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I just started reading Margaret Price’s Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.   It came out a few weeks ago and I quickly ordered a copy on Amazon after a professor at Haverford who specializes in disability studies suggested that it would be an interesting read for my independent study.  Price is a professor of English at Spelman College and is interested in expanding disability studies to include those with mental disabilities or what she also calls “psychosocial disability” (a term she likes because "it bumps psych (soul) against social context", br

                          (Hilazon Cave)

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Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, is a vigilante determine to bring justice to Gotham, a justice-less city. He has the his parents fortune and company backing him, and so has access to the newest and best technology before it's on the market. The same company and money help hide his vigilante work.

As a woman, Renee Montoya, aka the Question, does things differently. If Montoya wants to lead a successful double life, she has to use different methods to cover her tracks: she has to live life as a woman. This is a story of a day in her life (specifically, a day when she is working the Soliz case of the Dark Detective series).

Background Information

Our Minds Were Made for Mergers// an exploration of what it means to be human and cyborg using Ghost in the Shell, Beyond Human, and Andy Clark

PRIS ASKS:

"Human is not a fixed concept, but a construction constantly under challenge and revision" (cited in Hayles's How We Think).

I am hopeless with technology, so I could not figure out how to embed the slideshow I made.
Here is the link - enjoy!  To go to the next slide, just click on the arrow that appear on the right of the slide.
http://www.photosnack.com/slideshows/7c12c0a7978863842f22b5cbfa619768