Category: English 467: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
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A reflection on a talk by Louise Erdrich
Native American author Louise Erdrich gave a talk today at Milner Library at Illinois State University, and the following entry is my reflection on what she had to say as it intersects with race, rhetoric, and technology. Erdrich began her talk (which was so well attended that extra chairs were…
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Course Project Proposal
In my course project, I plan to examine the relationship of reproductive technology and culture. My purpose is to interrogate two main ideas: how institutions prescribe technology to fit particular cultures as well as how individuals appropriate technologies and enculturate those technologies on their own behalf. This examination will involve…
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On Indigeneity
This week we are examining Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart’s Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics. Partly because all members of our class are reading the Introduction (while the other reading is dependent on personal choice) and partly because of my fascination with definitions, I’d like to begin by…
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Access: Is it a right? And how do we make it meaningful?
Adam Banks‘ book Race, Rhetoric, and Technology left me thinking something like this: “Hell yes! Wait, what am I supposed to do?” I’m missing the call to action. Or I think I am. Banks’ parting admonition to “carry others” confuses me, reinforcing my belief that there were parts of this…
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Bodies in a technologized world
This week’s reading provided me with at least two sources that combine several of my own interests. “Tales of an Asiatic Geek Girl: Slant from Paper to Pixels” and “Their Logic against Them: Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley” both combined technology and gender in engaging ways.…
Erin Anne Clark 