as if it knows we’re watching,
That kind of fourth wall breaking happens multiple times in this novel and it never fails to freak me out. It's not just the creature that's more intelligent than one would assume, the entire novel is. McGuire seems to have wanted to make the reader PAINFULLY aware of their role as reader.
But you could also claim it is the reader, your consciousness where everything is pieced together and tries to find, and to understand, itself
I'd say there's a distinction that could be made here where the space is the main character but the reader is the protagonist. This novel seems to have themes that suggest the repetition of time. Similar occurrences appear over and over throughout time and the space we examine just shows us that view. It is then up to us to connect the dots or not, to choose how to go about reading. We decide the novel's purpose, if there is any, and as such become the person driving that purpose forward as protagonist.
one untainted with hollywood adaptations of his works and millions of fans wondering when the sequel to Watchmen will come out.
He could have just...not signed off the rights to make a movie? I looked it up and it seems like he did it thinking nothing would ever come of it. That's just irresponsible to maintaining his underground image.
while maintaining that this access subverts the false consciousness of capitalism and the mainstream comic market.
I'm not sure I'm reading this right. It sounds to me like the author is saying Moore is somehow both a part of the mainstream yet also subverts it? Which could make sense in that he uses nontraditional characters (RORSHACH) in the comic that he seems to have wanted to be more indie than it now is. But again, not suuuper sure.
Both are rebels, prophets, religious and occultic sages. They fill gaping voids in a secular world that has abandoned its older idols and embraced newer ones in the form of literary figures, comic cult icons, rock and film stars. Blake and Moore are prophets of nihilistic revelry, their messages of multiplicity, indeterminacy, spiritual revolution tied firmly into new markets that promote spending, mass publication and commodification.
This guy...he uh, he really liked Watchmen I guess...Cause wow
Trauma, then, whether personal or national, isolates the characters of Watchmen, yet as the nuclear disaster becomes inevitable
What about the dozen other characters? Obviously this one article can touch on only so much, but Jon gets discussed in length and the Newsvendor gets a small section, but others like Laurie and Rorshach only get passing mentions. Laurie in particular has some very complicated traumas that would be interesting to examine in depth.
undermine the belief systems that give meaning to human experience
Makes me think of the convo on Mars. Jon's so separated that Laurie has to convince him that the human experience is worthwhile.
Women like Salon's Britney Cooper and University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler have received their fair share of death threats, racist attacks, and -- in the case of Butler's colleague Salamishah Tillet -- 80 magazine subscriptions made in her name.
It's one thing to be awful to someone on the internet but it's something else entirely to take that hate and bring it into someone's physical life. I wonder, did this level of harassment happen before the internet age? And what is it a result of? Part of me thinks that doing something anonymously over the internet is part of it because with the internet it feels like you'll never face consequences.
Journalist Joshunda Sanders chronicled the abuse prominent WOC academics and activists endure once they speak out on topics involving race and gender.
In the linked article, one of the first things said is this: "...journalist Amanda Hess describes rape threats directed at her for simply being a woman with an Internet connection. She notes that 72.5 percent of people who reported being stalked or harassed online between 2000 and 2012 in one study were women. For women of color, the online complexities are even worse."
Instead of focusing on protecting and restricting students’ Web presence, UMW helps them have more control over their scholarship, data, and digital identity.
So much praise! While I'm interested in getting into Domain of One's Own because of it, I'm curious about negative comments. Does anyone not like this initiative?
There is little incentive for them to equip us with the critical and the technical capacities to run our own servers, to build our own applications, to use and contribute to open source software, to claim our place on the open Web, and ultimately here, to challenge their business models.
It's hard to remember sometimes that capitalism affects education. This is an excellent reminder.
Perhaps because academia doesn’t have the resources.
I feel like this sentence sums up the life story of every teacher I've ever had who had a cool idea and no way of doing it.
ed-tech: it is acceptably behind-the-curve.
I would say ed-tech is unacceptably behind-the-curve! I was lucky enough to go to school in an area that was very high tech so we had smartboards by middle school and they introduced iPads to the classroom in high school. My brother's class had chalkboards and computers that were at least a decade old. While free software is nice to get from Google I wish educators could have access to better hardware across the country, especially considering how necessary it is to know and understand technology today.