Written Works

Manifestos

These are experiments in reasoning. Some were done as university projects, others ’cause I wanted to. More to come as I get pissed about stuff.

“[A]n english degree is about literature, it is a medium specific study of history. It is not about writing. Writing is something entirely different.”: Probably one of my longer titles but at least it gives you a good idea about what I wanted to say. Basically, I post i put up on this site on December 17, 2007. I wrote it at work but it’s one of the few times I managed to get everything down the way I wanted.

Cyborg-Politics: a response to Donna Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborg”, this details my take on her idea of the so called “freedom” of the cyborg individual. She would rather be a cyborg than a goddess, but I came to a different conclusion. This details a lot of my frustration with feminist writings, and some requisite bitching about marginalization and people forcing an ideal on others.

Tutrtle Power: as an assignment we were to pick something–a book, movie, song whatever–and apply a critical theory that we had studied. I chose to apply Marxism (because that’s easy to apply to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.) Hilarity ensues.

Battle Royal-Who Pwned PoMo?: I wished to compare Neuromancer and Snow Crash as post modern cyber punk novels and see who would win. Some mud, grease and a dirty wrestling ring later we have our winner.

The Feminine Dragon: an annalists of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight (and other novels in the Dragon Riders of Pern series) from a very feminist point of view–the assignment was to prove the work as “valuable”. Try that out in a fourth year English seminar…

Poetry

I don’t consider myself a poet, but sometimes poetry comes anyway.

Winter Part Two: A literary reenactment of James Thomson’s The Seasons from a Maritimer’s point of view.

Oranges: I wrote this at 2am after watching Apocalypse Now Redoux in a really old, cool little theater called “The Vogue”. Interpret as you will.