Okay just finished submitting paper #2 of the semester, a cultural studies paper exploring the reality effect of the Oprah show. This follows on the heels of the political economy paper I finished this weekend, analyzing the political economy of Second Life.
That leaves me one more paper to go. I have to write a proposal by Saturday then a paper by January 3rd. Yep, you read that right... I'll be writing over the holidays *sigh*.
But that last paper should be quite fun. I'm arguing that the code of digital worlds like Second Life has its own agency and is implicated in a power struggle over the colonizing humans. I'll be using Latour, Deleuze (via a few texts, most notably Delanda), Virilio, Heidegger [pdf], Kroker and Bhabha. Because it is a philosophy paper, it doesn't need to be extensively researched and cited. The idea is more to tease out possible meanings and interpretations using things we've read in this class (TechnoPolitics). So that means I get to do a lot of slightly flowery stream of digital consciousness style writing, aping Kroker and Adorno somewhat. Should be fun, in a truly geeky way.
If only I didn't have to to it over the holidays though.
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