Countdown to CONvergence 2014
Countdown to CONvergence 2014! Are you excited? Continue reading Countdown to CONvergence 2014
Category: On Being Human
On Being Human @ On Wisconsin Magazine
On Being Human, by Karl Wolff, gets a profile in On Wisconsin Magazine, the alumni magazine for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Continue reading On Being Human @ On Wisconsin Magazine
On Being Human Redux: Crossover (Cassandra Kresnov, Book One), by Joel Shepherd
I revisit the question, “What does it mean to be human?” with On Being Human Redux, looking at Joel Shepherd’s cerebral actioner, “Crossover,” introducing us to synethetic human Cassandra Kresnov. Continue reading On Being Human Redux: Crossover (Cassandra Kresnov, Book One), by Joel Shepherd
On Being Human Redux: Further looks at books and movies that examine the question of humanity
On Being Human Redux is an essay series that looks at serial killers, clones, the Culture series, a Beckett play, bunnies in Beatrix Potter and Richard Adams, and adroids. Continue reading On Being Human Redux: Further looks at books and movies that examine the question of humanity
Driftless Area Review Metapost
A general update on the business of the Driftless Area Review blog. Continue reading Driftless Area Review Metapost
CCLaP Journal #1 is here!
Issue #1 of CCLaP’s new monthly magazine is finally here! Click through for all the details, lots of screenshots, and a chance to download it for free. Continue reading CCLaP Journal #1 is here!
On Being Human: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicholas Roeg)
Today at CCLaP: In his last essay for On Being Human, Karl Wolff looks at ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth,’ Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi art-house masterpiece. Continue reading On Being Human: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicholas Roeg)
On Being Human: Nekropolis, by Maureen McHugh
This week for my penultimate entry in the On Being Human series I examine “Nekropolis” by Maureen McHugh, a novel about an artificial being called a harni and Hariba, a woman who has been “jessed” into subservience. Continue reading On Being Human: Nekropolis, by Maureen McHugh
CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: The Trilogy, by Samuel Beckett
This week in the CCLaP series “On Being Human,” Karl Wolff analyses Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking “Trilogy,” where the famed avant-garde writer sought the essence of what it is to be human by stripping away the setting, plot, and characters of three small novels in a row. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: The Trilogy, by Samuel Beckett
CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Today in CCLaP’s “On Being Human,” Karl Wolff’s look at humanity as explained through various famous pieces of pop culture: It’s Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s infamous “Venus in Furs,” the 1870 book that inspired the sexual term ‘masochism.’ Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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