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He explained how this cultural fascination with comparing the human brain to the highest form of technological advancement has been popular in human history. It is the popular phrase that “the brain is like a computer.”Ĭhiang explained that the phrase says little about the capabilities of the brain, but a lot about society’s close relation with technology and how instilled it is in our culture. His lecture was focused on one example of Folk Biology in particular and it is a plague found in Sci-Fi narratives. Not only is the statement false but the longer the mindset persists the harder it is to remedy. Folk Biology, as he explained it, is when society attributes incorrect colloquial ideas to actual science, for example the idea that people cannot get fit unless they eat meat. The lecture provided insight into the methodology that Chiang uses to create stories.Ĭhiang used the lecture to air his many grievances with the contemporary use of Folk Biology. His main focus was the Sci-Fi genre, but he explained how folk biology hinders story structure in general. Chiang is a critically acclaimed author whose novella “Story of Your Life” was the basis for the 2016 Oscar nominated film Arrival. His lecture, titled “Why the Brain is Not a Computer”, focused on the common misconceptions of Folk Biology in the media and how they hurt our ability to tell a narrative. On March 27, FIU’s School of Computer Information and Sciences and the Department of English co-hosted a public lecture with guest speaker Ted Chiang. The genre thematised topics such as death, decay, ghosts and curses. Gothic literature was a genre that originated in the romantic period. For instance, the writer Sigurd Mathiesen wrote gothic horror stories in the same period that were precisely about homoerotic love.” “The relationship between the narrator and the stranger may also be read as a doppelganger motif, in which case the stranger may be interpreted as a part of the narrator’s ‘I’ that he does not want to acknowledge,” he says. “I find it reasonable to read the power struggle between the narrator and the stranger as sexually charged: Two men battle with a homoerotic desire that they cannot act out, and they fight and struggle because they need to repress their true feelings.” Horror as pretextĪt the same time, the short story is also a type of horror story, Johnsson maintains. “In Hemmelig ve, however, there is a man who pursues another man, but no-one has interpreted that as erotic. Researchers have often interpreted this as an erotic motif. They meet four times, and there is a sort of power struggle going on between them.”Īccording to Johnsson, there are several examples of men pursuing women in Hamsun’s texts. “The two of them have a very strange relationship. Henrik Johnsson reads the short story Hemmelig ve (‘Secret Suffering’) as a story about homoerotic desire. The novel was adapted into a four-episode television miniseries, Wallander, by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television in 1994. The story focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration, and explores themes of racism and national identity. But his conclusion leads to several racially-motivated attacks after the information is leaked to the press. He thinks that Mrs Lovgren's last word is accurate, and that the murderers are foreign. Rydberg has been examining the noose around Mrs Lovgren's neck and "has never seen one like it before". Maria Lovgren is taken to hospital, but dies anyway. Inspector Kurt Wallander, a forty-two-year-old Ystad police detective, is put on the case with his team: Rydberg, an aging detective with rheumatism Martinsson, a 29-year-old rookie Naslund, a thirty-year veteran Svedberg, a balding, forty-something-year-old detective Hansson and Peters. Inside an almost isolated Skåne farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man, Johannes Lövgren, is tortured to death and his wife Maria savagely beaten and left for dead with a noose around her neck. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. Faceless Killers ( Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. Because they were picking up on visual details it was also much easier for them to explain their ideas to the other students and conversely much easier for the listening students to understand what they were saying - facilitating actual discussion between students rather than constant vying for my attention. Not only are the pictures very detailed but much of the detail repeats cleverly throughout the book allowing the students to approach the idea of patterns and development as part of a text through the much more accessible route of pictures. It's this last part that I think makes Ottoline and the Yellow Cat such a great book for teaching close reading to second graders. It's been three months since I taught this book to my group of second graders and they STILL reference it during discussions of entirely unrelated books! Not only that but they bring in other books from the series and insist I look at visual motifs that have carried through from this book, the first in the series. She has pursued whales herself, visiting decomposing whales, going whale watching and, as a child, reaching out a small hand to touch a whale skeleton in a museum (a skeleton whose provenance she later traces, wondering how so many dead whales came to hang in museums). Her investigation is historical, cultural, biological and personal. Whale eyes, whale tongues, whale noises, whale skin: Giggs explores the contours of humans’ obsession with whales over time in terrific specificity. As this opening anecdote suggests, Giggs has an eye for unforgettable and disturbing details that probe at the ancient and ongoing relationship between humans and whales. To avoid contaminating other wildlife, whales euthanized with Green Dream are then hauled to a dump, where they decompose with human waste. Instead, a poison informally known as Green Dream must be shot by the gallon into the whale. She learns that whales cannot be euthanized through a shot to their brain or heart such acts would only increase the creature’s suffering. As the crowd takes selfies with the heaving leviathan, Giggs approaches an official who might be called upon to euthanize the whale. Australian writer Rebecca Giggs opens her book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, with a disturbing scene: A crowd has gathered to observe the death of a beached whale, a process that can take days as the whale’s insides boil beneath its blubber. This was a fast-paced story, so I’m not going to pick on the fact that I didn’t see much character development. My personality when I text/chat is really different than how I am in real life. Sometimes, when I read a book by new authors, I’d feel a bit detached towards the characters. I received this e-galley from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.įirst thing first, I didn’t imagine I would enjoy it as much as I did. Knowing what she now knows, can Keeley trust him? And can love in the present erase mistakes of the past? He has a different connection to Keeley - one that has nothing to do with phones, and one that will make their new relationship all but impossible. But while Keeley has been playing a part online, Talon has been keeping a secret. Sparks fly when the two finally meet to exchange their phones. Texting Talon, she can be the person she’s always wanted to be. Texting Talon, she can step out of the shadow of her popular twin brother. Keeley learns there’s more to Talon than the egocentric jock most people see. And as Keeley gets to know Talon, she starts to like him. Reluctantly, the two agree to forward messages for a week. It’s even worse when she discovers that the phone she now has belongs to the obnoxious, self-centered Talon and that he’s just left for football camp … with her phone. It’s bad enough when high-school senior Keeley grabs the wrong phone while leaving her small town’s end-of-summer fair. Orazio Gentileschi was a painter from Pisa. She was the eldest child of Prudenzia di Ottaviano Montoni and the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi. Susanna and the Elders, 1610, earliest of her surviving works, Schönborn Collection, PommersfeldenĪrtemisia Lomi Gentileschi was born in Rome on 8 July 1593, although her birth certificate from the Archivio di Stato indicates she was born in 1590. Some of her best known subjects are Susanna and the Elders (particularly the 1610 version in Pommersfelden), Judith Slaying Holofernes (her 1614–1620 version is in the Uffizi gallery), and Judith and Her Maidservant (her version of 1625 is in the Detroit Institute of Arts). Many of Gentileschi's paintings feature women from myths, allegories, and the Bible, including victims, suicides, and warriors. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. Athena is noted for her intelligence, Persephone is mysterious and kind, Artemis is bold and strong, and Aphrodite is "effortlessly beautiful". The series focuses on four primary characters – Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Artemis - as a diverse group of loyal friends. The books are based on Greek mythology and depict the younger generation of the Olympian pantheon as privileged tween students attending Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) to develop their divine skills. The Goddess Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, published by Simon & Schuster under the Aladdin imprint. ( June 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. The novel grants its readers a look not only at a unique interpretation of one of fantasy’s classic races, but into the deeply troubled mind of a member of that species. In 2019 that novel was released, along with a trio of songs by clipping. Upon hearing it, Saga Press Senior Editor Navah Wolfe immediately sought out author Rivers Solomon, fresh from her debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and commissioned the award-winning novelist for the complex task of transmuting a song into a novel. This single, “The Deep” would go on to be nominated for the 2018 Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). Inspired by the tidbits of lore revealed about the album’s lyric-less techno-soundscapes, rapper Daveed Diggs, as part of his experimental hip-hop group, clipping., released a single that further expanded on the world. The idea of an undersea world populated by the mutated children of drowned, pregnant slave women first surfaced as the backstory for the album, “Harnessed the Storm,” the first in a series of seven linked concept albums by Detroit-based electronic duo Drexciya (William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes). Like its aquatic main characters, “The Deep” has a rather complicated history. |