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- revision, not so key...
Posted on: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
just a reminder to always mark these messages i SEND unread if you use your
smartphone to get email. You are likely
to not scroll and miss key info when you
survey your class messages on your
smartphone appliances.
On another note, I am starting to update
your GTA contact pages with email addresses
and office hour meeting places and times...
note that your GTA contact info appears online
coded to stifle spambots stealing emails for
spam sendings. for instance, my email
will appear there as MEMO AT SDSU DOT EDU
or bnericci AT mail DOT sdsu DOT edu
replace the word AT with @ and DOT with .
and all will be magic! cheers,
your head robot, Bill
Posted by: William Nericcio - Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
Key Diary Updates!!!!
Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
robots!!!!! be sure to refresh your cache (reload your page) so you get the latest updates!!!
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html#latest
over and out
cyborgnericcio
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
good news and last chance to easily pick up your required textbook POETRY INTERNATIONAL
Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
more apologies as PI staff again let us down today!!!!... BUT, to the RESCUE...
the editor in chief blew a gasket
and now... more hours to exchange 6 george
washingtons for paper and joy:
read for details!
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jenny Minniti- Shippey <jmshippey1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry International Problems
To: "memo@sdsu.edu" <memo@sdsu.edu>
Hi again,
Booksellers coming to your class Tuesday, and the office will be open 11-3 Monday and 12:30-3 Tuesday.
Jenny
T hanks, Jenny!!!!
Bill
Dr. William Anthony Nericcio - Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences (MALAS)
- Professor, English & Comparative Literature
- San Diego State University | MC 6020 | A&L 273
- San Diego, California 92182-6020 office phone: 619.594.1524 This email is a natural product. All noted variations in
- spelling and grammar enhance its individual character
- and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or
- defects. As such, please do not forward this missive without
asking permission in writing. - links: cyber-index @eyegiene textmex@facebook blog tumblr
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
this and that...
Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
androids! robots! cyborgs! reminders that you have to 'like' our robotic erotic electric facebook
page in order to get class updates--
you can do that here. remember that
facebook pages archive outside
posts on a different page here--
this is in case you are worried
that your posting did not go
through.
also, i am seeing posts on social
media with links telling you
where to see HER online free.
setting aside ethical matters, it
is JUST NOT THE SAME to
see a movie on a computer
and in the theatre. in terms of
brain science, it's an other
experience altogether.
there are great matinees
tomorrow and sunday
at fashion valley--a trolley
trip away for those of you
stuck on campus! believe
me, Jonze's opus is worth
7 bucks!
updates to your page diary
in an hour or two...
bill nericcio
head robot
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
have a great weekend...
Posted on: Thursday, January 30, 2014
robotic humanoids, thx for a great week of classes.. I learned so much
from your contributions and feel really lucky to be
part of such a great mob of students...
wanted to let you know I am giving you a little more time for
your readings, with crumb/mairowitz due for Tuesday and
LEVIN's Stepford novella for Thursday... do try to have at least
half of Levin read by Tuesday if can or wish!
updates will be LIVE on your diary page
tomorrow...
lastly, take a peek at our day to day
'syllabus' from london rocks in 2012/
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2012/summer/londonrocks/index.html
mas info here: http://malas.sdsu.edu/LondonRocks2014
sign up for more info here:
OPEN TO ALL MAJORS AND TO YOUR
BUDDIES IN THE UC SYSTEM, COMMUNITY
COLLEGES, AND MORE.
over and out,
Bill Nericcio
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
Reminder!
Posted on: Thursday, January 30, 2014
I am in office hours right now in Arts and Letters 273 till around 3:30 today...
usual office hours are
drop on by and let me know if
I am screwing anything up with
our crazy class!
cheers,
bill nericcio
ps: regular office hours: http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/officehoursspring2014.jpg
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
Apologies
Posted on: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
One of your classmates wrote in to let me know that she and her roommate were
confused by the assignment for tomorrow--
with good reason, the writings was horrible:
both unclear and choppy!
I have revised your diary--be sure to hit
your refresh button or you are likely to
re-see my mangled ungainly prose!
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html#latest
good night!
bill nericcio
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
REMINDER REMINDER
Posted on: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
I just received this email from the managing editor of POETRY INTERNATIONAL... please
come to class with what you need to ease
the process (exact change!)...
Remember, you only need ONE issue--
you pick from four provided according
to your tastes in lit/poetry... this book
is a required text for the class!
Here's her email:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Jenny Minniti
<jmshippey1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: specific issues of PI?
To: Bill Nericcio <memo@sdsu.edu>
Hi Bill,
just confirming: I have two staffers coming to your class from 10:45 to 11 tomorrow morning to sell books! They can accept cash or check, $6. They're bringing about 100 books, so hopefully that will assuage the masses clamoring for poetry. The office will be staffed Thursday from 12:30 to 3 pm also.
Thanks again,
Jenny
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
minor update to your robotic erotic electric class diary...
Posted on: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
please note the update to your class diary giving you
extra time to screen HER for
class!!!!!!
be SURE to refresh your
cache (reload your webpage)
when hitting this link... if you do
not, you may not see updated
information
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
update on poetry international...
Posted on: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
from PI with their apologies for today's mixup! Poetry International is for sale in AL 262, from 11-3 pm Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, and various hours during the following weeks. PI will also be for sale before class on Thursday, Jan. 30th, in Peterson Gym at 10:45 am. The cost is $6, payable by cash or check. You may choose to purchase issue 4, 11, 12, or 13/14. Thanks, and enjoy your poems!
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
reminder--bring infosheet filled out with details to class tomorrow...
Posted on: Monday, January 27, 2014
reminder--bring infosheet filled out with details to class tomorrow...if you absolutely CANT draw, yes you can paste in a picture!!!!- link: http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/roboticINFOSHEET_1.pdf
Posted by: William Nericcio - Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
diary updates!
Posted on: Monday, January 27, 2014
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
home page updated!
Posted on: Monday, January 27, 2014
many of you have been writing with queries regarding your required
book, POETRY INTERNATIONAL--
I have updated your homepage to
reflect new info--it appears below
along with the issues you can
select from... Poetry International
Staff will be coming to class tomorrow
to sell copies--bring your 6 bucks!!!!
One note about a text NOT shown on your textbooks lists above--for this section of 220 (220.03 to be exact) you are required to purchase a copy of POETRY INTERNATIONAL for the class. POETRY INTERNATIONAL is edited and published by San Diego State University Press and is run out of the SDSU English Department. I have made special arrangements to let you select any ONE from four different issues of Poetry International, either issues (4, 11, 12, 13/14)? We have arranged for you to pay only $6 for your issue (a HUGE savings), but you must buy it direct from the Poetry International offices, Arts and Letters 262 (CASH OR CHECK ONLY)!!! (for now). They plan to have staff there daily between 11 and 3pm the week of Janurary 27 to January 31st. Pick the issue that most closely mirrors your interests; here are your choices--pick ONE:
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
Who is Driving this Crazy Spaceship!????
Posted on: Monday, January 27, 2014
Bios are now live for your robotic board of directors!!!
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/GTAs.html
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
updates to your tumblr
Posted on: Saturday, January 25, 2014
robots! -------------------------------
i changed the look of your tumblr and added multiple posts here: http://roboticeroticelectric.tumblr.com
-------------------------------
summary of all previous blackboard emails
to the class here: http://roboticeroticelectric.tumblr.com/post/74349271389/all-prior-posts-to-the-class-pre-jan-25-2014
read all the stuff here if you just crashed to bring
yourself up to speed!
-------------------------------
class main website here:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/
-------------------------------
over and out, head robotNericcio
ps: one of the books we are reading this
semester (a strange one!) Textmex, has
a blog that updates/reflects the book in
real time! you can see that here:
http://textmex.blogspot.com
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
very cool conference coming up @ ucsd...
Posted on: Friday, January 24, 2014
robots, cyborgs, and androids!!!! who is up for a cinetrek roadtrip!?????!!!!!! read the description and then answer the poll below... Gregory Hampton: “Racing and Sexing Robots: Analysis of the boundaries between 21st Century Robots and 19th Century Slaves”
Thursday, February 13, 2014
4:00-5:30pm
Literature Building Room 155 (de Certeau)
With the technological advances over the past few decades it is inevitable that the creation and dissemination of robots and similar technology will become commonplace in the households and imaginations of the American populous. Japan has already produced humanlike robots that can sing and dance. What is more interesting is how these robots are assigned both race and gender as identity markers. Why does a machine need such a complex identity, if that machine is designed to only complete the mundane labor that humanity wished to forgo? One plausible response is that the robot is being designed to be more than an appliance but less than a human. In other words the technology of the 21st Century is in the process of developing a modern day socially accepted slave. Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. produced in the year 1921 in Czechoslovakia was not merely a science fictive fantasy; it was a prophetic look into humanity’s destiny. The employment of the robot remains at the center of the literary genre of science fiction and is inextricable from the discourse of slavery and the African American. Unfortunately, if such a machine happens to take root in the American social system founded on the notion of slavery, the results will yield an abysmal circumstance of hierarchy. This essay will consider the boundaries and borders that occur in the evolving discourse of robots and slaves.
Gregory Hampton holds the title of Associate Professor of African-American Literature and is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Howard University. Dr. Hampton holds a B.A. in Economics and African-American Studies from Oberlin College; an M.A. in African-American Studies from Yale University; and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Duke University. He has published articles in the English Journal, the CLAJ (College Language Association Journal), Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, Obsidian III, and Callaloo. His most recent courses have been invested in the problematic of the black body and its portrayal in both literature and film as well as literature across cultures (African, British, Native American, Caribbean, and Asian). His book Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires (Lexington Books) is the first monograph of literary criticism invested in examining the complete body of fiction produced by Octavia E. Butler. In addition to African-American speculative fiction, Hampton’s fields of interest include 19th and 20th Century American and African-American literature as well as gender studies.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6KTX5HX
on the poll, do not say YES you are going unless you are SURE you are committed to this odyssey!!!!...
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
get in the groove fast...
Posted on: Friday, January 24, 2014
after reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" hop onto the net and dig up cool stuff on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
share it... no, she was not a groovy go-go dancer!
share your findings after you 'like' your home
away from home, the robotic erotic electric
social media mothership @ facebook.com:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/English-220-Robotic-Erotic-Electric/464330593679066
remember to carefully read these two pages:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/home.html
and
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/passport.html
yours
Robot Nericcio
ps: come to london with us--it will blow your circuitboards, robots! infolist
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
all emails to the robotic erotic electric class appear here...
Posted on: Thursday, January 23, 2014
robots! I just posted a massive posting to your tumblr site that archives ALL the emails
I have sent to the class since early this year:
http://roboticeroticelectric.tumblr.com/post/74349271389/all-prior-posts-to-the-class-pre-jan-23-2014
cheers,
bill nericcio
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
update/main webpage link...
Posted on: Thursday, January 23, 2014
thx for the support today--i think our literary/robotic experiment is going to rock!
key link: http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/
bill nericcio
memo@sdsu.edu
http://textmex.blogspot.com
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
updates to the roboticeroticelectric mothership...
Posted on: Thursday, January 23, 2014
sdsuROBOTS (aka Engl 220.03 citizens) you can expect updates to this page all the time--it is YOUR responsibility
as a member of our band of literary
cyberpirates to check this page at least
three or four times a week! your smartphone
is NOT the best way to study this
page--you will likely miss something
important if you use that little technological
gem exclusively...
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html
yours,
dr. bill nericcio
ps: with 40 to 50 people trying to crash
this section it is going to be a long shot,
but if you know a friend totally into art,
cinema, theatre, literature, etc. who is
NOT a full-on slackersaurus, bring them
along today!
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
Get ahead on your work for English 220 @ SDSU...
Posted on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Get ahead on your work for English 220 @ SDSU...
Read CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN's THE YELLOW WALLPAPER before the first class on Thursday, January 23, 2014--also, cinetrekONE... screen Spike Jonze's HER
at a theatre of your choosing BEFORE January 31, 2014...
see you Thursday! if you know an artsy film, art, theatre major dying
for a won't-put-you-to-sleep class, bring them along to try to crash
the class on the 23rd!
yours,
dr. bill nericcio
memo@sdsu.edu
{especially if you are on hotmail, be sure to add
bnericci@mail.sdsu.edu and memo@sdsu.edu as
contacts--otherwise, my emails to you are likely to
end up in your spam box!}...
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
just a quick note ...
Posted on: Thursday, January 16, 2014
if you are seeing this, you are signed upfor english 220.03 @ SDSU this spring...
the day to day 'diary' for our class is
not ready for primetime--you are welcome
to look at it, but the assignments listed
there are not finalized...
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/index.html
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
note...
Posted on: Thursday, January 16, 2014
if you are signed up for my english 220 class, i added you to an online
list of present and former students
who i hit with intellectual/cultural
emails from time to time--feel free
to unsubscribe if your in-box overfloweth.
you'll hear more about this in class, but
I am hosting a summer class in london
this summer! here's some info on that
adventure--sign up for the london
info-elist here: http://tinyletter.com/londonrocks2014
more info here: http://malas.sdsu.edu/LondonRocks2014/
------------------------------------------
- Prospective Student Travelers,
- Professor Wiese, Melissa Bolthouse, and I can talk until we
are blue in the face about how special the London Rocks program
is and how amazing life in London will be.
Ultimately, however, it is our alumni who can best talk about their
unique experiences--as Nicole Best did on our London Rocks
facebook page (see it here as well as a screengrab if the FB
link is uncooperative).
Here, though, better yet, and straight from the students
themselves, are four video commentaries, filmed at our
going away reception with Professor John Makey, Summer
2012 at the Imperial College student pub:
https://vimeo.com/channels/654741
Happy New Year from SDSU London Rocks 2014!!!!
Yours,
Dr. William A. Nericcio
memo@sdsu.edu
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
english 220 social media links...
Posted on: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
English 220heads!
if this is the first email you have received, your
class syllabus lives online here:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/
the home page with the course description
and list of required works is here:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/home.html
your specific rights and responsibilities
for the class live here on your 'passport' page:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/passport.html
your day to day assignments will appear here soon:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html
Also, a quick note that you will be posting updates to the class facebook page here:
http://bit.ly/roboticeroticelectric
Be sure to 'like' that page in order to
receive key updates--folks who hate
facebook and avoid Zuckerberg's invention
like the plague can still 'see' the class updates
there as the page is public.
if facebook makes you sick, you can
make use of the class tumblr site
here: http://roboticeroticelectric.tumblr.com/
numerous class-related postings are already
live on both these sites!
yours
dr. william a. nericcio
http://malas.sdsu.edu/textmex
Posted by: William Nericcio- Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
41 students on the way to 216...
Posted on: Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sorry to interrupt your nfl or vacation pleasure--this is just a test email/announcement
for english 220 @ sdsu, spring 2014...
your syllabus (and more) lives online here:
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/
if you have friends who are unabashed, unashamed
artsies who love books, film, theatre, photography,
and art, invite them to add this section of 220!
cheers,
Dr. William A. Nericcio, aka "Bill"
http://malas.sdsu.edu/textmex
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Sunday, May 05, 2013
...Yet Another Entertaining Chapter in the Saga of the Ersatz Human
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
"Makies": Diving Headlong into the Uncanny Valley! via boingboing.net
source: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/23/makies-custom-made-3d-printe.html wikipedia on the "uncanny valley"...
"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation,which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness. The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970. The hypothesis has been linked to Ernst Jentsch's concept of "the uncanny" identified in a 1906 essay, "On the Psychology of the Uncanny."Jentsch's conception was elaborated by Sigmund Freud in a 1919 essay entitled "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche")...Mori's original hypothesis states that as the appearance of a robot is made more human, a human observer's emotional response to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong revulsion. However, as the robot's appearance continues to become less distinguishable from that of a human being, the emotional response becomes positive once more and approaches human-to-human empathy levels. This area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a "barely human" and "fully human" entity is called the uncanny valley. The name captures the idea that an almost human-looking robot will seem overly "strange" to a human being, will produce a feeling of uncanniness, and will thus fail to evoke the empathic response required for productive human-robot interaction."
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Two More Chapters in the History of the "Ersatz Human" | Body Modification Edition
We're back--after a couple of sequences where this blog was given over to various undergraduate and graduate courses I teach at SDSU, I am back to posting materials here that document recent marvels concerning the simulacrafication of the human (gracias Baudrillard), the transmogrification of human subjectivity through technology and camouflage (gracias Sarduy).
click the images for the original postings...
click the images for the original postings...
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 09, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
CYBERHIVE: Durex Edition
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:44:39 -0700
Subject: Re: the new blog is live...: MALAS600B-01-Fall2011
From: Heriberto Vasquez
To: William Nericcio <bnericci
I would like to share this commercial on the blog.... and I will be sharing in class a quick scene from the play "In the next room: The vibrator play" it was performed at the Lyceum theatre last semester but sadly enough I couldn't get any vids from that exquisit performance.
until class!
eddie
Subject: Re: the new blog is live...: MALAS600B-01-Fall2011
From: Heriberto Vasquez
To: William Nericcio <bnericci
I would like to share this commercial on the blog.... and I will be sharing in class a quick scene from the play "In the next room: The vibrator play" it was performed at the Lyceum theatre last semester but sadly enough I couldn't get any vids from that exquisit performance.
until class!
eddie
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