Thomas Anderson is living a double life by being a computer programmer by day and Neo, a hacker, by night. Neo is being targeted by a threat to the government named, Morpheus. Morpheus introduces Neo to the “real world” of a wasteland where robots imprison human minds within an artificial Continue reading
In the past few classes, we have started to discuss our annotated readings in class. I appreciate this approach because it helps me synthesize different sources of information and apply them to different articles I’ve read, movies I’ve watched or real-life events I’ve seen on the news. I also think Continue reading
Start: Watching dystopian movies in class Discussing how our current reality mimics traits of a dystopian society Stop: Group assignments Weekly blog posts Continue: Podcast assignment Defining Dystopia As the semester slowly comes to an end there is always room for improvement. There is also room for appreciation. This class Continue reading
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco is an article about Eco’s personal experience with Italian fascism along with a synopsis of how it compares to German fascism and the general connotation of fascism. He talks about how his heroes considered of war heroes and how there was no peace without war. In Continue reading
Some of the things that I think I’ve been doing pretty well with in this course: Critically analyze contemporary events. I believe I have a pretty good grasp of analyzing contemporary events. While I don’t watch the news, I do keep up with what’s going on. I have a decent Continue reading
Most of the upper-level XCOR classes (3010s & 3020s) are cross-listed with one or more discipline-specific classes. While that’s not a bad thing, this class has been designed to be free of any specific disciplinary connection. This isn’t a class about dystopian literature (although we will be reading some dystopian novels), nor is it a class about dystopian cinema (although we will be watching some dystopian movies). Instead, this is a class about the very idea of dystopias. Continue reading
