If you couldn’t make it to the 2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, you can watch videos of all of the presentations including Samuel R. Delany’s keynote address here.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

C O L L O Q U I U M

PRESENTS

A Cultural History of Digital Technology: Humanities Perspectives

MONDAY DECEMBER 18, 2017, 1:00- 5:00PM

VOORHEES THEATER, 186 JAY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY

JULIET FLOYD PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY

SCOTT HARTLEY AUTHOR – THE FUZZIE AND THE TECHIE: HOW THE LIBERAL ARTS WILL RULE THE DIGITAL WORLD, AND VENTURE CAPITALIST

TONY HEY AUTHOR – THE COMPUTING UNIVERSE: JOURNEY THROUGH A REVOLUTION, AND CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST AT THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK

STEPHEN WOLFRAM AUTHOR – A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE, PRESIDENT/FOUNDER OF WOLFRAM MATHEMATICA |WOLFRAM ALPHA

FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL:

aleonhardt@citytech.cuny.edu

REGISTER NOW: http://www.nycctfab.com/neh-cultural-history

Register to attend and write about the presentations that you visit. In at least 250 words, tell me who you heard speaking and what you learned.

As you all know, Wednesday, December 6 will be a long day for me due to the 2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium. In case my voice or my energy (or both) are done before our class begins, let’s flip our class and present the lecture beforehand (embedded below). Perhaps appropriately, I let my computer read it to you. Check Google, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, and the Encyclopedia of SF for spellings and details that you might miss. During class, we can discuss the reading, watch “Kill Switch,” and hand out the take-home final exam. After class, remember to write your final 250-word summary on William Gibson and cyberpunk.

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing your readings and the lecture notes on Le Guin, Butler, and Afrofuturism.

Combine last week’s and this week’s classes into a summary of the Star Trek viewing and the readings by Samuel R. Delany and James Tiptree, Jr. We’re crossing over from the New Wave into Feminist SF this week, too, which should be noted in your summaries.

View the program here.

After today’s class, write at least 250 words summarizing the readings by Harlan Ellison and Philip K. Dick, and the lecture on New Wave SF.

Write and post a comment on this blog post of at least 250-words summarizing today’s lecture on science fiction film and our viewing of Forbidden Planet.

The take home midterm was returned during class today.

Remember to keep up with your after class writing, but if you need to turn in an assignment late, please email Prof. Ellis to give him a heads-up. If you are unsure which posts you have commented on, mouse over the title in the gray bar at the top of the page: ENG2420 E255 Science Fiction, FA2017 > click on Dashboard > click on Comments > use the search box to look for your name.

UPDATE: Want to own the Robby the Robot costume? It’s being auctioned off here.

After class, post a comment summarizing your readings and today’s lecture. This should be at least 250 words. Of course, more words are better!

For Heinlein’s “–All You Zombies”

For Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hhnnZzVXM

For today’s after class summary, write at least 250 words summarizing our lecture on Golden Age SF and your readings of Asimov’s “Reason” and Bradbury’s “The Fireman.” Copy-and-paste your summary into a comment made to this blog post. If you’re needing to catch up on a past after class writing assignment, please get it posted and email me to let me know that you’ve turned it in.