I found this week’s lecture to be very heavy but in a good way. I had always known about colonization, but I had always thought of it in the land and statehood sense. It didn’t occur to be that ideas, standards, and identity could be colonized as well. With that…

I particularly enjoyed playing the Polak game in class. While I understand that the point of the game was to introduce us to the lecture on Ethics, I found it an illuminating way to get to know my classmates more. I got a sense of who is optimistic or pessimistic…

There was an award at my high school called the “Subject Excellence” award in which the student with the highest GPA in the grade year for that subject gets an award. I never got it for science or math; I was never great at those things. However, I got the…

Looking back on the movies I have seen in the past, I had never noticed the plethora of female cyborgs. Whether it was Ava from Ex Machina or the Hosts from Westworld, the media likes to depict female cyborgs as otherworldly and without real agency. I laugh thinking about it…

I remember back in 2019 there was a craze of cleaning out your house. Originated from Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizational expert, she wrote a book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. In the book, she advocates that your home reflects your state of mind and that by holding…

I found Then & Now, Bourdieu: Cultural Capital, the Love of Art & Hip Hop to be the most fascinating piece of media from last week’s assignment. …

This week’s subject of the social construction of technology and media archeology has been the most interesting to me so far. Rathna Ramanathan’s From Vishnu to Vegas is hands down my favorite reading from this semester so far. I found the article to be fascinating and really shed light on…

This week’s readings and lecture concerning cybernetics and computational creativity. Paul Pangaro defines cybernetics as the act of self-steering. It is a combination of trying, acting, sensing, and changing that allows systems to work towards a goal. He declares that all intelligent systems have this ability. This week’s topic reminds…

We live in a world of symbols. From traffic lights, toilet signs, and the alphabet, humans function through giving things meaning. In a way, I think it’s due to the fact that humans need to simplify things to make sense of the world, else there is just too much stuff…