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By the late 20th century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation. In the tradition of Western science and politics. . . the relation between organism and machine has been a border war. The stakes in the border war have been the territories of production, reproduction, and imagination. This chapter is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction.-
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto
Mike Wesh's Digital Ethnography Research Team at Kansas State
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Slide Deck for Conference Presentation
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This presentation examines Wanda Vision, a Marvel Cinematic 2020 television show, to explore the linkage between aesthetics, grief, trauma, and identity formation through the TV show’s use of an aesthetic of time. Each episode’s style represents a decade in television history and draws out important implications for the analysis of new media and identity performance, which calls for an ethics of love seen through Wanda's explosive grief and the power of her Hex. Gilles Deleuze's theory on the crystal image of time will help analyze how spatial relations are altered through temporal relations and will offer a new theoretical framework that demands an embodied and gendered notion of time/space.
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Slide Deck
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I want to discover ways to help children with disabilities understand themselves and their bodies, improve motor functions through assistive technology, and understand identity. Embrace their agency by celebrating the different perspectives and unique experiences they have. My son is only seven years old and is still making sense of what it means to have a disability. This is an ongoing process that evolves in its complexity as the experiences change. I want to help work with medical researchers to advance technology that makes physical therapy accessible through VR and other technological tools for children and families so that every child access tools to further their physical and emotional health. Virtual tools can be used to create communities for families and children with disabilities.
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Paper
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This work examines Loki, the 2021 Marvel TV series about the Norse God of mischief who is caught by The Time Variance Authority, run by mysterious ‘time-keepers,' focused on protecting the sacred timeline. The production of the show was paused on March 13, 2020. During that time, the director, cutting the show at home, had a creative impulse to further the love story of Loki with the female Variant of himself. Through analyzing the disruptions in the production alongside the text and its intertexts, I consider how disruption affects the convergence of media, through alterations in the spatio-temporal fabric of human interactions enforced by social distancing and the enduring rhythms of lockdown/confinement experience impacted the production, text, and receptions of the show.
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Second Life still from masters thesis work.
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This is an image of Medusa an identity created in the virtual ethnographic research for my masters thesis.
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This is a paper published in Contemporary Argumentation and Debate.
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This paper looks at the tattoos of a Suicide Girls and explores radical feminist subjectivity. Tattooing is a form of radical feminist identification. Jaylin, a Suicide Girl, is a part of an alternative genre of feminist actors who perform the pain of beauty in order to upset beauty's hegemonic control on women's bodies. The tattoos of Jaylin speak to the contradictory performances of gendered actors in light of Butler's theories on agency to highlight the ways in which agents subvert imposed subjectivities. Beauty is thus not only a system of control but a means by which the individual can resist power structures through positive articulations of one's agency. |
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The self or matter actually meets perception in the moment, through the body one understands temporarily. Memory is an image created that one can look back to, but it is not the experience itself.
The overlay of passing onto the future is part of the human experience, this happens when our bodies meet perception in movement. We fall to the ground, We run to the plane, we birth the child. The ground is laid beneath the feet, time marches forward with a resonating sound of the past. |
Writer for Local Vermont Paper on community politics, education, and events.
Peace & Justice Center, Burlington Vermont. Worked as part of the Livable Wage Campaign, Peace & Human Rights Campaign and in the Store.
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European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Amazing Courses with incredible faculty and students. Pictured here is Victor Vitanza demonstrating a mobius strip....
Faculty for The Iraq Debate Academy.
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Star Mission Parentingparenting workbook and website
Parenting workbook and website. Creative project combining Hellenistic Astrology and Holistic Parenting principles to people through the use of workbooks, blogs and classes.
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European Graduate Schoolgraduate school content editor
Senior Content Editor for European Graduate School Website 2010-2013.
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Dreams Ps4 Creative Video Game Work
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