Who wants to have some fun? Seriously.

This semester I'll be teaching a Writing 20 here at Duke organized around Utopian science fiction from the latter half of the twentieth century: Star Trek, The Dispossessed, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and Dollhouse. (A longer description can be found here.) In keeping with the themes of the course that consider the digital as a possible space for Utopia, I've decided to move from the Blackboard discussion forum to a public blog housed with Duke's new WordPress project.

Special Post-Halloween post! I can haz robot holocaust?

The city, however, has long been thought of as a kind of medium in its own right.

Well, is it?

This past weekend marked the third installment of the University of Southern California's year-long series of events, TransFormations. This most recent event was titled Fiction Science and focused on the relationship between, well, ficti