Mark Evan Nelson and Glynda A. Hull in their discoursive chapter on “Self –preservation through multimedia,” propose that Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia and addressivity inform understandings of “new and emerging speech genres,” namely digital stories. “Heteroglossia” and “addressivity” are theories that attempt to explain “how literary texts mean” (emphasis Bakhtin’s). Heteroglossia describes “the many-languaged-ness” […]
Judith Donath’s essay, “Identity and Perception in the Digital World,” addresses the issue of the reliability and accountability of online personae. The purpose of this essay, as she explains it, is “to understand how identity is established in an online community and to examine the effects of identity deception and the conditions that give rise […]
In Hari Kunzru’s Wired article “You Are Cyborg,” he argues that, “In conversation, when people describe something as natural, they’re saying that it’s just how the world is; we can’t change it.” Kunzru’s interview with Donna Haraway illuminates the need to do away with the binary view of natural and artificial as two separate entities, […]
I’ve always considered the desire for immediacy to be an essential part of the human experience, particularly when it comes to spirituality. There has always existed an urgency in the human for transcendence beyond the physical, for a direct connection with something greater, whether it be a group of people or God. Evidence of that […]
Welcome to my blog. I’m a teacher, student, and writer living in Mt. Sinai, New York with my partner, our two children and four cats. My interests include watching interesting films and thinking about screenwriting, listening to interesting music and thinking about song writing, reading interesting short fiction and actually writing short fiction, and forcing […]