diff --git a/_posts/2024-07-09-wa-2024-week-27.md b/_posts/2024-07-09-wa-2024-week-27.md index 07ecfb35..ce7ebbed 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-07-09-wa-2024-week-27.md +++ b/_posts/2024-07-09-wa-2024-week-27.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 27" last_modified_at: categories: [weekly-assemblage] -excerpt: 'Postrolls and Posthumans.' +excerpt: 'Postrolls and Posthumans. Plus some other things.' tags: - # header: @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ This week I added a [postroll]({{ site.baseurl }}/postroll) to this site. Distin If you've got your own website, or especially if you're just starting one, these slash pages can be excellent prompts for writing or imagining what you'd like to share. There are a number of directories linked on that page, so you can also springboard from it to other personal sites / IndieWeb / cozy web places online. -## Viewing, Listening, and Reading +## Reading & Viewing -### _How We Became Posthuman_ +### _How We Became Posthuman_ This week I finally finished my first reading of [[How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics]] by N. Katherine Hayles. @@ -43,8 +43,20 @@ This omission leaves me unable to keep myself from wondering what other crucial I'm still fumbling toward a reading notes process at the moment, as well as deciding what I'll leave in my own private "processing notes" and what more polished ideas I'll share here on my site. But I'll likely be adding a few posts as I highlight some of the best "takeaways" from this book—particularly the ones that could be useful within LIS. As I said, there's a wealth to appreciate in _How We Became Posthuman_, despite its overall omission of racialization and gender discourses from its analyses and history. -### _A Realist Theory of Science_ +### _A Realist Theory of Science_ -I've had Roy Bhaskar's [_A Realist Theory of Science_](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9498188M/A_Realist_Theory_of_Science_(Radical_Thinkers)) floating in the back of my mental "to be read" pile for years, at least since I read Sam Popwich enthusing about it on social media or [his site](https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/social-theory-of-neutrality). +I've had Roy Bhaskar's [_A Realist Theory of Science_](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9498188M/A_Realist_Theory_of_Science_(Radical_Thinkers)) floating in the back of my mental "to be read" pile for years, at least since I read Sam Popowich enthusing about it on social media or [his site](https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/social-theory-of-neutrality). -I'm thus far only through the introduction, and I'm not sure if I'll continue at the moment. It feels like it might be a really useful background to other thinkers like Patricia Hill Collins, Donna Haraway, or Sandra Harding. But with so many other things directly on my [exam lists]({{ site.baseurl }}/notes/Reading/Lists/)… well, we'll see. \ No newline at end of file +I'm thus far only through the introduction, and I'm not sure if I'll continue at the moment. It feels like it might be a really useful background to other thinkers like Patricia Hill Collins, Donna Haraway, or Sandra Harding. But with so many other things directly on my [exam lists]({{ site.baseurl }}/notes/Reading/Lists/)… well, we'll see. + +### Office Space + +Oh! We also watched _Office Space_ over the weekend, partially to celebrate its 25th anniversary and partially to celebrate my spouse's change in employment. + +It still holds up, even though both of us are fortunate enough to work remotely. + +### Last Night + +Finally, to celebrate Canada Day, we played tabletop curling, feasted on our odd "poutine/nachos" concoction, listened to some of our favorite CanCon music, and watched [Last Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_(1998_film)), a wry film that reminded me of the "art house" movies I'd see in the 1990s. + +To its credit, the film never explains the specifics of the apocalypse its characters are facing, just explores how they deal with the oncoming end of the world. All the same, I couldn't help but wonder whether it's a more extreme version of what seems to have happened in Delaney's _Dhalgren_. \ No newline at end of file