Category Archives: Group 2
Fair Trade?
Although anthropology does not explicitly train for “first contact” with extraterrestrials, it does prepare one for dealing with an alien culture. Lilith, as a student of the discipline, is well-suited to the task of understanding intelligent beings that have a different orientation to reality whether that being is human or something else. She has probably […] Continue reading
smackay03 2011-10-24 19:21:20
Lilith interacts and accepts the alien creatures as she is exposed to the food she is given by the other creatures. During her isolation, the food was nearly unrecognizable, but by the end, she eats something that she is very familiar with. One interesting observation I made while reading this novel was the interaction between […]
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Uncanny Canine
This is BigDog, a robot designed to carry heavy loads over rough terrain. It’s…grotesque. The way it tries to balance itself (at the 0:35 and 1:25 second marks) is truly uncanny—recognizable but repulsively strange at the same time. The buzzing, the stilted gait, and the lack of a head is a little creepy. It’s as if a […] Continue reading
Comment on “Man’s New Best Friend”
This post is the comment posted in response to Rich Borean’s post. Why rats? Good question. The creators could have just as easily used a cuter creature like the hamster, which would have heightened for the reader the emotional impact (i.e. empathy towards the animal and fury at the scientists) that p.25 is meant to evoke. However, […] Continue reading
Psyched about WE3
Matthew Miller makes a fascinating connection between WE3 and Freudian psychology here. Grant Morrison is pretty big into psychology. I had a friend tell me about his use of Jungian psychology or something along those lines in his comics…The three main characters can somewhat be ascribed to the Freudian ideas of the id, ego, and superego. […] Continue reading
We3
In yesterday’s class, we discussed page 25, where the rat with the drill attached to its head attacks a fellow rat. The observations in class made where how the comic panels focused in on the rat from three different view points. At one point, the terror in the rat’s eyes is seen as it is […]
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Man’s New Best Friend
I am looking at page 25 in the hardback version. On this page, we see the first evidence of what has truly gone on in the government lab; a rat working on a jet engine is suddenly controlled by the … Continue reading →
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Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Wow. I am blown away by the violent nature of WE3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. It’s not that I’m shocked by the excessive use of weapons, blood and death. Our entertainment industry has already numbed me with murder in movies and television and with shoot ‘em up action in video games. Instead, I […]
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2 in We3
I just successfully (and happily) made it through my first reading of a graphic novel! We3 was extremely visually stimulating and…dare I say it…surprisingly heartwarming, in spite of the blood and gore. We3 tells the tale of 3 prototype cyborgs … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Molly Millions Mystique: The case for MM as feminist symbol
In her book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that women were expected to “find fulfillment only in sexual passivity, male domination, and nurturing maternal love” (2001, p. 92). This view was perpetuated by “stories and articles that showed women as either happy housewives or unhappy, neurotic careerists, thus creating the ‘feminine mystique’” (“Feminine Mystique”). Friedan […] Continue reading