Big Jelly

Writing used to be a chore. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still challenging, but it’s like anything else worth doing: you must practice in order to develop, hone, and maintain your edge. I’ve been doing pretty well lately keeping up with my practice. I set myself a challenge of writing at least 750 words a [...]

Twisting and turning / Your feelings are burning / You’re breaking the girl / She meant you no harm / Think you’re so clever / But now you must sever / You’re breaking the girl —The Red Hot Chili Peppers In his Metamorphoses, Ovid is concerned with, among other things, images of woman and the [...]

The figure of the cyborg helps us see more specifically whether other central stories of our age are accurate or useful. Many of these stories are ancient, about gender and power, life love and death. But others, entwined with them, are themselves cyborg myths, attempts to understand the broader implications of human/machine co-evolution which . [...]

“The first thing you picked up from us was that Hitler broadcast. Why did you make contact?” “The picture, of course, was alarming. We could tell you were in deep trouble. But the music told us something else. The Beethoven told us there was hope.” (Contact 359) Throughout his life, the great Renaissance artist and [...]