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Public Group active 1 year, 3 months agoA 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 agoRealization 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 […]
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Jordan Wilson wrote a new blog post Butler and AI in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoButler and AIAfter reading Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, my opinions regarding AI have not changed drastically. The Oankali in Butler’s nov […]
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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 agoThe 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 […]
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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 agoA 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 […]
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Abigail Cornelius wrote a new blog post The Art of Slightly Changing Your Mind in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoThe 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 […]
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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 agoWhat 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 […]
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Kristina Neos wrote a new blog post Learning from Aliens and Algorithms in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoLearning from Aliens and AlgorithmsKristina Neos The exploration of Artificial Intelligence and The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butlerhas driven me to think about […]
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Robert A LaDuca edited the blog post The Illuminations of Artificial Intelligence Through Literature in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoThe Illuminations of Artificial Intelligence Through LiteratureOctavia Butler – renowned science-fiction writer, Afrofuturist, and visionary demonstrates incredible proficiency in using literature t […]
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Naod Daniel wrote a new blog post Butler Inspire Ai Trouble Essay in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 3 months agoButler Inspire Ai Trouble EssayWhen looking back earlier in the semester and comparing the beginning of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy to artificial i […]
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Magdalene Kennell wrote a new blog post The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoThe 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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Madelyn Perry edited the blog post Akin, Jodahs, Dr. Joy, and You: Cross-Universal Artists of Resistance in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoAkin, Jodahs, Dr. Joy, and You: Cross-Universal Artists of Resistance One of the initial points of discomfort or trouble with Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy is in the perceived co […]
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Ephesia Harris wrote a new blog post The Quiet Rearranging of Trust in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoThe Quiet Rearranging of TrustAt the beginning of the semester, I approached AI with a neutral perspective. I wasn’t particularly emotionally invested, but I was a […]
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Nia Jones wrote a new blog post Were We Right About The Oankali?: A Reflection on the Xenogenesis Trilogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoWere We Right About The Oankali?: A Reflection on the Xenogenesis Trilogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI)When thinking about what I was going to write about for my final reflection on the Xenogenesis trilogy, I had no idea what to write […]
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Amber Ellis edited the blog post Two Sides of the Same Coin in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoTwo Sides of the Same CoinDuring the course of ENGL 439, Octavia Butler & Artificial Intelligence (AI), I’ve been given the opportunity to deeply think about h […]
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Claire Lustig wrote a new blog post Whiplash in the group
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Allison Tuifel wrote a new blog post The Chaos of Uncertainy in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoThe Chaos of UncertainyIt took me a whole semester and the full study of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, along with our learnings on artificial […]
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Josephine Hastings wrote a new blog post Nothing Is Ever Truly Correct: Reframing AI, Consent, and Human Struggle in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoNothing Is Ever Truly Correct: Reframing AI, Consent, and Human StruggleNothing is ever truly correct; it is only statistically probable. The length of a ruler changes depending on what you use to measure it. […]
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Marisa Greaney wrote a new blog post Thinking About Growth in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoThinking About GrowthDuring the process of reading and comprehending Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, there had been encounters with both ‘aha’ moments as well […]
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Lainelle Brazee wrote a new blog post The Professional Rescuers Handbook- Saving Humans from Themselves in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoThe Professional Rescuers Handbook- Saving Humans from Themselves According to the American Red Cross (ARC), as a professional rescuer, if a person (victim) is “unresponsive, has an altered mental s […]
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Marie Naudus wrote a new blog post Oankali As Special Education Teachers? in the group
American Studies: 1 year, 4 months agoOankali As Special Education Teachers?For this blog post, my aim is to logically weave together both my AI Inspire and Butler Trouble papers while responding to feedback and […]
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