The Obscene Machine Blog is an online supplement both to English 493, a literature and film undergraduate class at San Diego State University, and English 725, an Ethnic American cultural studies graduate seminar--both are being directed in the Spring of 2007 by Professor William A. Nericcio and will remain online here as an ersatz archive. These mirrored courses, both experimental, fuse an interrogation of Ethnic American critical theory with a more general probing of "fictional humans"--hence the term "Ethnic Mannequins" as a subtitle for the graduate seminar and its coincident obsessions with cyborgs, novels, stereotypes, and film. Both courses may be interpreted as supplements, if not revisions, to my Tex[t]-Mex book (UT Press, 2007) hovering there below.
The Increasingly Computer-addled Mind Behind this Site