If you attend this talk, I will let it count for one of you weekly blog requirements (i.e., extra credit). I will be there and will take roll! Also, this would be a great opportunity for you to see an example of how to work with literature and culture from an eco-critical perspective (i.e., example of how to approach your final projects/papers).
The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to present its
Spring 2010 Work in Progress Talk Series
Please join us for a talk by
Alf Seegert
Tanner Graduate Fellow - Dept. of English
Please join us for a talk by
Alf Seegert
Tanner Graduate Fellow - Dept. of English
Cybercultural Ecologies: Interfacing Nature and Virtuality
Cybercultural Ecologies examines the interpenetrating relationships between people, environment, and technovirtuality. Operating at the interface between ecocriticism and cyberculture, it focuses on texts (literary, cinematic, and new media) which depict varying conceptions of technology, virtuality, and their effects. Understanding these effects is ecologically crucial, because technovirtual interfaces profoundly alter one’s experience of nature, corporeality, relationships, and sense of place.
In this presentation I lay out some of the main arguments of my dissertation and then conclude by discussing the intriguing ways in which nature and virtuality come together in James Cameron’s new film Avatar.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
3:30-5pm
*** Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building ***
Conference Room (Room 143)
Please join us! Delicious refreshments will be served.
Cybercultural Ecologies examines the interpenetrating relationships between people, environment, and technovirtuality. Operating at the interface between ecocriticism and cyberculture, it focuses on texts (literary, cinematic, and new media) which depict varying conceptions of technology, virtuality, and their effects. Understanding these effects is ecologically crucial, because technovirtual interfaces profoundly alter one’s experience of nature, corporeality, relationships, and sense of place.
In this presentation I lay out some of the main arguments of my dissertation and then conclude by discussing the intriguing ways in which nature and virtuality come together in James Cameron’s new film Avatar.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
3:30-5pm
*** Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building ***
Conference Room (Room 143)
Please join us! Delicious refreshments will be served.
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