Literature and Political Imagination: Hope in Hard Times
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English 1102 Literature and the Political Imagination: Hope in Hard Times
English 1102 - Welcome Welcome! We ll get started in a few minutes. While everyone is getting settled, reminder to drop a hello into the chat. This is how I ll take attendance. Example: Hi everyone, Naava here! Remember to say goodbye at the end of class before you go. Please change your zoom screen name to the name we should call you. Add your pronouns if you wish. Example: Naava (she/her) Please keep video on. Feel free to use Zoom backgrounds.
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Annotating refresher 1. Click view options (look for the black bar in your toolbar) 2. Click Annotate 3. Use the Draw tool, text tool to write, stamps tool to show you agree
Review: Blackboard Any questions about Blackboard areas? Course Outline: Find your weekly preparation instructions Find due dates for assignments Participate in weekly discussion board Check Week By Week & Announcements Use breadcrumbs to navigate douglascollege.blackboard.com
Course Themes recap: What is the relationship between literature and the real world?
Utopian and dystopian thought: each contains elements of the other. Literature can remind us of who we are, can warn us, can inspire us, and can help us organize
What is the relationship between the past, the present, and the future? The dangers of purity or of a clean start : 1. loss of necessary cultural ecology 2. Whose culture gets to be considered neutral ?
Solarpunk grows out of Cyberpunk Literary analysis explores relationship between form and content The Hale centre is reclaimed for the Boston homeless community, just as the dystopian 1980s genre of cyberpunk is reclaimed by the Utopian Solarpunk Neuromancer, 1984 Blade Runner, 1982 (DADOES 1968)
The Boston Hearth Project Formal elements: heavy reliance on verbs, many short one syllable words, creates motion and sense of action First person limited point of view: we only hear inside Andie s I (15) perspective Setting: Building as a world of its own? Contained locations create vivid worldcraft: Kay s house (16), hotel room (17), Hale Centre & city of Boston (19)
The Boston Hearth Project Formal elements: heavy reliance on verbs, many short one syllable words, creates motion and sense of action Many staccato (T, K, P) sounds and single-syllable words: sleek glass pane (18) those had been stripped out (18) ten foot drop onto tile (20) I checked in on the guard cam (23) I know how high she can jump (17)
The Boston Hearth Project Formal elements: heavy reliance on verbs, many short one syllable words, creates motion and sense of action jump (17) slam got let (24), drop (19), tuck (19) burst (23) stuck (17) Even the nouns are often single syllable and active: leaps (19), drop (19) siege (24) Cyberpunk terminology and visuals: kit (17, 18) to refer to computer display / equipment
The Boston Hearth Project Response to Cyberpunk, but: Characters notisolated: large support network: Kay s colleagues who make and put up posters (19), social media team who make the siege a PR nightmare (24), larger and larger body of volunteers (24) Racialization is humanizing (rather than stylized or exoticized): Juniper s accent (21), long black hair (18) Disability: active & characters possess agency: chair seemed like a better decision (18) part of character (18) structural access through infrastructure and through interdependence & reliable community: friends ready to pick me up (23).
The Boston Hearth Project Heist genre from cyberpunk & older hardboiled detective fiction: countdowns and planned timing: took about seven and a half minutes (23), about eighteen minutes until the cops arrive (23) after this, it s a speed run (22) Heist genre with an ethical twist: the central characters do not benefit personally or financially, eg Kay hasn t been in the Hearth at all this year (25), Juniper is wanted (25) The characters deeply trust each other, unlike in heist stories that are every man for themselves where characters know they could betray each other any minute
The Boston Hearth Project Response to Cyberpunk, but: Hypermodern visual landscape reimagined as yellows and oranges painted by artists who rappelled down from the roof (24). Physically intervening in greys and metals of cyberpunk and corporate world Role of police, abolitionist impulse: weapons are not kept, they are destroyed (24) We disassembled their weapons, smashed important pieces with heavy objects, and rained down gun parts onto the tops of cop cars (24)
Breakout: 8 minutes Share your name Do you see The Boston Hearth Project as more Utopic, or more dystopic? In the story, the police are disarmed. How do you imagine the characters will handle conflict and harm in their community that forms inside the building? What would be the best way? Reminders: Raise hand icon to ask me to come help I may drop in to the breakout room, don t be surprised. Just there to help and listen You can exit the room if done early Countdown will appear when breakout is almost over
The Boston Hearth Project The Boston Hearth Project : more Utopic, or more dystopic? Collect quotes and evidence from the story (w page numbers!) you could use in your essay Utopic dystopic
In The Boston Hearth Project, the police are disarmed. How do you imagine the characters handle conflict and harm in their community inside the building, once it is theirs? If you could make up the world, would you have police? If yes, why If no, what would you replace them with?
Short Writing Practice: Citation Go to douglascollege.blackboard.com Navigate to Assignments and Handouts Navigate to Short Writing Exercises Short Writing: Citations Fill in answers & check your own answers Name your file: use the Tech One Sheet (very important! Name must be precise or will not be considered submitted!) Save in Short Writing folder
How to Upload to One Drive Go to douglascollege.blackboard.com Click on Submit to One Drive Log in to One Drive with your college credentials Name your file: use the Tech One Sheet (very important! Name must be precise or will not be considered submitted!) Save in Short Writing folder
Assignments By Friday: Short Writing Exercise: Citations (check your own answers) By Sunday: Readings in Course Outline Contribute to discussion board Use citations from the texts and be specific and precise! Page numbers, etc. Reply once to the discussion question, and once to a peer Familiarize yourself with course outline and where to find assignments Check course outline, Week by Week folder, and Announcements every week.
Thanks! See you next week! Email me or schedule office hours using the office hours scheduler. I m here to help. Check the course outline first to see if your question can be answered there. You can use the Questions forum in the Blackboard Discussion Board for questions that others in class may be able to help with.
