Last week a dream of mine came true. I sat in a darkened, Seattle theater, three rows from the stage; a stage which used to house a large projector screen and a heavy damask curtain, but now was strewn with guitars and speakers. The Neptune Theatre had been renovated a year after I graduated college,Continue reading “Inspiration – Sounds Which Bind”
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A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 3 of 7)
III. Man vs. Nature: The Fembot Debate before Computer Technology While issues of femininity and the debate about machine intelligence are at the forefront of the Fembot ‘trope’, there is a bigger, more pervasive issue that this character addresses. Whether the story she inhabits is using her character to question the nature of femininity (isContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 3 of 7)”
Inspiration: Storytellers Who Paint
My family has always been a museum family. As a child I remember that our outings included trips to museums five times as often as they did shopping or going to the movies. Vacations were filled with visits to aquariums, zoos, local historical archives, and civil war battlefields, where I would stand on the groundContinue reading “Inspiration: Storytellers Who Paint”
A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)
II. Techno-Politics and Gender Politics: Conflict in the Fembot The question then becomes how our attitudes towards technology inform our attitudes towards gender as seen in the figure of the Fembot in popular science fiction literature. The Fembot is a figure composed of equal parts machine and programmed femininity. In each narrative, the Fembot becomesContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)”
A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)
I. The Fembot: An Introduction “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”, explains theorists Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler (Mulvaney). Kramarae and Treichler are two of many theorists interested in the figure of femininity in common cultural practices. The field of feminist theory and critique has existed for decades and shows no signsContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)”