When I was in high school, I was on the debate team for three years. As a relatively unknown and definitively underbudgeted team, we often took advantage of the open evidence files available to us. While this proved somewhat useful, we quickly realized that the majority of bulk of emergent scholarship was still largely inaccessible […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
(AI)n’t She Sweet
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Since mankind could dream of AI he has thought of her as a woman. the trope is so familiar in the shared imagination even Hollywood picked up on its salience. One of the earliest portrayals of the girl bot was in Metropolis. Releasedin 1927, the “expressionist sci-fi epic has influenced everything from Superman to Blade […]
iLost Generation
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Senior year of high school, I made the radical decision to delete Facebook off my phone. I unfollowed people on Instagram and exclusively started following dogs. I never figured out how twitter worked so that was fine. The impetus for all this was college decisions. Ironic given where I am now I suppose but I […]