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Stuff Going On

Stuff Going On

by grlucas on 13. Jan, 2009 in Cuisine, Teaching

Well, we’re off.
Yes, another semester has started with a bang. I have finally finished my course prep and posted my last syllabus online for a class that begins tonight. I even have my second session course’s syllabus finished. It’s an interesting semester: I didn’t get my usual New Media senior seminar, but I also didn’t [...]

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South Again

by grlucas on 23. Mar, 2004 in Academia, Literature, Motorcycle, Notes, Travel

Today, despite the cool weather, I donned my new jacket and, once again, headed south. My destination: the 25th annual conference for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Walter, Tom, and I are to give a panel on Lem’s Solaris at the conference in Ft. Lauderdale, and I decided that I needed [...]

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Lem’s Solaris: Critique of Human Progress

by grlucas on 27. Jan, 2004 in Film, Literature, Scholarship

According to Muntius, Solaristics is the space era’s equivalent of religion: faith disguised as science. . . . Solaristics is a revival of long-vanished myths, the expression of mythical nostalgias which men are unwilling to confess openly. The cornerstone is deeply entrenched in the foundations of the edifice: it is the hope of Redemption. (Lem [...]

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We Want Mirrors

by grlucas on 24. Jan, 2004 in Film, Literature, Scholarship

I watched Soderbergh’s Solaris again last night to try and get this paper going. I was again captivated by the visuals that seemed to pay homage to Tarkovsky’s love of flow. If Tarkovsky had had access to the latest in CG technology, would he have used it? I also noticed other parallels to the Tarkovsky, [...]

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