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Sunday, September 04, 2011

CYBERHIVE 21: Technosexualities | eyeBORG on BoingBoing.net...

Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: allicia Martinez
Subject: Cyborgs and Transhumanism
To: "memo@sdsu.edu"

Professor Nericcio,

Here is a video on the future of prosthetics, and advancements in cyborg technology.

Allicia Martinez

click for the boingboing article...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

"Progress" Voyeur BARBIE-style

Monday, March 02, 2009

New Ethnic Mannequins from Old Navy!

Readers of my Ethnic Mannequins/Obscene Machine Graduate Seminar blog are well aquainted with my fetish when it comes to the ersatz human--so look what comes in with the newspaper this weekend, a Spanish-language circular for Old Navy featuring, literally, ethnic, "Mexican" mannequins. More on this in Eyegiene.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Eye Allegories

I teach a remarkable animated short film from time to time entitled An Eye for Annai by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues--those of you digging the semiotic/film theory dimension of this class will find it moving I think.

Here's another peculiar short film that theatricalize's some of the more theoretical elements of our graduate and undergraduate seminars in an accessible, if allegorical fashion.

Both owe their debt, to a greater or lesser degree, the the surrealist shenanigans of Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel in Un Chien Andalou:

History of the Obscene Machine Cyberhive...

The Obscene Machine is an ever-evolving "ARTkive" chronicling cultural studies advancements in something I call the "ersatz human"--broadly understood, it is a series of links to stories that document the history of human self-fashioning, from ancient "primitive" totems and fetiches, to contemporary digital avatars and dolls.

In other times, this blog has served as a community exchange vehicle for my students at San Diego State University. In Fall 2011, The Obscene Machine was a cultural studies seminar at San Diego State University entitled TECHNOSEXUALITIES--the course is led by head cyborg Professor William A. Nericcio. Previously, it was the host cyberHIVE for a Spring 2011 undergraduate English 220 seminar: Robotic, Erotic, Electric: Televisual Nightmares, Seductive Hallucinations, and Naked Pscyhes in Literature, Film, Art, and the Web.

Know, also, that this blog had earlier incarnations and aspirations: The Obscene Machine began its life as 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 were directed in the Spring of 2007 by the aforementioned Dr. Nericcio and the posts associated with those two classes remain online here as an ersatz gallery and a living memorial.

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 Tex[t]-Mex (UT Press, 2007) book and precursors to Eyegiene.

The Robot Running this Site...

William Anthony Nericcio is the Director of MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences at San Diego State University. When not shepherding brilliant graduate student devotees of cultural studies, Nericcio also hangs his hat as a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chicana/o Studies, and serves on the faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies. Utterly more than is necessary to know can be found in his perplexing, image-laced online autobiography and a complete digital index of his web-based shenanigans is located here. Lastly, can also see a graphic design portfolio by Guillermo Nericcio García, his, er, 'cousin,' at memogr@phics designcasa.