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 * Questions:
     * How much is intuitive vs deliberate? --- Deliberate mostly in revision, intuitive in writing. In revision, can force it into consciousness
     * Are there styles that work better in certain genres, or are they genre agnostic? --- *Can* span genres, but depends on authorial intent (e.g: minimalism, focus on plot, etc). Be strategic, be careful (e.g: if you have two compound sentences, consider a simple sentence). Use tension to speak about bigger/vaguer/more fluid things. Use tension to avoid didactic writing.
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+# Cyborgs!
+
+* Craft talk on reimagining scifi tropes and why
+* Trope:
+    * Convention/device that establishes predictable/stereotypical representation of character/setting/scenario in creative work
+    * Trope vs cliche: trope more of a signpost of where the reader is; tropes *have* cliches associated with them
+    * Neat way to find your way into a genre
+* Cyborgs!
+* Robots: mechanical creations
+* Androids: human-like robots
+* Cyborgs: human-born amalgamations --- cybernetics + organism
+* Example of flexible scifi trope that can be used in many ways
+* a scale of incorporating technology into real bodies. Real *now* with artificial limbs, artificial joints, maybe even glasses
+* flexibility and popularity (visible+misunderstood) good for playing with
+* liminal, between human and machine but neither
+* both hard and soft scifi
+* inherently political
+    * technology
+    * medicine
+    * law, civil rights, privacy
+    * bodily autonomy
+    * sexism
+    * racism
+    * ablism
+    * sports
+    * war
+    * intimacy/relationships
+* Cyborgish cliches
+    * superbeing (soldier, villain)
+    * causes (government experiment, horrible accident)
+    * heightened senses
+    * dystopia (low life + high tech)
+    * gender?
+* Discussion on Chi:
+    * cyborgs as uplifted broken things vs this poem as uplifted low art
+    * playing with gender (if cyborg is female, protagonist is male and falls in love)
+    * cyborg advocates outside the media
+    * translation vs not enough information, poetry resists reader
+    * cyborg as metaphor for other where we fail to do the understanding
+* Discussion on It's all fun and games until someone gains consciousness:
+    * dividers are close comments
+    * Poems would be compiler errors
+    * Is this deliberate? Would an AI laugh if it looked at its code and saw this instead?
+    * Maybe gaining consciousness is some happy event
+* Comparison of other poems:
+    * cyborg as reality rather than metaphor in Weise's work (the poet is the cyborg rather than an ally or outsider)
+    * someone on the outside speaking of the cyborg as 'it' vs the mind as 'she', impersonal, how do authorities view cyborgs? The concept of the 'less dead', at what point does it become important?
+    * balancing humanity in cyborg while denying it in order to have an 'other'
+    * cyborgs as lived reality, but scifi occasionally warning
+* Married
+    * From collection *Upgraded* 2014
+    * Cyborg less about hardware, but the experience of replacement/loss
+    * Teeth (mouth) as intimate area
+    * Narrator keeps talking about ghost, but is there death?
+    * Is this about a takeover? Is the end state everyone being sentin? Very personable grey goo scenario
+* Writing prompt: Take a genre trope (some are listed on the next slide) and twist it. You could do so in terms of tone: Make a conventionally whimsical trope scary, or add some humor to a sinister figure borrowed from horror fiction. Or you could try to subvert expectations through setting, structure, POV, or another element of craft. You could even take the approach of Franny Choi in “Chi” and create something that talks back to your chosen trope as it exists in another text. Whatever trope you’re reimagining should be evident from the opening lines of your piece, which could take the form of a story or a poem. 

diary/diary.md

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 ### December
 
-- [Subverting expectations with your sentences](2022-12-31-subverting-sentences)
+- [Subverting expectations with your sentences and Cyborgs](2022-12-31-subverting-sentences)
 
 ### September
 

writing/index.md

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 * [X] [Mitzvot](post-self/mitzvot/index)
 * [O] [Selected Letters](post-self/selected-letters/index)
 * [.] [BS and conducting](bs/conducting)
-* [.] [Heresiarch](heresiarch)
+* [.] [Heresiarch](heresiarch) (Antiquity anthology)
+* [ ] [Saint](saint) (Medieval anthology)
 
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