English @ SUNY Geneseo | Sean McAneny | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mcanenysean/activity/ Activity feed for Sean McAneny. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 58c2f0efed5cbc51f19623369a070a4a Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Data-Mining Walden: Tools for Literary Analysis in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12867/ Wed, 15 May 2019 01:51:46 -0500 Henry David Thoreau had a fraught relationship with technology. As we discussed in our presentation, it is difficult to tell whether he would be on board with our digital projects regarding his work. What we can […]

]]> 0 bfd6a9e73831e253d7ff49dd072b81f3 Sean McAneny edited the blog post Reflecting on the Semester with Lucille Clifton in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12858/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:25:33 -0500 surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
surely  […]

]]> 0 21237ef66b52ee0dcf41d0d2aad8212f Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Big Machine, Intertext and Allegory in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12741/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:31:01 -0500 In class on Friday, 4/26, our group put Big Machine in conversation with a few other texts that we had encountered earlier this semester, as well as a few others from outside the class. In addition to The Last An […]

]]> 0 1b2ea0d5bd7491eb91b38b3aa423f65e Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Sydney Smith and "Who Reads an American Book": Some Remaining Questions in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12653/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:19:26 -0500 “The Americans are a brave, industrious, and acute people; but they have hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or character….Where are their […]

]]> 0 a5e6cf4f6fea3cec6ee835eb989f67f4 Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Some Additional Thoughts on Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Study in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12611/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 03:26:47 -0500 Upon registering for classes last fall, I made the decision to venture outside of my major, English, and take a few classes in the sciences. I wanted to try out a different way of thinking, one that I hadn’t […]

]]> 0 8e3677fa70c2556cfc31cd6906e65513 Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Democracy and Digitization in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12571/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 01:26:56 -0500 Like the human brain or the deepest parts of the ocean, the potential for discovery in the digital age seems boundless, especially to someone new to computing like me. Literature and Literary Study in the Digital […]

]]> 0 ddcc8ba9e21d53674c1ddf300dee5e21 Sean McAneny edited the blog post A Semiotic Reading of a Courthouse in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12542/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:57:35 -0500 Two weeks ago, I traveled to St. Louis with six other English students and Dr. Paku to present a paper at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. During the last day of our visit we went to a courthouse that […]

]]> 0 d33d65f9ab1fdc07bcb6cd01bb265cb1 Sean McAneny edited the blog post Light and Shadows, Dope and Paint, Sociology and Art in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12463/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:12:15 -0500 When we speak of a “diamond in the rough,” are we being ironic? For when we say this do we not ignore the dark and organic geologic history of the shiny diamond’s formation? A diamond comes from the rough; it is […]

]]> 0 a5cb7ac0ca4a6df663e8f65f73b3d72d Sean McAneny edited the blog post On Favorites and Doing What You Love in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12427/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:56:38 -0500 Upon its first consideration, the task of choosing a favorite poem from Angles of Ascent seemed difficult, if not daunting. Beyond the difficulty of pinning down one poem in anthology of hundreds, this a […]

]]> 0 d92997fb28852fe41c07f60337346249 Sean McAneny edited the blog post "Call and Response" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12380/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:48:01 -0500 Call and Response, our massive anthology, sets up texts of African American traditions in such a way that pieces begin to function as questions and answers to each other. This clever formation allows for […]

]]> 0 fa484d59ccd434401a194437d95ce5eb Sean McAneny edited the blog post "Now hear this mixture, where hip-hop meets scripture" Bringing Lauryn Hill to Dunbar, Douglass, and Jacobs in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12355/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:50:28 -0500 “The songs are a way to get to singing” –Bernice Johnson Reagon

On Monday, Paul Laurence Dunbar allowed us to engage with an homage to his poem, “We Wear the Mask:” the Fugees song, “The Mask.” This […]

]]> 0 ef73a7b49aaa6d294a8e95f07cd150f7 Sean McAneny started the topic Group 5 Discussion Question 2/27 in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-5-discussion-question-2-27/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:00:52 -0500 We feel flooded with information and anxious about its totalizing power. Despite the toxicity of some social media platforms, many of us continue to use them because of a fear of missing out. Is our feeling unique to this moment in the digital age, or have previous generations felt the same about mechanisms like telegraph, telephone, or even the…[Read more]

]]> de40b613dda36c1d1c93514745e98d98 Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Thinking and Living with Computers: Making a Digital Humanist in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12291/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:53:25 -0500 I can remember a time when I believed computer science and the humanities represented what Stephen Jay Gould would call non-overlapping magesterium. In other words, the two fields emerged from completely different […]

]]> 0 86172808fb4dc291e9c53c5c367f5010 Sean McAneny edited the blog post Waves, Bits, Memes, and Goals for the Semester in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12214/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:54:30 -0500 “Black literature is taught is sociology, as tolerance, not a serious, rigorous art form.” – Toni Morrison.
Without presupposing her intentions for this statement, I would like to think of the tone of this […]

]]> 0 ed35b8f7937ccbaf955d4118072aec9b Sean McAneny joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12005/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:45:07 -0500 0 f5b6fd4dfc67d822c5c00e6b87dda407 Sean McAneny edited the blog post The Art of Reflection through "Bloodchild" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9212/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 22:45:29 -0500 Knowing that the end was near, I tried today to make sense of this semester’s work in what I think was the most effective way. I reread “Bloodchild.” I have heard it echoed across the blog and in the classroom that in order to make sense of what we were doing at any point, there always seemed to be value in recalling “Bloodchild.” So, I began to…[Read more]

]]> 0 a984195e9a1f53b4ee5dc4d91a1ac411 Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Revisiting Contract Theory, Possession, and Democracy in Class in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9084/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:20:33 -0500 Today’s (11/27) class was tough. I had this sense that there were twenty-seven different visions of our final project and the necessity of creating just one vision out of those twenty-seven troubled me. We saw […]

]]> 0 c22df05dd3e4aca9e7821f1fb217d6d8 Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Freudian Revisionism, Human-Oankali Relationships, and the Role of Stigmergy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8920/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:39:37 -0500 In this post, I would like to address the question of Freud’s survival as well as the dynamics of ingroup and outgroup relations in Dawn as they both can be understood as examples of stigmergy. Here is an a […]

]]> 0 6b68f72434305a03c88a2a567a8e5684 Sean McAneny edited the blog post Negation and Identity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8783/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:17:59 -0500 The growing anticipation surrounding Ta Nehisi Coates’s new book, We Were Eight Years in Power, prompted me to go back and read his essay from The Atlantic “The First White President,” a selection from the book about the ways in which Donald Trump used his whiteness to reach the presidency. Coates’s main argument is that Trump’s rise to power had…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2ec03482b6a8d21806020fb6723bb3f Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post "What's in a Name?" Categorization in Butler's Fiction and Romeo+Juliet in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8549/ Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:44:30 -0500 In an interview with Randall Kenan, Octavia Butler spends a great deal of time resisting the labels Kenan presents to her. Immediately, she is contrary to the idea that her writing might be “speculative fiction” […]

]]> 0 db5bb9700a74e44cb1438ddf8ff24311 Sean McAneny joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8434/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:11:31 -0500 0 021ed14f81da4620916d39b988f55e41 Sean McAneny became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8397/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:01:06 -0500 0