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BO RUBERG, Ph.D.
To reach Dr. Ruberg, please email them at bruberg [at] uci.edu. You can also find them on Twitter as @myownvelouria.
Dr. Ruberg is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
For more information about Dr. Ruberg and their work, please visit the "Bio & Contact" section or their UCI faculty page.OUR GLASS LAKE
is Bo's blog and personal website.- Title: "'Look, make Mother take you and me to Our Glass Lake tomorrow.' These were the textual words said to me by my twelve-year-old flame in a voluptuous whisper." -Lolita
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Animals Are Listening and They’re Pissed: Talking Whales and Kafka’s ‘The Vulture’
Funny that, while taking a work break after re-reading Kafka’s short story “The Vulture” (“Die Geier”), I should encounter this animal interest piece about a beluga whale caught on tape sounding an awful lot like a person. According to i09, … Continue reading
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Playing Gender, Gendered Play: Deceit and Authenticity in Turing’s ‘Imitation Game’
At the beginning of the 1950 essay in which he lays out his famous “Turing test,” Alan Turing tells us that, before we can imagine a machine thinking like a human, we have to imagine a man thinking like a … Continue reading
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“Lost Girls: Constructing and Desiring Girlhood”
Since I’m not teaching this semester, it seems like fall has barely started. Actually, apparently, it’s time to look ahead to spring classes. I’m excited to be teaching a solo reading and composition course next semester called “Lost Girls: Constructing … Continue reading
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Calder’s ‘Weight Lifter’ Shakes It at Legion of Honor security
Yesterday was the last day of “Lee Miller and Man Ray: Partners in Surrealism” at The Legion of Honor. The exhibit, which highlighted Miller and Ray’s overlapping careers, seems to have garnered mixed reviews. Personally, as a scholar who works … Continue reading
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Planking as Performance Art
The following is a post I wrote recently for my “Understanding New Media” class blog in response to Shannon Jackson’s book Social Works. I’m personally tickled by, and not entirely unserious about, planking as body-based performance art: A group of … Continue reading
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“Reading Video Games like Literature”
I’m headed back to Sweden in just a few days to deliver the opening keynote at the Gotland Game Conference, “Reading Video Games like Literature.” Here’s the gist: Whole books have been written about Hamlet’s famous six words, “To be … Continue reading
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“Sex as Game: Playing with the Erotic Body in Virtual Worlds”
I published my first academic essay! It’s like being a nascent, nineteen-year-old freelance journalist all over again. “Sex as Game: Playing with the Erotic Body in Virtual Worlds” came out in Rhizomes 21: Hives and Tribes this past week. Rhizomes … Continue reading
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“100 Works of Impossible Art”
At the Louvre last January, I saw a temporary exhibit on the art of the list, curated by Umberto Eco. The exhibit itself was underwhelming, but one piece — a large list written on one of the gallery walls — … Continue reading
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Sleep, you tease, I will figure you out
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been half-heartedly monitoring my sleep cycle using, you know, Sleep Cycle. In theory it’s useful for waking you up when you’re already most awake, circumventing that WTF-how-is-it-morning feeling. Normal charts come out looking like … Continue reading
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“Aeneas (But Never on the Tide)”
Continuing the proud tradition of bad automatic poetry generated in the rich creative environment that is the BART, here’s a piece seeded with the word “Aeneas.” Why yes, I am sensing a trend. This is what happens when you spend … Continue reading
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