewhat distinct from science) but that I have [...]

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Feminism’s Final Girl

The following are my notes for a lecture on Feminism’s Final Girl. Most of the notes are direct quotes from the article, “The Third Wave’s Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer” by Irene Karras, which was published by Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, interspersed with my own personal notes. I did [...]

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