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    the semiotic ghosts of futures past


    2012 - 08.29

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    the rhetorical future, round one


    2012 - 08.27

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    Apple and dystopia:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsWzJo2sN4

     

    Reagan and utopia:

     

    The US military’s science-fictional appeal:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiB3vrhPDNs

     

    AT&T tries its hand:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0

     

    it begins


    2012 - 08.27

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    Welcome to English 30:  Writing the Future!  This will serve as our online home, as Penn State’s official course management system, ANGEL, leaves quite a lot to be desired.  Stay tuned for resources, interesting links, assignments, and other such useful and relevant things.