Write a final essay between Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double Spaced MLA Format 3000-3500 words on the close reading exercise option in the syllabus I attached. Write the essay exactly as the PDF states and carefully read the parameters and requirements. Carefully read the syllabus PDF as well, since you will have to write your paper on one of the readings/films on the syllabus. Since the class is a Virtual Realities class, the paper needs to explore the idea of virtuality/reality in regard to your choice of material.
I have a rough draft that is 3 pages 998 words already done, but I am not sure if I am on the right track. I will send you my rough draft once you are selected to work on the question. If I am on the right track you could just add more to my draft to meet the 3000-3500 word requirement. If I am not on the right track kindly revise the rough draft so that it meet the requirements and 3000-3500 word requirement.
Please write the essay on the third option which is the close reading exercise 🙂 and based it on the articles by Hayles, Baudrillard, and Turing which I chose from my syllabus and have attached :).
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999).
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981): “The Precession of Simulacra”
Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950)
- Close reading exercise: 1) Pick a single passage or scene from any text/film we’ve read/watched thus far. The passage/scene should be one that contains a puzzle for you. There should be something in it that doesn’t seem easily reconcilable with the arguments or perspectives developed at other points in the text. Something that seems to require explanation. 2) Your first paragraph should contain a very brief statement of the question the passage has led you to pose and an equally brief statement of why you think this question is important to an understanding of the work. 3) For the next 5 or so pages, analyze the passage/scene in terms of your question. You’re looking to solve your puzzle, or at least to circumscribe the space within which a possible solution would have to lie. (If you’ve picked a difficult passage/scene and posed a tough enough question, you may well find that you can’t actually “solve” the problem you’ve set for yourself. That’s fine. Your grade will in no way depend on whether or not you’ve conclusively answered the question.)
4) Feel free to quote from or make references to other places in the text/film, to the extent that you need these other passages in order to make your point. Do try, though, not to stray too far from the analysis of the passage in question.
5) Make as few general, unsupported, non-interpretive claims as humanly possible. (Ideally: zero.)
6) There is no need to draw on secondary literature, although you can do so if you like. If you do, make sure to cite it according to one of the usual citational conventions (MLA, Chicago, …).
7) Do this twice, with passages/scenes from two different works.
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