the plains, still, redivivus myth
‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate
Langston Hughes’ Bebop and Postwar Harlem
Vyry’s Song: Remembering as an Uncontested Place
Exercising Memory as Narrative Technique in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Kevin as a Postmodern Literary Captive in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Disentangling “Mammy”: Negating Identity in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family
Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz
Folk Aesthetics and the Spirituals in Southern Road
When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice (Notes and rough drafts)
Other posts
First Contact: Will They or Won’t They Commingle Science and Ontology?
A Poem Recited by God as Best as I Could Understand Her
Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy
Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism
Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today
Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights
Poems, Poetry, Poetics
Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
Trauma and Post-Modern Subtext in Star Trek
Towards a Revisioning of the Courts: A Short Theory
Angry With The Waters (long, epic poem)
Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V
Possible Model for Alternative Futurism: Responsibility to Leave (R2L)
God is Coming for Me Soon: My Ongoing, Complex, Relationship with Progressive Theology
The First Steps to Reaching a SciFi-Like Utopia From Where the Western World is Right Now
Solarpunk and the Vestiges of the Ascetic
Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Xenophobia, Communication, and Our Dissuading First Contact
First Contact and the Theory of Monetized Empathy
When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice (Notes and rough drafts)
The United Traits of Bajoran and Cardassian Resistance
Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait
When the Sky is Beautiful Again, Always
Masculinarity as a Possible Universal Trait
Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution
On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism
Cylon Number Six as Savior of the Twelve Colonies
Space Strategist and Ethicist: First Contact Strategy and Ethics
The Possibility of a Ferengi Future
Capitalism and Violence-Customs
Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning” – Dr. Federico Savini
Identity and Captain Louanne “Kat” Katraine
Reception for an occasional prohibitive competitor
The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”
Criminal Apples Listening to Songs From The Capeman
“Extreme Risk” and “Invasive Procedures” as Symbols of Capitalist Internalization
In the County Villages of 1960s Seismology
Václav Havel’s Spirit Visited Me
Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)
Eddington is Right When He States that Utopia Requires Assimilation
Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations
Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko
Erasure of Solitary Meals and Gas Pipes
The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority
Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” and Voyager’s “Nothing Human”
Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi
Who Watches the Watchers Watching; without Watching?
From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
The incoming, new major women’s movement, as holy as it is
When the Kids Have Stopped Working
Diastole Consumption on Rockmary Leaves
** No One Buys Books, by Elle Griffin
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