Hello, I’m Alex!
I’m 19 years old and I plan on completing a dual major in biology and philosophy. I am interested in this class because I am interested in the ways that technology has revolutionized our global culture and art as well as the advancement of medicine. Additionally, I read a book called Black Box by Jennifer Egan in an English class last year, which follows a female “citizen agent” as she uses futuristic spy technology to accomplish a mission to infiltrate the inner circle of powerful, rich men. The story was originally written in a series of tweets, and is rumored to be about her relationship with Steve Jobs. In this class, I think it could be interesting to explore the ways in which technology affected literature in a sort of compare and contrast method.
So far, I am making parallels to things I learned in previous classes in our weekly reading (humanities, art history, etc) so if anyone makes any similar connections we should put them in the annotations on Perusall!
Have a good semester!
Thank you, Alex, for posting first!
I love the topic of technology affecting literature, and yes, all connections are welcome. Your class, History 106, is using Perusall for articles. History 105 (History of England) is using it for their primary source documents. So anything from Honors work can and should be brought into the conversation. 🙂
Hello Alex! It is very nice to meet you. I intend to study biology as well. I really look forward to getting to know you and having meaningful conversations with you. I used the Perusall application for the first time a few days ago, and I thought it was really great. I’ve never used an online application like that before to interact with other students while analyzing a primary source document. That book sounds like a very interesting read! Since you’re studying biology and philosophy are you at all interested in Bioethics. I really want to take a class in bioethics.
All the best! 🙂
Gabriela
Hello, Alex,
It’s nice to meet you. I’m also hoping to make connections to literature and my other classes. I think your “compare contrast” idea is interesting because there are certainly science fiction writers who were visionaries and made uncanny predictions. There is also so much in contemporary technology that inspired writers.