Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'Black'
Robot Vernacular
(source) Clicking downloads a 2.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .” I'm interested in the kinaesthetics of such dances, the way in which mechanism and organism are...
Embodied Threat
Analyzing Billy Idol’s “Cyberpunk” video, Thomas Foster notesAfter Idol’s character stands and begins to move, following [his] transformation [into a cyborg], the police open fire on him, apparently interpreting his merely standing in front of them in this newly embodied...
Stupid Me
Before getting yesterday carried away by a gushy, embarrassing tide of love for my former and future loves, I started with the observation thatEarlier this week I made a push to begin (I always begin at the beginning) my first...
What's that buzzing noise?
Overheard in a meeting somewhere:“The department would save quite a bit of money if instead of making copies we all used Blackboard.”“Did he just say ‘black boy’? ”“I don’t know about the rest of you but I use my black...
Black Modernism isn't always only about “being black”
Last night, George, Barrett (Barry) Watten, Carla Harryman, and I drove to Columbus to see Bryan Barber’s Idlewild (2006). It may have been the first time I saw a movie about black people that was not about being black....
Recombinant Media, Chapter 3
Writer Dwayne McDuffie, whose work is the primary subject of the third chapter of Recombinant Media, has expressed curiosity about what I've written. So, here is that third chapter and its notes for handy reference (the notes are included...
Prototype for a Black Cyborg Subject: A Tinderbox HTML Export Demonstration
In the middle of posting this entry, I found out that one of the writers of Marvel’s 1991 Deathlok series, Dwayne McDuffie, was considering purchasing my dissertation. I don’t even know what my royalty rate is. To be honest,...
Civil Rights versus Copyright
If people had stuck to the law, black people wouldn't have the right to use restaurants and hotels. If people had stuck to the law, women wouldn't have the right to vote. If people had stuck to the law,...
In the Name of Love
Dream sweetly, brother....
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