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Title
Access Type
Campus Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
English
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2013
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
virtuality, family, counterculture, consumerism, volcanology
Abstract
This book is about two families in Seattle acting out their dysfunction through a virtual world created by the families’ wrongheaded patriarchs. It attempts to explore digital world-building in the 21st century as an indefatigable expression of our cultural and personal desire to possess and produce the other, or our inability to imagine anything truly new even as we are capable of creating new forms with which to imagine and manifest that which we imagine. Note: this is an early draft of the book.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/4026857
First Advisor
Sabina Murray
Second Advisor
Noy Holland