{"id":149,"date":"2023-02-01T17:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/?p=149"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:37:49","slug":"for-thursday-feb-2-and-tuesday-feb-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/2023\/02\/01\/for-thursday-feb-2-and-tuesday-feb-7\/","title":{"rendered":"For Thursday (Feb. 2) [and Tuesday (Feb.7)]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus: Drone Footage of San Francisco&#039;s Empty Streets\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQky8qARcwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Thursday (Feb.2), read Ben Lindbergh&#8217;s essay &#8211; &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/tv\/2022\/1\/14\/22883115\/station-eleven-last-of-us-pandemic\">Post-Apocalyptic Media in the Time of a Pandemic<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Lindbergh&#8217;s brief piece reflects on his fascination with post-apocalyptic narratives as the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a short piece of writing (no more than 250 words) think about and respond to these questions: What is the main reason Lindbergh seems to settle on to explain his fixation on post-apocalyptic narrative in the spring of 2020? How does Lindbergh&#8217;s explanation jibe with your own (possible) fixation or appreciation for post-apocalyptic narrative in these pandemic times?<\/p>\n<p>You will submit your response via google docs.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/how-to-create-share-a-google-doc\/\">this page<\/a> for some basic instructions about how to create and share your writing with me.\u00a0 Try to finish your writing by and share your document with me by Friday (Feb. 3) at noon.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a head start on our next in-class session, read Richard Matheson&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I Am Legend<\/span> (1954).\u00a0 You can find an online\/free\/downloadable copy of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/richard-matheson-i-am-legend\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final note<\/strong>. For those who have requested and received permission numbers to enroll in the class, I received this communication from SFSU administration this morning: &#8220;<em>Note: Permission numbers won\u2019t allow a student to enroll in a full or closed course until the second week of classes, although <\/em><a title=\"https:\/\/registrar.sfsu.edu\/permissionnumber\" href=\"https:\/\/registrar.sfsu.edu\/permissionnumber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>some AOCs and department chairs<\/em><\/a><em> have access to issue permission numbers that will let a student into a class that is full\/closed.<\/em><em>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>In other words, you won&#8217;t be able to actually use the permission number until next week.\u00a0 Ours is not to reason why &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 evidently.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve received a permission number, hang in there.\u00a0 All will be well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Thursday (Feb.2), read Ben Lindbergh&#8217;s essay &#8211; &#8211; &#8220;Post-Apocalyptic Media in the Time of a Pandemic.&#8221;\u00a0 Lindbergh&#8217;s brief piece reflects on his fascination with post-apocalyptic narratives as the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the world. In a short piece of writing (no more than 250 words) think about and respond to these questions: What is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/2023\/02\/01\/for-thursday-feb-2-and-tuesday-feb-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Thursday (Feb. 2) [and Tuesday (Feb.7)]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}