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A group for SUNY Geneseo students interested in American Studies. Group avatar adapted from “Spatial Possibilities and Interdictions” by Mingxiu Lin on Flickr. Creative Commons CC-BY 2.0.

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Kai Owen Pangelinan Larnard edited the blog post Realization after AI and Octavia Butler in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

Realization after AI and Octavia Butler Over the course of this semester, after diving into AI and the Xenogenesis Trilogy, I’ve noticed that my thoughts on the matter, wh […]
Jordan Wilson wrote a new blog post Butler and AI in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

Butler and AIAfter reading Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, my opinions regarding AI have not changed drastically. The Oankali in Butler’s nov […]
Emily Sneider wrote a new blog post The Importance of Connection & Consent in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy and Artificial Intelligence in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

The Importance of Connection & Consent in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy and Artificial IntelligenceWhen I first registered for the class “Literature: Octavia Butler & AI,” I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Obviously, we’d be discuss […]
Victoria Slade wrote a new blog post A Continuing Fear of the Implications of Both AI and Butler’s Writing in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

A Continuing Fear of the Implications of Both AI and Butler’s WritingOver the semester, I have gained a vast amount of knowledge regarding this new world of AI through the world of Octavia Butler’s X […]
Abigail Cornelius wrote a new blog post The Art of Slightly Changing Your Mind in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

The Art of Slightly Changing Your MindAt the start of the semester, we were asked to write two papers, one on what we found inspiring, encouraging, hopeful in what we have […]
Hailey Bilby wrote a new blog post What Does the Future of AI Look Like in Relation to Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy? in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

What Does the Future of AI Look Like in Relation to Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy?One of the things that our course epigraph reminds us when thinking about AI is that there are positives and negatives associated with […]
Kristina Neos wrote a new blog post Learning from Aliens and Algorithms in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

Learning from Aliens and AlgorithmsKristina Neos The exploration of Artificial Intelligence and The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butlerhas driven me to think about […]
Robert A LaDuca edited the blog post The Illuminations of Artificial Intelligence Through Literature in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

The Illuminations of Artificial Intelligence Through LiteratureOctavia Butler – renowned science-fiction writer, Afrofuturist, and visionary demonstrates incredible proficiency in using literature t […]
Naod Daniel wrote a new blog post Butler Inspire Ai Trouble Essay in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

Butler Inspire Ai Trouble EssayWhen looking back earlier in the semester and comparing the beginning of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy to artificial i […]
Magdalene Kennell wrote a new blog post The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in the group American Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the SameAfter this semester-long journey to understand Octavia Butler’s imagined world in the Xenogenesis Trilogy and the landscape artificial i […]

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