Dr. Mark A. McCutcheon
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The Expanse Season 6 [media review]
(Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2022)A critical review of season 6 of the science fiction TV series The Expanse for the international SF journal Foundation. -
Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse
(University of Delaware Press, 2022)This chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and ... -
A Close Reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch’s 1977 long poem SEED CATALOGUE
(The Explicator, 2017)A close reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch's 1977 long poem Seed Catalogue -
Cynicism, the Heuristic Pharmakon
(English Studies in Canada, 2012-06)Cynicism can productively guide critical thinking about social relations under late neoliberal capital, in terms of power and ethics, in terms of knowledge and interpretation. A cynical perspective makes for a safe bet in ...