Fifth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
This document provides an excerpt from an honours research essay discussing posthumanism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and James Cameron's Avatar. It discusses how developments in areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology have created uncertainty about humanity's future as the dominant species on Earth. It also examines how Frankenstein encodes important cultural scripts about science, technology and humanity's relationship with nature. The essay argues that posthumanism offers a complex discourse for understanding these issues, without necessarily implying humanity's absence or replacement. It suggests Mary Shelley's novel, through the creature's narrative, engages in important early conversations about posthumanism, otherness and extending moral consideration to all lifeforms.
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film directed by the Wachowskis. It stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, who is told by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) that the world he lives in is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix" created by sentient machines to subdue the human population. The film explores themes of simulated reality and features groundbreaking visual effects like "bullet time". It was a major commercial success and helped establish Warner Brothers as a leader in big-budget science fiction filmmaking.
Lecture 15: "Who Counts as Human? Whose Lives Count as Lives?"Patrick Mooney
Fifteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Both Deus Ex (2000) and The Matrix (1999) follow protagonists that embody characteristics of Nietzsche's Übermensch concept and undergo a journey of enlightenment to rebel against oppressive systems and authorities. Both stories involve themes of controlled populations breaking free from ignorance and themes of transcending human limitations. While the designers of Deus Ex may not have intended to create a "superman fantasy," the games do allow players to explore existential questions about what it means to be human in a technological world and take responsibility for one's actions in a godless universe, in line with Nietzschean philosophy.
Paradigms: International Council of Museums (ICOM) Committee on Documentation...Tom Moritz
The document discusses raw data from sensors measuring sap flow in manzanita branches over a period of several months. The data includes time stamps, sensor readings, and other metadata recorded by a datalogger. The "native" metadata provides context about what each column represents and how the data was collected.
The document provides an analysis of the 1999 film The Matrix. It discusses the directors, writers, main stars and various scenes and themes. It analyzes the conversation between Morpheus and Agent Smith and the battle between humans and machines. It also discusses Neo's powers and his efforts to save Morpheus. Overall, the document conducts semiotic, textual, ideological and industrial analyses of The Matrix relating to its symbols, characters, messages and production.
The document discusses the audience analysis for the 1999 film The Matrix. It analyzes the target demographic, which was mainly men ages 16-45 of various ethnicities from middle to working class backgrounds. Psychographically, it would appeal most to reformers, succeeders, and explorers due to themes of freedom, control, and adventure. While initially marketed to a niche audience, the film had mainstream success because the characters were relatable and engaging. The Matrix provided audiences with information, entertainment, escapism, companionship, and a sense of identity. It satisfied uses and gratifications of entertainment, escapism, and imagination. However, the document argues that the film's unique plot and relatable characters contributed more to its success than
Twenty-second (and last!) lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
This document provides an excerpt from an honours research essay discussing posthumanism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and James Cameron's Avatar. It discusses how developments in areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology have created uncertainty about humanity's future as the dominant species on Earth. It also examines how Frankenstein encodes important cultural scripts about science, technology and humanity's relationship with nature. The essay argues that posthumanism offers a complex discourse for understanding these issues, without necessarily implying humanity's absence or replacement. It suggests Mary Shelley's novel, through the creature's narrative, engages in important early conversations about posthumanism, otherness and extending moral consideration to all lifeforms.
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film directed by the Wachowskis. It stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, who is told by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) that the world he lives in is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix" created by sentient machines to subdue the human population. The film explores themes of simulated reality and features groundbreaking visual effects like "bullet time". It was a major commercial success and helped establish Warner Brothers as a leader in big-budget science fiction filmmaking.
Lecture 15: "Who Counts as Human? Whose Lives Count as Lives?"Patrick Mooney
Fifteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Both Deus Ex (2000) and The Matrix (1999) follow protagonists that embody characteristics of Nietzsche's Übermensch concept and undergo a journey of enlightenment to rebel against oppressive systems and authorities. Both stories involve themes of controlled populations breaking free from ignorance and themes of transcending human limitations. While the designers of Deus Ex may not have intended to create a "superman fantasy," the games do allow players to explore existential questions about what it means to be human in a technological world and take responsibility for one's actions in a godless universe, in line with Nietzschean philosophy.
Paradigms: International Council of Museums (ICOM) Committee on Documentation...Tom Moritz
The document discusses raw data from sensors measuring sap flow in manzanita branches over a period of several months. The data includes time stamps, sensor readings, and other metadata recorded by a datalogger. The "native" metadata provides context about what each column represents and how the data was collected.
The document provides an analysis of the 1999 film The Matrix. It discusses the directors, writers, main stars and various scenes and themes. It analyzes the conversation between Morpheus and Agent Smith and the battle between humans and machines. It also discusses Neo's powers and his efforts to save Morpheus. Overall, the document conducts semiotic, textual, ideological and industrial analyses of The Matrix relating to its symbols, characters, messages and production.
The document discusses the audience analysis for the 1999 film The Matrix. It analyzes the target demographic, which was mainly men ages 16-45 of various ethnicities from middle to working class backgrounds. Psychographically, it would appeal most to reformers, succeeders, and explorers due to themes of freedom, control, and adventure. While initially marketed to a niche audience, the film had mainstream success because the characters were relatable and engaging. The Matrix provided audiences with information, entertainment, escapism, companionship, and a sense of identity. It satisfied uses and gratifications of entertainment, escapism, and imagination. However, the document argues that the film's unique plot and relatable characters contributed more to its success than
Twenty-second (and last!) lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Eighth lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
The document summarizes key passages from the first chapter of the novel "My Son's Story" that discuss several important themes:
1) Recognition and identity as the main character encounters his father for the first time.
2) The importance of education and how it shapes the main character's views on equality and social responsibility.
3) The central role that work and community play in the characters' lives and sense of purpose.
4) The complex relational dynamics between family members and how relationships change over time.
Lecture 18 - The Turn to Speculative FictionPatrick Mooney
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Lecture 07 - Europe, Home, and Beyond (23 April 2012)Patrick Mooney
Seventh lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Lecture 12 - What's Eula Worth? (9 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Twelfth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
Lecture 21 - Palimpsest of the Departed WorldPatrick Mooney
Twenty-first lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
This document summarizes and discusses different perspectives on education presented in the readings. It discusses two methods of education - one aimed at developing general ideas and one focused on practical skills. It also examines perspectives on narrow vs broad aims for education. The document then summarizes sections from the book describing two characters' differing educational experiences - one finding his education depressing and considered obsolete, while the other attended a school for gifted students.
Oracle 12c RAC Database Software Install and Create DatabaseMonowar Mukul
The document details the steps to install Oracle 12c database software and create a Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. It shows running the root.sh script on two nodes "rac1" and "rac2" to set up the Oracle environment variables and files. The last step mentions using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) tool to create the Oracle 12c RAC database.
Twenty-first lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Twenty-second (and last!) lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
Lecture 14 - The Smallest of Small Towns (16 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Fourteenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Twelfth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Web Design for Literary Theorists II: Overview of CSS (v 1.0)Patrick Mooney
Second in a series of workshops for graduate students in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara.
More information: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/lead-ta/web-design/2013-2014/
YouTube screencast with audio: http://youtu.be/5Ds9oKV20H0
Slideshow for the fifteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m15/
Lecture 06 - The Economy That Jack Built; The Novel That George Built (18 Apr...Patrick Mooney
Sixth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Testing Oracle 12c new features of Database Table rows Archiving. Better for quick recovery information than finding tape, load that and restore somewhere first.
Lecture 16 - Who's Speaking, and What Do They Say? (23 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Sixteenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Sixteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Eighth lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
The document summarizes key passages from the first chapter of the novel "My Son's Story" that discuss several important themes:
1) Recognition and identity as the main character encounters his father for the first time.
2) The importance of education and how it shapes the main character's views on equality and social responsibility.
3) The central role that work and community play in the characters' lives and sense of purpose.
4) The complex relational dynamics between family members and how relationships change over time.
Lecture 18 - The Turn to Speculative FictionPatrick Mooney
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Lecture 07 - Europe, Home, and Beyond (23 April 2012)Patrick Mooney
Seventh lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Lecture 12 - What's Eula Worth? (9 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Twelfth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
Lecture 21 - Palimpsest of the Departed WorldPatrick Mooney
Twenty-first lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
This document summarizes and discusses different perspectives on education presented in the readings. It discusses two methods of education - one aimed at developing general ideas and one focused on practical skills. It also examines perspectives on narrow vs broad aims for education. The document then summarizes sections from the book describing two characters' differing educational experiences - one finding his education depressing and considered obsolete, while the other attended a school for gifted students.
Oracle 12c RAC Database Software Install and Create DatabaseMonowar Mukul
The document details the steps to install Oracle 12c database software and create a Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. It shows running the root.sh script on two nodes "rac1" and "rac2" to set up the Oracle environment variables and files. The last step mentions using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) tool to create the Oracle 12c RAC database.
Twenty-first lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Twenty-second (and last!) lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
Lecture 14 - The Smallest of Small Towns (16 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Fourteenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Twelfth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Web Design for Literary Theorists II: Overview of CSS (v 1.0)Patrick Mooney
Second in a series of workshops for graduate students in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara.
More information: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/lead-ta/web-design/2013-2014/
YouTube screencast with audio: http://youtu.be/5Ds9oKV20H0
Slideshow for the fifteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m15/
Lecture 06 - The Economy That Jack Built; The Novel That George Built (18 Apr...Patrick Mooney
Sixth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Testing Oracle 12c new features of Database Table rows Archiving. Better for quick recovery information than finding tape, load that and restore somewhere first.
Lecture 16 - Who's Speaking, and What Do They Say? (23 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Sixteenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Sixteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
This document discusses dystopian novels and their main characteristics. It defines dystopian as a society characterized by human misery, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. It then lists some common traits of protagonists in these novels, including possessing individuality and questioning their oppressive societies. Finally, it outlines some key features of dystopian societies depicted in novels, such as totalitarian governments that control citizens through propaganda and restrict independent thought and dissent.
Science fiction films often explore themes of advanced technology, extraterrestrial life, and their implications for humanity. District 9 depicts aliens who have become refugees in Johannesburg, exploring themes of xenophobia and corporate exploitation. The film's protagonist Wikus undergoes a metaphorical transformation as he begins to empathize with the aliens after being infected by their technology. Major conventions of the science fiction genre seen in District 9 include an alien invasion/contact scenario, advanced alien weapons, and the portrayal of a powerful multinational corporation as an antagonist.
"The war in heaven" visitors - eng 5.4.2020Heinonen Matti
Humankind has existed on Earth for millions of years and beyond what modern science can conceive.
We are now, in a very short period of time for the sake of an extremely short-sighted pursuit of economic gain, destroying both the Earth’s biosphere and ourselves.
At the same time, on our planet hidden from the general public there is an extraterrestrial ”visitor” civilization collaborating with a small group of people. Planet Earth exists within a free-will universe and accordingly we have much greater freedom of experience than in other systems that operate upon a formatted structure of predetermined action.
But in a free-will zone there are also drawbacks. One of the “rules” or base agreements is that participants within this reality have the choice to “play by the rules” or to ignore them. “What goes around comes around” is one of the rules within our universe. Humanity will eventually learn the consequences of maneuvering within the structures of universal law.
This document provides an overview of some key characteristics of science fiction as a genre based on an analysis of several example texts. It discusses how SF explores transformations to human existence through imagined technologies and ideas. It presents its stories in the context of scientific thought at the time. It also often values progress, tolerance, democracy and rationalism. The document then analyzes some works by John Wyndham to illustrate examples of changed existences, a background of science, tolerance and rationalism in his stories.
1. William Golding depicts humanity as torn between primitive innocence and an evolving intelligence in his novels, exploring the root causes of evil and seeking a relationship between man, the universe, and God.
2. Golding believed the root cause of man's fall was spiritual blindness, which made man a stranger to himself, and that self-knowledge as described in the Delphic Oracle ("know thyself") offered the only hope for redemption.
3. Through allegorical characters and worlds, Golding's novels attempted to solve the problem of expressing transcendent good and evil, showing readers how to "see" and choosing the right path to avoid a fall into darkness.
The document discusses various concepts related to narrative theory, including binary oppositions, levels of narrative, and frames. It examines how some films by David Lynch seem to contradict common assumptions about causality, linearity, and character identity in narratives. The document also discusses the concepts of multiplicity, becoming, simulation, and rupturing narratives. It provides examples of artworks that demonstrate these concepts, challenging traditional understandings of narratives.
The document discusses various narrative theories and theorists that are relevant for evaluating media productions. It describes key concepts of narrative like story, discourse, diegesis, and verisimilitude. Theories covered include Todorov's 5 stages of narrative, Propp's character archetypes, and Campbell's monomyth structure. The document reinforces that narratives across cultures generally have common structures and use binary oppositions. It emphasizes distinguishing narrative structure from theme or ideology.
Seventeenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
This document summarizes several narrative theories:
- Levi-Strauss argued narratives reduce complex worlds to simple binary structures like good vs evil.
- Shore stated music videos can be recycled, emphasize style over meaning, or simulate experiences.
- Goodwin said meaning comes from personal tastes and cultural references.
- O'Sullivan argued all media tells cultural stories through conventions.
- Domaille identified 8 common narrative types that all stories fit into.
- Cook said standard Hollywood narratives have cause-and-effect, closure, and coherent worlds.
Fourth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
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Fifth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
The document summarizes some of the key philosophers and philosophies of the 20th century. It discusses thinkers like Darwin, Einstein, Freud, Russell, and Whitehead who developed theories of evolution, relativity, and analytical philosophy. Continental philosophers like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre developed existentialism which focuses on individual experience in a universe without God or inherent meaning. Postmodernism emerged which was skeptical of grand narratives. The document also profiles philosophers like Popper, Sartre, Camus, Foucault, and Rorty and some of their main philosophical ideas.
Terror Incognita: Body Horror and the Fear of the Flesh in the Films of David...rvrich24
Cronenberg's early films like Shivers and Rabid depict societies where repression has led to a loss of connection between the mind and body. The films feature parasites or mutations that allow repressed urges and desires to emerge. This upends the sterile social order. Cronenberg then began focusing more on how individual characters' internal conflicts and obsessions transform their bodies and minds through science or pseudoscience. Films like The Brood and The Fly show characters physically manifesting their emotions or mutating as they meddle with nature and science. Overall, Cronenberg's films examine how modern society and technology affect the relationship between the rational mind and wilder bodily impulses.
Narrative theories propose that all stories follow common patterns and structures. Theorists like Tzvetan Todorov, Vladimir Propp, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes identified recurring elements of narratives, such as having a beginning, middle, end with disruption and resolution (Todorov), common character roles and functions (Propp), use of binary oppositions to develop meaning (Levi-Strauss), and codes like enigma and action that control information (Barthes). Narratives are important across fiction and non-fiction as they influence how audiences respond to and understand media texts.
Lecture 08 - “the walking dead in a horror film”Patrick Mooney
Eighth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
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Lecture 05 - The Day the World Went Away
1. Lecture 5: The Day the World Went Away
English 165EW
Winter 2013
23 January 2013
“[W]ell, maybe you’ll have seen some of Doré’s pictures of sinners in hell. But Doré couldn’t include the
sounds, the sobbing, the murmurous moaning, and occasionally a forlorn cry.”
—William Masen in The Day of the Triffids (14; ch. 1)
2. Some administrative matters
● We have now taken enough quizzes that I have a basis
for providing tentative grade evaluations for you.
● It is always OK to email me and ask me what your current
grade is.
● There are some new documents on the course
website:
● “How Your Grade Is Calculated (in Excruciating Detail)”
● Sample MLA-compliant paper
● Paper topics, grading rubric
● Let’s take a vote on 28 Days Later at the end of class.
3. … and the idea of everyday life
“Horror has two central elements:
(1) an appearance of the evil supernatural or of the
monstrous (this includes the psychopath who kills
monstrously); and
(2) the intentional elicitation of dread, visceral disgust, fear,
or startlement in the spectator or reader.” (Nickel 15)
“Although these reactions may be unpleasant and it
may be puzzling to some people why I should ever
wish to experience them, they are not desensitized
reactions. On the contrary, the reaction to terror
appears on its face to be a morally engaged
reaction.” (16)
4. “[H]orror's bite is explained ...”
“… as a sudden tearing-away of the intellectual
trust that stands behind our actions.
Specifically, it is a malicious ripping-away of this
intellectual trust, exposing our vulnerabilities in
relying on the world and on other people. […]
[H]orror puts forward scenarios that through
their vivid depiction threaten our background
cognitive reliance on others and the world
around us.” (28)
5. Horror provides three
epistemological insights
1) “[T]he intellectual backing for our practical
trust, consisting in the various background
beliefs we have that our environment (natural
and social) will behave in regular ways, cannot
be made perfectly certain.”
2) “[W]e can still go on, even in the absence of
perfect certainty.”
3) “[T]he construction of the everyday is
necessary.” (28-29)
6. So why do I belabor this point about horror?
“[H]orror gives us a perspective on so-called
common sense. It helps us to see that a notion of
everyday life completely secure against threats
cannot be possible, and that the security of
common sense is a persistent illusion. […] [T]he
idea of security in the everyday is based on an
intellectually dubious but pragmatically attractive
construction.” (17)
“The crucial point is that the viewer is not in a
position rationally to refuse the scenario of the film
as impossible, and that the paranoid scenario thus
threatens to annihilate the viewer.” (20)
7. In other words ...
● Post-apocalyptic fiction does many of the same
things that horror fiction does, and often in the
same ways, even when it does not overlap with
the horror genre explicitly.
“Horror often dramatizes the ordinary or everyday
world gone berserk and the transmogrification of
the commonplace.” (18)
● Among other things, post-apocalyptic fiction
and horror fiction share a capacity to throw our
unquestioned background assumptions into
relief and help us to think about them explicitly.
8. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas
Beynon Harris (1903-1969)
● Probably best known for
The Day of the Triffids
(1951).
● Published prolifically in
the science fiction (or
“logical fantasy”) genre
under various
combinations of
elements of his long
name.
Image from en.wikipedia.org
9. ● A defining characteristic of Wyndham’s
fiction is “the manipulation of one
fundamental element that introduces
chaos into an organised society and
culminates in the decimated civilisation
making a desperate attempt to reinvent
itself and survive.” (Mark Slattery,
“Down on Triffid Farm”)
● “With its psychological interest in how
ordinary people react to extraordinary
situations, and its air of cold war
anxiety, the novel [Day of the Triffids] is
characteristic of much of Wyndham's
mature work.” (Alastair Horne,
A triffid, from the BBC’s
Literature Online biography of
1981 television Wyndham)
adaptation of the novel.
10. Thematic concerns in post-apocalyptic
fiction
● The world in its everydayness, its (social) construction, and
its precarity.
“But then [before the ‘Great Catastrophe’] there was so much
routine, things were so interlinked. Each one of us so steadily did
his little part in the right place that it was easy to mistake habit
and custom for the natural law.” (12; ch. 1)
“Triffids were, admittedly, a bit weird—but that was, after all, just
because they were a novelty. […] The bat was an animal that had
learned to fly; well, here was a plant that had learned to walk—
what of that?” (29; ch. 2)
Josella: “You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to
realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and
certain.” (93; ch. 6)
Josella: “[T]hose of us who get through are going to be much
nearer to one another, more dependent on one another, more like
—well, more like a tribe than we ever were before.” (104; ch. 7)
11. Thematic concerns in post-apocalyptic
fiction
● Value, and the presuppositions that go into our
systems of valuing.
“Wha's good of living blind's a bat?” (17; ch. 1)
“‘Anybody who has had a great treasure has always
led a precarious existence,’ she [Josella] said
reflectively.” (55; ch. 4)
“[M]y existence simply had no focus any longer. My
way of life, my plans, ambitions, every expectation I
had had, they were all wiped out at a stroke, along
with the conditions that had formed them.” (46; ch.
3)
12. ● Often, a specific concern is the relative nature
of ethical judgments.
Bill: “Put like that, there doesn’t seem to be much
choice, does there? And even if we could save a
few, which are we going to choose? And who are
we to choose? […] Do we help those who have
survived the catastrophe to rebuild some kind of
life? Or do we make a moral gesture which, on the
face of it, can scarcely be more than a gesture?”
(85; ch. 6)
Dr. Vorless: “We must all see, if we pause to think,
that one kind of community’s virtue may well be
another kind of community’s crime; that what is
frowned upon here may be considered laudable
elsewhere; that customs condemned in one country
are condoned in another.” (98; ch. 7)
13. ● Evidence and consequence – and how causes result
in effects.
“Certainly they [the triffids] were not spontaneously
generated, as many simple souls believed. Nor did most
people endorse the theory that they were a kind of sample
visitation – harbingers of worse to come if the world did
not mend its ways and behave its troublesome self. Nor
did their seeds float to us through space as specimens of
the horrid forms that life might assume upon other, less
favored worlds […] My own belief, for what that is worth, is
that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious
biological meddlings – and very likely accidental.” (20; ch.
2)
“[A] tall, elderly, gaunt man with a bush of wiry gray hair
[…] was holding forth emphatically about repentance, the
wrath to come, and the uncomfortable prospects of
sinners. Nobody was paying him any attention; for most of
them the day of wrath had already arrived.” (43; ch. 3)
14. ● What it means to be human, and how the human is
separated from “the natural.”
Coker: “God almighty, aren’t you people human?” (81; ch.
6)
Bill: “I had the feeling that it was all something too big, too
unnatural really to happen.” (70; ch. 5)
Dr. Vorless: “I would ask you to consider very carefully
whether or not you do hold a warrant from God to deprive
any woman of the happiness of carrying out her natural
functions.” (101; ch. 7)
Alf: “Triffids, huh! Nasty damn things, I reckon. Not
natcheral, as you might say.” (110; ch. 8)
“‘Bloody unnatural brutes,’ said one. ‘I always did hate
them bastards.” (121; ch. 8)
Commander Torrance: Feudalism is “the obvious and
quite natural social and economic form for that state of
things we are having to face now.” (222; ch. 17)
15. Characteristics to discuss on Monday
● Practicality and “realism.”
● Social (re-)organization.
● The re-production of implicit, theoretical, and
practical knowledge.
● Balance and precarity.
● The (social) production of space.
16. So, what do we want to do about
28 Days Later?
17. Media credits
● The title slide includes an engraving from Gustav Doré’s
illustrations for a translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno,
which engraving is now out of copyright. Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inferno_Canto_3_
Charon_strikes_lines_107-108.jpg
● A partial still used from the BBC film adaptation of The Day
of the Triffids (slide 9) is under copyright, but has been
selected for its value as a teaching tool, and is a low-
resolution excerpt from a single frame that not suitable for
producing a quality reproduction.
● The photo of John Wyndham (slide 8) is a low-resolution
copy being used only as a teaching tool, and is
irreplaceable. Original source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wyndham_Parkes_L
ucas_Beynon_Harris.jpg