English @ SUNY Geneseo | Xavier Bodensieck | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/xeb1/activity/ Activity feed for Xavier Bodensieck. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 933cf7d8a7cefc93578f48fc226715a5 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Final Reflection Essay in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11567/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:50:46 -0500 There is a call for change, if not revolution, that is more powerful and cacophonous than anything my generations has heard so far. Annihilation mounts in a slow violence against humans. The real issue though is […]

]]> 0 3f0e7e79b8a1dc3aa55a2d4a03b794a5 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post The Stillness Free From Chaos in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11325/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:02:26 -0500 While thinking about this final blog post I began to ask myself the progressive thinkING question of what does it matter that we’ve been doing this? There’s a right answer to that question, but what I found to be […]

]]> 0 ffa3692f6cd43c45427b66fc67900e81 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Geologic Time Scales and Goosebumps in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11209/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:10:18 -0500 One of the most impressive qualities that I read the Stillness’ humans to have was their consideration of time and legacy in their decision making. After all, the Sanzed Empire was only able to maintain its p […]

]]> 0 23e42965a18a07fb2f52ea45d7f4a220 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post What children learn from colonizing Mars is the same thing we learn from comm organization in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11205/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:49:52 -0500 A year and a half ago I was a teacher-counselor for a summer camp that SUNY Geneseo hosts for Rochester City School District. That iteration of the camp was themed around Mars colonization and asked students to […]

]]> 0 39b2a90835024f71a36d758fd9d6c3d1 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Young orogenes as child soldiers in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11169/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 21:44:59 -0500 N. K. Jemisin first introduced us to the horror of the node-maintainers’ existence in The Fifth Season with their presence serving as a representation of institutional oppression and a public dependency on that o […]

]]> 0 c3052f2d0372f616346a42cadfdf584b Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post ACEs in the Stillness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11024/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:17:18 -0500 The main intersection for our class is between English and the sciences as we take up the familiar cause of creating an integrative experience in education. Geology fits itself into Jemisin’ writing in many ways b […]

]]> 0 7a35b7865fca231e62f70109702c5448 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Adjusting thoughts on Jemisin's humans in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10984/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:29:58 -0500 I had made a previous post about the alternate biology that Jemisin writes about. At that time I was still unaware of the existence of magic or magical essence as well as poorly stating that I was assuming that […]

]]> 0 bfdda64f1a73e81a36f0456011241ff3 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post In Response to Civil & Uncivil Disobedience in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10949/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:29:04 -0500 I write this in response to Michee Jacobs’ post about civil disobedience. I was initially drawn in by the mention of Henry David Thoreau and my own knowledge that his name is likely to follow any literary c […]

]]> 0 d02e341847fe0f2a57fc59156698b736 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Geology Fiction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10921/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:04:38 -0500 Astronomy, physics and biology dominate the genre of science fiction. N. K. Jemisin has now added geology to the list with the Fifth Season and the other books in the trilogy. In terms of media, science fiction […]

]]> 0 cd95538c6c8d8ee105c3c5336852fdd9 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Jemisin and alternate biology in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10920/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:58:30 -0500 In the world of the Fifth Season orogenes are about as close to wizards and witches as you can get. Popular culture might also liken them to the earth benders of the Avater: The Last Airbender television series. […]

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