English @ SUNY Geneseo | Alex Calderon | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ac34/activity/ Activity feed for Alex Calderon. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5613c112ba473588b8e11ff9f644e1d1 Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=689 Tue, 12 May 2015 02:52:17 -0500 While thinking about reflections about English 458 I pondered about Butler’s identity a lot. Octavia Butler is a black, female, Sci-Fi writer, which all together creates a unique prose within her writing. […]

]]> 6e697a0075b73e9e8a0b278e257e9db2 Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=530 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:37:35 -0500 While reading Butler’s short story Amnesty I kept seeing conflicts with experimenting on the human body and consent. Noah the protagonist of the story is kidnapped and experimented by aliens. Noah discusses the […]

]]> 074f471061918a14260c3955f5326a4d Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=445 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:34:50 -0500 Reading the afterword in Bloodchild made me evaluate all the interpretations that lie within the short story. Butler discusses the three levels of her story which are love, coming of age, and being a pregnant man. […]

]]> ee352846675473b25646d7501b8a690a Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=387 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 05:25:04 -0500 As I was reading Madhu Dubey’s “Octavia Butler’s Novels of Enslavement” article I started to think about our own society. The article discusses chattel slavery in comparison to Butler’s plot in her Pattern […]

]]> c08dc3573f847b8c73b040ee00712e58 Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=320 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:25:24 -0500 As we discussed Clay’s Ark in class yesterday I kept thinking about similar plots structures. This led me to look up films about viral outbreaks. Most outbreak films such as Contagion often portray people dying of […]

]]> 52c0bfce150e9ec689c778bcc1693f86 Alex Calderon commented on the post, Mine To Protect?, on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/20/mine-to-protect/#comment-270 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:42:56 -0500 Your notion of categories of property in human interactions is very interesting. While reading your article it reminded of intellectual property. Intellectual property is referred to creations made in one’s head. […]

]]> 47c65b2b1923782adf851eeed1941f7c Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=266 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:55:48 -0500 The ending of Mind of My Mind was epic. Doro is finally killed in a battle with Mary. We assume Doro has the upper hand, but soon we realized that his imminent downfall has come. Not only have Doro’s fears of Mary […]

]]> 593081b7ccd96097d9062845ece5e70a Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=179 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 23:05:45 -0500 One of the questions Locke discusses in Second Treatise of Government is “how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing,” which brought my attention to Butler’s notions of property within Fledgling. […]

]]> ee19251db61bf8619f86935f4e5ad678 Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=100 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 01:29:54 -0500 While I read some of the questions asked in Conversations with Octavia Butler. One question that piqued my interest was on defining Fledging as a genre. The Interviewer asked this to Butler:” I’ve seen Fledgling […]

]]> a93ea3852145ef2da6d35343647900b2 Alex Calderon commented on the post, Butler Bites, on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/01/31/butler-bites/#comment-6 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:09:56 -0500 I definitely agree with your point one could interpret Fledging as a slave narrative. Within Fledging you see of how Shori is slowly rebuilding her life, and finding her memories. This could be seen as Shori […]

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