I hate first posts. I'm the kind of person who collects pretty notebooks and then can't bear to write in them because my words, thoughts, ideas, me, in short, are just unworthy. So let's try to buck that trend with a basic intro post that will hopefully soon be buried under actually interesting content.
What you will find on this blog, o nonexistent reader:
Cyberculture, through a variety of lenses. I am starting this blog to help pace me through my sabbatical project, to have some sort of external accountability, with the impetus that I can't just jot incoherent phrases, but have to try and make my thoughts connect up with something coherently, for you, the fake audience. I'm interested in cyborg theory, robots, fandom, science fiction, fan culture, and the ways they intersect.
I became interested in robots at an early age--not in terms of engineering, but in the idea of the mechanical being, and how a robot with a personality (like Optimus Prime) kind of commented on and destabilized our ideas of humanity. I also loved robots because, honestly, they are without family--they exist and have friends and relationships, but they have no complicated family lineage, no mothers or fathers or pressure to reproduce or mate or marry, things that I felt very much as negative pressure imprinted on me by the culture in which I was raised.
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