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Soooo... while I try and figure out if I really want to write that Spock-centric K/S fanfic that I've been kicking around in my head (and try to determine how badly I want Pike to figure into the whole thing...) I have offerings of theory to the un-interested masses...

That's right, quotations of Nineteenth Century scientific literature knitted together with contemporary cyborg theory. Gotta love it. Some of it won't make sense, but hopefully (for the interested) some of it will.

by the bye, new icon is care of the ever fabulous

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Yes, yes... i admit to my shame... i have a BLOG and a LJ account...

god, technology is taking over my life....

So, my blog is a place for me to vent about my research, BUT, there are no cuts on my blog page and therefore, it just looks wrong to me. And since I'm going to be dumping a lot of text on some of these essays, the last thing I want to be worrying about is how it looks...

Ergo, I link the big stuff to my LJ account and hide it behind a cut where the unwary can avoid my rather pendantic rants about theory and be saved the horror of having the plow through my take on theory no one but me (and perhaps a few other dusty academics) actually care about...

Bonus, this helps me study and get everything straight before I have to head into class AND gives me notes that I can return to before my field exam.

Score.

So yeah, if you see a tag marked "theory" and have absolutely no interest in cyborg lit/theory, victorian lit/theory, or anything to do with the american renaissance, incest in literature, or cultural theory in general.... please ignore the ranting...

if, on the other hand, you want to poke the grad student with a stick and talk theory, I am TOTALLY there... just ask my ex, there is nothing that makes me happier than talking theory (much to the consternation of said ex).

So yeah... here's the first installation. Notes on Gottfried Leibniz's "The Monadology." Good stuff, if rather trying, it is something like two hundred years old now but has some pretty cool implications for contemporary cyborg theory and ideas of dualism. Dude named Le Metterie takes him on in his book, Man a Machine, Man a Plant, which I am reading for Monday and need to have a grasp on this before I continue.

Anyway.... here is the begining, complete with a vocab list (which is pretty critical to read through if you want to breakdown of what is actually going on) and a list of some things that you need to know before you start (including the basics of Newton, Descartes and Plato).

Title: “What Dreams May Come”

Pairing: Jack/Ianto

Rating: R

Spoilers: Cyberwoman, Countricide

Disclaimer: Newbie here. Nice to meet you. I have no idea what I am doing and I just hope that I can get this posted to the internet without nuking my computer (god bless its rusty little head). Thanks for reading. Comments welcome, they'll let me know if nothing else that this site made it to the public. NOTE: Any and all praise deserves to go to my lovely, talented and patient beta Sabrinafayre  for all her hard work at making me coherent. Thanks again.