Cyborg Theory

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I hope you all had an excellent weekend, class. Please pass your comparison analysis papers on Metropolis to the front of the room. Thank you.

Now, I have paired the class up in the following manner – and please move to sit with your partner, or in one case, group of three:

1) Veruca Cally, Beka Valentine

2) Lee Adama, Sharon Valerii

3) Bridge Carson, Sam Carter

4) Charlie Kawalsky, Aeryn Sun

5) John Crichton, Anakin Skywalker, Kara Thrace

For your next assignment – due in two weeks – I want you to write delicious crackfic a fictional story of your own focusing on some aspect of cyborg theory. It must make an argument pro or against human to cyborg and/or android relations (of any kind – political, social, romantic, etc).

By the end of class, I want you to have discussed with your partner the nature of the story you would like to write and whether it is to be pro or against human/cyborg/android relations.

If you have any questions, I'll be at my desk. Now get to work.


[Yes, and I actually want you very talented writers to actually do this. Fanfiction and/or crackfic – or original fiction, yay, -- is required, zomg, in two weeks. No word limit. I highly recommend www.writely.com for collaborative fiction.]

Comments

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[can_be_more]

Aeryn pauses long enough to bitch out Beka, then turns back around, nodding.

"I'm sure we can fit them in somewhere," she agrees.

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky offered Aeryn some Skittles. "Any other ideas? How about dealing with sex and robots? Like, say, a human getting physically involved with a killing machine, and then having to deal with the repercussions when the machine goes about its programmed business?"

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[can_be_more]

"Um." She frowns, with a polite head shake to the Skittles. "I'm not very good with stories. I don't really know how to do it."

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Well, me neither. But I know that stories have a couple of things. They need characters, a setting, a plot and a theme. The fembot professor gave us the theme - human/cyborg relations. So now we need a place to set it, a plot - that's a storyline, a tale to tell - and some characters."