Year of the Flood: Second Response
Two recurring motifs in Year of the Flood are the environment and women. On face value these two might seem like two completely separate issues, but in reality they are actually very interrelated. Many feminist theorist argue that women inherently share a closer bond to nature than men. This is both defined by their physiology and their psychology. Rosser touched […]
Year of the Flood: Post 1
The first thing immediately notice about Year of the Flood, is the power that it wields compared to the Hunger Games. I think that although the Hunger Games was technically a protest piece of literature, it was largely a novel meant to sell and entertain a wide audience, ranging from pre-teens to adults. Year of […]
Technology Diary: Affirmative Action and STEM
As someone who is fascinated and a student of race relations, I often relate things in this course back to parallels or the intersectionality of the issues that people of color face. One hot topic affecting people our age (especially as of late) is affirmative action. Obviously for a general college admissions policy, women are […]
Technology Diary: Robots
Robots. Before they were even possible, the idea was always obsessed over. Dating back to the early mechanical robots of the renaissance and through the science fiction of the 1960s, and even to today, humans have been completely fascinated by the concept of a robot, so much so that entire mythologies have been created surrounding both the […]
Haraway & Halberstam Reading Response
The readings by Haraway and Halberstam were a mixed blessing for me. On the one hand, they delved into a fascinating conversation of Marxist Feminism and how technology and postmodernism can fit into this framework. On the other hand, they were quite dense (especially Haraway), not unlike a lot of Marxist literature. Both authors utilize […]
Technology Diary 2: Big Machinery
As I sat down to write this blog post, I realized that my blog posts in the technology diary are probably very different than those of my other classmates. Being the only man in the class, I find myself comparing the usage of technology from a man’s perspective to that of a woman’s, rather than […]
Reading Response 2: de Lauretis
The chapter by Teresa de Lauretis “The Technology of Gender,” was far from an easy read. De Lauretis discusses our conceptions of gender and how we construct it. She brings up some interesting points about how gender really only exists when we conceive of it at all. And if we really wanted to wish away […]
Technology Diary 1: Facebook
For this post I decided to go for more of a software aspect of technology rather than the more concrete hardware. Facebook, with over a billion users, a movie about it, an extremely valuable stock, and a key part of the Millennial generation’s social fabric, it is a piece of technology that plays a major role in […]
Rosser/Freedman/Fausto Sterling
Sue V. Rosser, Anne Fausto Sterling, and Estelle B. Freedman, in their respective writings all take on the task of trying to uncover the complexities of feminist conceptions, gender norms, and ultimately trying to redefine how people view feminism. Sue V. Rosser in her essay “Using the Lenses of Feminist Theories to Focus on […]
Introduction
Hello everyone. My name is Jonah Garnick and I’m a sophomore at Hunter. I’m double majoring in Urban Studies and Africana Puerto Rican Latino Studies, and minoring in Public Policy. I chose to take this class for two main coinciding reasons. The first being relevance, as we all are millennials, technology plays a very very […]
