CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Plutonium, Steampunk, Wishful Thinking

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 3D03
• Professor: Philip Savage

Document Summary

It is physically present and concrete to all senses. Desire, forced by circumstances to think in new ways. Ex) vardy"s personal grief-> makes him want to make darwinism/ science. Creating groups based on beliefs and abstract reasons. The squid-> is from many dimensions and is only known partially. The past and our knowledge about it are always. There is an array of characters with different strengths that help to create new viewpoints. This story was not written as a questioning of knowledge. It is seen as a creation/ reminder of histories that have been lost, hidden or forgotten. There is a record of what people have said or done for the monastery. They did it for honour, but mostly money. By forcing our perspectives to change and expand. It is often difficult to release an idea. Paranormal, history makes it difficult to believe anything else. It would be denied, but it did exist and still does possibly.