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Emily Harwood wrote a new post, Homosexuality in Victorian Britain and The String of Pearls

Tue, 09 May 2017 22:44:39 +0000

Part I: Homosexuality in Victorian Britain
Most people would agree that the Victorian era was not an ideal time in history to be homosexual. Not only was homosexuality considered a sin and a taboo, but h […]

Kate Farley changed their profile picture

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:35:45 +0000

DOMIBJ27 wrote a new post, Warfare and The Windup Girl

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:03:54 +0000

After reading all of the books for this semester, I noticed that each book has mentioned warfare in some way or another. The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi, uses this theme as well, so it falls right into p […]

VELEKL12 wrote a new post, Materialism

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:09:18 +0000

There are two major views what it comes to the human minds and body relationships and ideas similar. The first we discussed in class, Dualism. The idea is commonly expressed with Descartes. He held the […]

Sean Gleason wrote a new post, "God is dead…and we have killed him."

Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:40:23 +0000

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under […]

POCILL12 wrote a new post, Grahamites

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:54:25 +0000

Hello hello! Let me tell you a little more about Grahamites, and why Bacigalupi might have decided to include them as the instance of Christianity in his lovely book.

According to Cindy Lobel, the Grahamites […]

PENSJM04 wrote a new post, Life of Waste

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:57:35 +0000

We see a lot of perspectives in The Windup Girl; in Jaidee’s chapter, we learn more about the Environmental Ministry and how the Ministry was started. It’s pointed out that “All life produces waste. The act of […]

SOMEFE30 wrote a new post, Rape culture and Windup Girl

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:51:56 +0000

We have seen evidence in today’s society that rape culture is very prominent. People who have been raped don’t report it and if they do they often withdraw the accusation because we as women don’t feel that […]

HANSWC10 wrote a new post, The Souls of Living Things.

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:29:59 +0000

I’m not a very religious person, but I do believe that there is such a thing as a soul inhabiting the body. The Windup Girl deals with the issue of reincarnation and the continuation of the soul by being reborn u […]

Leah Allen wrote a new post, heechy-keechy

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:19:23 +0000

Emiko from The Windup Girl is an interesting character. I feel terrible for her. She is left behind by her first owner; but only because it would have been too expensive to take her back to Japan. Her character […]

Miranda Sendek wrote a new post, Related Narratives in The Windup Girl and Game of Thrones

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 05:23:39 +0000

I’ve had a thread running in my mind since the very first chapter about Emiko as I was already beginning to feel I could draw a connection between her and a character that I really love who also went through s […]

Elizabeth Kohlmann wrote a new post, Look Out For Number One

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 02:25:39 +0000

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl, I was thinking about how there are not many likable characters (at least I do not like many of them). Most of the characters are only looking out for themselves […]

Alyssa Behnke wrote a new post, Animals

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:17:38 +0000

I love the idea of splicing and mixing animals together. There were a couple texts this semester where I have read about making different animals merge together to create something new. In The Windup Girl, r […]

POCILL12 wrote a new post, Spirit of the Eshu

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:35:14 +0000

Okay, this is going to be a little far-fetched.

What if the eshus of Midnight Robber are, in fact, the spirits of the Douen? Specifically, the spirits of the Douen somehow imbued into the technology?

The […]

DOMIBJ27 wrote a new post, Different Culture

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 20:31:49 +0000

The first thing I noticed when I picked up The Windup Girl is the different cultural setting this book has. Where the other books we have read this semester had a more western point of view, this book has a more […]

VELEKL12 wrote a new post, Corporate Ethics

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:06:16 +0000

As I reread the first section of The Windup Girl, I looked at all the main characters that are introduced. At a glance one of the biggest protagonists seems to be Jaidee. The reason I say this is because he is the […]

Sean Gleason wrote a new post, Alternative Energy in Ultra-Scarcity Environment

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:09:10 +0000

One of the things that I found fascinating was the author’s use of an anomalous source of stored energy that is considered somewhat archaic by contemporary consumers of electronic [Everything] – spring pow […]

PENSJM04 wrote a new post, Objectification of Women

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 21:56:05 +0000

Emiko, a biologically-enginnered sex slave stuck in the endless cycle of abuse at an illegal sex club, is a symbol of the treatment and objectification of women. In objectification, people are viewed as objects o […]

Sierra Spaulding wrote a new post, All of the problems in one little page

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:49:57 +0000

Page 39. Paulo Bacigalupi sets a stage for Emiko, one of the four main characters in The Windup Girl that we read about this week.

I don’t mean to suggest that we haven’t encountered problematic writing, cha […]

Miranda Sendek wrote a new post, Emiko

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:46:44 +0000

Chapter 3 of The Windup Girl was hard for me to read. I actually stopped reading for a while after the first half of this chapter, to let myself sit and think on what just happened and the role it was supposed t […]

FLOREJ05 wrote a new post, Capital Extrapolation

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:45:23 +0000

A capitalist market gives opportunity to small business, but it also lacks the leviathan to keep the market balanced. The companies on top are sure to take advantage at the cost of other’s loss (Morris 1984). This […]

Janae Due wrote a new post, "Yellow Fever": Asian Woman Fetishization in The Windup Girl

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:43:44 +0000

What disturbs me most about the text is the assault and degradation scene of Emiko. As a New Person of Japanese origin, Emiko is victim of Asian fetishization. Asian fetishization is the concept than Asian women […]

HANSWC10 wrote a new post, Genetic Modifications

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:38:44 +0000

Instantly after reading the first couple of pages of The Wind Up Girl I was excited. I love the thought process behind genetic modifications and engineering even though it posses great controversy in today’s […]

Elizabeth Kohlmann wrote a new post, The World So Far

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:22:11 +0000

Our final novel of the semester is The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. I have been waiting to read this book since we first got our book list at the beginning of the year, mostly because I remember going with my […]

PENSJM04 wrote a new post, Granny Nanny

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:20:29 +0000

From what we’ve seen so far, the characters in Midnight Robber do not follow any specific religion. They instead look to Granny Nanny, pretty much the Internet system that gains access into people’s minds and t […]

VELEKL12 wrote a new post, Freedom and Security

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 06:15:29 +0000

This is a notion that I have been thinking about. This seems to be a spectrum that all characters have to deal with. I call it a spectrum because those seem to be the extremes. This does seem to be a least one […]

Leah Allen wrote a new post, Parting Ways

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 04:50:55 +0000

At the end of He, She and It I feel like Marge Piercy had to have the Maharal unmake Joseph. I also feel that she had to have Yod destroy himself and Avram. In both cases the parting of the characters seems the m […]

Sean Gleason wrote a new post, Does Free Will Matter?

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:04:39 +0000

In discussions of how to define humanity, one trait that often comes up is whether an individual possesses volition – they chose their thoughts and actions – or they are just doing what they were programmed to do […]

Sierra Spaulding wrote a new post, Culture

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:08:59 +0000

I absolutely love the language in our newest novel, Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson.

When I read the back cover, the first thing that stood out to me was the phrase “Caribbean-colonized planet of […]

Andrew wrote a new post, Is it Sentient? Or just Programming?

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:26:41 +0000

With He, She, and It by Marge Piercy now finished, we are left with the thought that Yod is a sentient being, capable of all life functions. First, he is capable of higher thought, meaning that he is able to learn […]

FLOREJ05 wrote a new post, Moksha

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 03:54:46 +0000

The life of Y-S categorizes all who inhabit inside the dome, deciding who will work where and what they are allowed to do (Piercy, 1). It reminds me of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World by the organization of p […]

Miranda Sendek wrote a new post, Carnival

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 03:41:24 +0000

I’m going to start this post off by admitting to having researched Carnival traditions with great fervor as a child… due to a Nancy Drew computer game. I was so intrigued by the very small glimpse of these […]

HANSWC10 wrote a new post, Artificial Humanity

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:44:51 +0000

During the reading of Marge Piercy’s book we have come across Yod who was an instance of Artificial Intelligence that have developed sentience. there has been previous instances of advanced AI in this world as […]

Elizabeth Kohlmann wrote a new post, The Science Fiction Element in the Novel

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:18:21 +0000

We’ve only just started reading Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson, but the tone of the book is already very interesting. This book is supposed to be a science fiction book, which it is, but so far it doesn’t rea […]

SOMEFE30 wrote a new post, Granny nanny or big brother

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:08:13 +0000

When starting to read this book I think the most abnormal thing for me was the nanomites that are put into brains to connect each person with the nanomites Granny Nanny which is comparable to the internet which I […]

Leah Allen's profile was updated

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:04:10 +0000

Sean Gleason wrote a new post, Why I Want to be an Information Pirate

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:16:35 +0000

“You steal information.”

“I liberate it. Information shouldn’t be a commodity. That’s obscene”[1]

[2]

In the age of information, “The ability to access information is power.”[3] I c […]

DOMIBJ27 wrote a new post, Cyborgs

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:42:53 +0000

In my opinion, Yod is a very interesting character and is one of my favorite characters from He, She and It. When I read the back of the book and saw that there was going to be a cyborg in this book, my initial […]

PENSJM04 wrote a new post, Unnaturalness

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:44:38 +0000

A notable word used throughout He, She, and It is “natural” and “unnatural”, especially talks with humans and cyborgs. On page 150, Yod and Shira argue if Shira is actually disgusted by Yod or not. She says ” […]

Leah Allen wrote a new post, Yod the human

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 07:01:13 +0000

In my opinion Marge Piercy’s character Yod should be considered human. To be human I think that a being must be partly biological, capable of higher intelligence, and have a range of human emotions. Yod […]

Elizabeth Kohlmann wrote a new post, Yod the Cyborg

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:24:51 +0000

In Marge Piercy’s novel He, She and It, she has a character named Yod, who is a cyborg. He is an interesting character (characters are important to me). We know that Yod was created to protect, and that he kills s […]

Janae Due wrote a new post, Women and Cyborgs: Objectification for All

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:37:30 +0000

The discussion between natural and unnatural, especially in relation to a woman’s purpose, frustrated me. On page 116, it was stated that a woman who conceives is essentially a goddess. Although this is a p […]

Janae Due wrote a new post, Objectification

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:31:02 +0000

POCILL12 wrote a new post, Speculation on Yod

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:49:04 +0000

The cyborg’s name is Yod. I want to speculate about the name; it may or may not reflect what the author Marge Piercy thought about when choosing that name for that particular character.

Yod (rhymes with mode) […]

Sierra Spaulding wrote a new post, When, if at all, is violence acceptable?

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:28:37 +0000

We spoke at length in class about violence. Yod, our cyborg character who is programmed to defend, kills four people. He is programmed to use violence in the protection of someone else – Shira. There is this f […]

Miranda Sendek wrote a new post, The Idea of What's Natural

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:58:05 +0000

An idea that carries throughout He, She and It is the idea of the natural and unnatural. On Tuesday we talked about this idea in class, and the idea has been in my mind since. Yod thinks he is “something […]

Andrew wrote a new post, Humanity the Virtuous

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:48:34 +0000

Today (11/10/2016) in class, we brought up the definition of humanity. What is it? What does it encompass? Well, for starters, I shall define humanity as a virtue. Virtues are defined as traits that are deemed […]

HANSWC10 wrote a new post, Motherhood and Upbringing

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:31:20 +0000

In Marge Piercy’s Book He, She, and It the story starts off with the dramatic court battle over the custody of little Ari which inevitably leads to Shira only getting partial custody of her 2 year old son she so […]

Maryssa wrote a new post, Fashion as a Social Construct

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:46:26 +0000

In a discussion about Piercy’s He, She, and It, social constructs came to the surface of the conversation. The conversation had begun with Yod being unnatural, then argued that so much of what is considered […]

SOMEFE30 wrote a new post, Community

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:12:44 +0000

Today in class we were focusing a lot on Yod and how he wasn’t treated as if he had feelings or choices, but by what we have read it does seem that this cyborg makes his own choices. I wanted to address Yod and h […]