Team Woodstock on the Road

Emily Dickinson, rather than constructing a singularly focused representation of sexuality, portrays a continuum of manifestations of sexual desire in her poetry. In ‘One Sister have I in our house, Poem 14’ and ‘My Life had stood – A Loaded Gun, Poem 764’ we can see these desires distinctly differ, not only by the poetic verse in which they are contained but by time and the gender of the subject…

I started Far Cry 5 in 2020, when it was only 2 years old. But back then, I was such a terrible in-game driver that it ruined the experience. Also, you couldn’t bring the dog or the bear in the car. 0/10 stars. But as I mentioned in my last post about Far Cry 5, a lot has changed in how I play games. Spoilers for a 7-year-old game… Those Damn Seeds As we’ve come to expect in the Far Cry…

The first time I played any game in the Far Cry series was while I was doing a Master’s thesis on post apocalyptic games from an ecocritical perspective. It was Far Cry: New Dawn and I found myself wracked with guilt every time I killed an animal. Even harvesting flowers was a nightmare as suddenly I was endangering the habitats of the hummingbirds and other pollinators who hovered around…

The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things

Ecology in Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently Series Abstract: The Dirk Gently series written by Douglas Adams mixes comedy, detective fiction and science fiction to create narratives capable of conveying ecological meaning in a variety of ways. Using ecocritical theory this thesis unpacks the ecological themes and implications of the Dirk Gently series; ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’…

Replaying Some Distant Memory

When I finished my thesis I really didn’t think I’d be revisiting Some Distant Memory (Galvanic Games 2019) any time in the near future. The story is captivating but it is quite linear. But when I realised how incomplete my notes were from my Masters I was forced to go back to the game before I finalised my paper for ASLE 2021. The game is a third person, post-apocalyptic adventure game. It…

Young Adult Cli-Fi -A Comparative Case Study

Focusing on Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi, Carbon Diaries; Book 1 by Saci Lloyd & Solstice by PJ Hoover Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction utilises adolescent anxieties and curiosities about the future, allowing the reader to negotiate those anxieties in speculative future spaces. As a coming of age narrative, the dystopian novel often creates a reality in which challenges such as-…

Spectral Blue; Colour in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets

Image By User:A,Ocram – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44833045 ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ – Bluets by Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson, in her book Bluets (2009), singles out one colour, blue, for special attention, however, it becomes clear very quickly that no colour can exist in isolation, despite the…

In Cold Blood & Capote – Or why you should never trust a writer…

Welcome to season 2 of The Frankenpod in which we will be looking at Truman Capote and his “literary non-fiction” novel In Cold Blood (1966).

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The media that we focused on included;

The 1966 novel In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote.

 The 2005 film Capote directed by Bennett Miller…

Game On {Gamification and the Student Experience}

More Homework!

This one has a podcast!

https://soundcloud.com/morgan-pinder-524404530/gamification-and-the-student-experience

Look I make poor dietary decisions on the regular, so it’s probably not particularly surprising that as soon as local restaurants in our smallish rural city started operating through Eat Now I took advantage of this new and exciting way to be incredibly lazy and eat bad…

My Podcast Problem ALC708 Assesment 1

If you’ve been following my blog for a while you will know that I’ll often post uni work that is relevant to the literature, podcasting and writing nonsense that you will often find here. This time my first assessment is a blog post. This blog post.

I was going to try not to do this assignment on podcasts, but it is basically all I do.

I don’t watch TV or movies, I listen to Podcasts.

I get on…

I listen to a LOT of podcasts. I started with Serial as I think a lot of people did and it was the gateway drug into a full blown podcast problem. Lately, since we released our own podcast really, I’ve been exposed to a world of indie podcasts that I just wouldn’t have heard about otherwise. It’s really easy to get caught in a bit of a feedback loop, and for these podcasts to only reach audiences…

Decorative Sex – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

  This is the blog post for our episode Decorative Sex – The Picture of Dorian Gray in which we explore Oscar Wilde’s construction of a unique gothic monster, Mr Dorian Gray. Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray has an esteemed place within the gothic literary canondespite the fact that Wilde may have adopted the tropes of the gothic genre as a kind of set dressing similar to the way that…

It’s ALIVE 💥 The FrankenPod Pilot

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Listen via YouTube Maybe… If I can work out the bugs.

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This is our pilot episode in which Brent and I stumble through the disparate plot points of the 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein or the Modern day Prometheus by Mary Shelley and the 1931 movie Frankenstein directed by James Whale and adapted by James L. Balderston.

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Brent and I have a new audio/podcast project called The FrankenPod.

“A podcast stitched together from the corpses of mystery, noir and gothic literature and cinema”

It’s very early days but we would love for you to give it a listen.

If you have a film or book you love and it fits the criteria we’d love you to contribute.

Listen to the new episode of The FrankenPod HERE

Here is part of the…

The Politics of Sex and Gender in Middlemarch, “The Goblin Market” and “A Castaway” By Morgan Pinder

Discourse regarding gender in Victorian literature has its foundation in an entrenched, and for the most part unchallenged binary. Coming out of the Georgian and Regency eras the societal expectations placed upon a woman were very clearly those of subservience and benignity, whereas the man was…

Women in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century began to utilize the persuasive power of the essay in order to put forward their ideas about what values and rights women should have. Whilst many women were beginning to write and philosophize outside of the domestic sphere, the persuasive writing of women gained an audience when utilizing topics relating to domesticity as a springboard for…

Right still processing the final episodes of Twin Peaks and crunching all the Twin Peaks podcasts I can get my hands on.

Not going to lie, I was a little disappointed when Naido turned into Diane. I love Diane Evans as a potential character and I adore Laura Dern’s depiction of her, bit with the tulpa and all the trauma she’s been through I just feel like I never really got to know her. Maybe it…