Cultural Studies:  Imagining Technoculture
Seminar Presentations

Frankenstein
Sept. 20 

critical reception:  Ron Sweeney 
female creature: Tiff Kopp
               Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
            http://maillist.isu.edu/pipermail/engl328/2000/000005.html
            Body Parts That Matter: Frankenstein, or The Modern Cyborg?

Dracula
Sept. 27
critical reception:  Frano Marsic
Dracula on the web:  Ann-Marie Vaughan
             Notes on Bram Stoker's Dracula 
            
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897): An Introduction
             Multimedia form as used in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Renfield--technologies of the normal and pathological:  Sasha Chittaro

Oct 4.
Mina Harker--technologies of the feminine:  Flora Yung
                 http://www.hauntedink.com/ghost/intro.html
              Confession as Panopticism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
                 
http://www.louisville.edu/~skowen02/panopticdracula.html

Andy Warhol & Dracula:  Craig Meadows

Crash
Oct. 11
critical reception:  Juliana Lee
Crash on the web:  Ryan Sahli

J.G. Ballard: Future Shock: an interview with SPIKE magazine

FSAC/ACEC Responses to Crash

Eviscerating David Cronenberg

Yet Another Turner Turnabout -- Or Is It?

J.G. Ballard

David Cronenberg 

David Cronenberg (Crash section)


Oct. 18
cyborgs:  Chris Herbert
conclusion:  Charn Jagpal

Neuromancer
Oct. 25
critical reception: Jonathan Toman
Neuromancer on the web: Kristan Castillo
Neuromancer and Frankenstein:  Dave Eberhardt

http://www.iso.gmu.edu/~arosen/disembod.htm
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/technoculture/pomosf.html 
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/whatis_cyberspace.article
http://uranium.chem.umn.edu/~steve/neuro.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html

Nov. 1
Molly:  Alysha
Wintermute:  Kim Duff

Patchwork Girl
Nov. 8

Critical Reception:  Tom Patterson
Patchwork Girl on the web:  Chris McOuat
http://65.107.211.207/ht/pg/pgov.html 
http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_jackson.html 
http://www.rc.umd.edu/features/rcc/patchwork.html

 

Nov. 15
Patchwork Girl and Frankenstein:  Lindsay Nielsen

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/cpace/ht/pg/pgmain.html

http://www.press.jhu.edu/demo/pmc/10.2hayles.html

http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html
hypertext and one narrative thread:  Kuldip Pawa

The Powerbook
Nov. 22

critical reception:  Susan Mont
computer as metaphor: Joyce Tam

Nov. 27
time and space:  Jordan Scott