Technology’s Illusory Benefits in The Tempest
Rachel Reich ENG 399W Professor Buell 26 September 2010 Technology’s Illusory Benefits in The Tempest William Shakespeare’s final piece of theatrical magic, The Tempest, lends itself to myriad layers...
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Defoe’s Psychoanalysis (or Lack Thereof) of Robinson Crusoe
“The function of Crusoe’s diary, it seems, is not to anatomize the self, but rather to keep track of it in the modern fashion that Riesman [David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd] describes: “The...
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Clocks- They’re Taking Over
Although this image doesn’t exactly show a clock, per se, its message was too poignant to pass over. In this depiction, a woman encounters some sort of law enforcement officer, and in what she...
View ArticleFrankenstein
While reading this heart-wrenching novel, I was (obviously) trying to decide what kind of creator, or inventor, Victor Frankenstein is. The element that struck me as unique to VF’s story was his...
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Labor for the Lower Classes- In Every Century
In William Turner’s 19th century landscape, Ploughing up Turnips near Slough, a combination of male and female workers toil to gather turnips at harvest time. These simple laborers work in tandem with...
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby and a New American East
Although I expected to find it difficult to interpret The Great Gastby from a techno-critical standpoint (because of how the assignment was phrased), I’ve found that it has been a very elucidating aid...
View ArticleNighthawks
Edward Hopper uses, most obviously, the techniques of lighting and shadowing in Nighthawks to illuminate the figures sitting inside Phillies in Manhattan one evening. As the viewer, we are supposed to...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney in the Sudan
The following is an excerpt from an article written by Nicholas Kristof for The NY Times. Readers submitted questions that were then posed to George Clooney about his stint with malaria in Sudan. “Q....
View ArticlePersonal Homonization
My Personal Technic: To André Varanac, “‘the technology of the body’ expressed in dance and mimetic movements, was both the earliest form of any kind of technical order and the earliest manifestation...
View ArticleDavid Abram’s Participatory Nature
Through careful and detailed instruction, Abram shows that our relationship with our environments (and specifically with the natural world) is inherently and necessarily synaesthetic. However, his...
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