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Fascination with the Unorthodox from the Western Perspective
Jen Bervin, Silk Roads
Silk Poems has a cross-cultural element to it. In some ways, it explores the foreign, Chinese language, from a Western perspective.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
The creature in Frankenstein could be likened to an alien. It is foreign and it disorganizes our understanding of the world.
Octavia Butler, Dawn
This is the epitome of the "alien" in our class. The narrative is about extraterrestrial life forms and how humanity interacts with them. It also has a lot to say about society.
Primo Levi, "Observed from a Distance"
Primo's piece asks how Earth seems from an outside perspective. It has some satirical element that criticizes the state of our society.
Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith, Destroyer
Victor LaValle's work is on the same layer of commentary on society. However, it leans more towards an exploration of the "alien".
Alien
Robert Hooke, "Of the Point of a Needle"
This is an early scientific observation that begins to move us away from a Western perspective that has yet to discover/build a scientific worldview.
Ray and Charles Eames, Power of Ten
The epitome of science in our course readings. This video expands our scope of reality and puts into perspective how little we truly understand our universe.
Benjamin Labatut, "Prussian Blue" from When We Cease to Understand the World
Labatut's piece makes a commentary on soecity's reaction to modernity. Seeing newfound capabilities of science, ideological strife leads a narrative that questions evil.
Elizabeth Young, "The United States of Frankenstein"
A commentary on society that is anecdotal and pushes society closer to what it is today. It criticizes slavery with an analysis of Frankenstein.
Kathryn Crim, "Marx, Silk Poems, and the Pretext of Qualities"
Crim makes a commentary on society heavily centered on a specific ideological standpoint, Marxism. This begins to move towards a modern view on the world.
Modernity
Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”
A modern view of identity. Stryker challenges traditional views of the identity of Frankenstein and thus challenges traditional views of the gender binary.
Francis Bacon, selections from Novum Organum on the “idols
of the mind”
This is an exploration of ideology within the self.
Margaret Cavendish, "A Dialogue between an Oake, and a Man cutting Him Downe"
This is ideology that starts to move outside of the self. This is an early form of permanence of the world around humans.
Blaise Pascal, excerpt from Pensées
This is a reflection on experiences and observations of the universe. It moves away from a geocentric view of the universe. Ideology is understood through Pascal's narrative.
Milton Paradise Lost
An epic about the social structure found within characters of the Bible. This moves far from traditionally Western beliefs.
Ideology
Rhiannon Graybill, “Introduction,” “Fuzzy, Messy, Icky,” from Texts after Terror
Graybill's piece discusses the discomfort of unwanted foreign intrusion on human life. It is a reflection that speaks to the notion of an "alien" experience.
Glenn Ligon, “Study for Frankenstein #1”
Ligon's artwork is another exploration of ideology with a modern perspective. The artwork's words speak to a limitation of language that derails the identity of Frankenstein.
Johnson My Monster My Self
This reading is about gender roles and the notion of a "monster". It fits between ideology and modernity, but also falls under a criticism of society. It falls within a commentary on identity.