Blog Post Week #12

Here is your Week 11 blog assignment. This should be posted on your individual blog by Friday, November 11th. The title of the post should be "Last Name Blog Post #8". A good blog post will reference discussions from class as well as the assigned readings for that week (and from earlier weeks if applicable). All blog posts should be in complete sentences and show evidence of real thought. It's pretty easy to tell if you wrote it at 4:55pm on Friday. You don't have to answer all of the questions listed under each number, but you should attempt to answer the questions fully. You may write in paragraph essay form, or you can respond to each question listed by number.

This week we are looking to the future to see how others have thought about it. For this blog post, you will compare and contrast the vision of the future portrayed by EM Forester's "The Machine Stops" and one other cultural production of your choice. The other cultural production can be a song, a movie, a TV episode, painting, novel, etc., including ones that we have discussed in class. This post should be between 250 and 500 words.

Some questions to consider:

1. What is the vision that Forester shows in "The Machine Stops"? As in, what happens, what's the conflict, what issues is he responding to? What about the second cultural production?

2. What are the similarities in Forester's short story and your second choice? Differences? Why do you think they exist (as in, you may want to consider the context of the productions).

3. Do you agree with these visions of the future? Are they dystopian or utopian? How do they compare to your vision of the future?

As always, incorporate information from the weekly readings into your posts and make sure that your response meets the minimum word count in order to receive full credit for this post.