Aaron Long
Aaron researches literature's influence on design philosophy and design history. His dissertation, 'The Rise of the Mechanimal,' defended in May 2020, argues that authors of scientific romances, including Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, Tom Greer, and H. G. Wells, used zoological anatomy to imagine modern vehicles, including those that intensified the violence of the World Wars, and cast vision for the biorobotics revolution of the twenty-first century.
As an instructor in English, Aaron has taught Transatlantic Literature (online), British Authors from 1800, topics courses in literature such as Wings as Weapons from 'The Iliad' to 'Iron Man' and Sea Monsters and Submarines, and Composition courses. As an instructor in Philosophy he has taught courses in the history of thought and topics courses such as Thinking About Animals, New Materialist Thinkers, and Vehicular Epistemologies. He has also co-taught a graduate seminar called Becoming an Effective College Instructor.
Supervisors: Kathryn Conrad, Anna Neill, Paul Outka, Byron Santangelo, Daniel Bernstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Sarah Crawford-Parker, Richard Sha, Despina Kakoudaki, Douglas Groothuis, and Kenneth Chase
Phone: 913/735.5664
Address: Liberal Arts Department
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64111-1874
As an instructor in English, Aaron has taught Transatlantic Literature (online), British Authors from 1800, topics courses in literature such as Wings as Weapons from 'The Iliad' to 'Iron Man' and Sea Monsters and Submarines, and Composition courses. As an instructor in Philosophy he has taught courses in the history of thought and topics courses such as Thinking About Animals, New Materialist Thinkers, and Vehicular Epistemologies. He has also co-taught a graduate seminar called Becoming an Effective College Instructor.
Supervisors: Kathryn Conrad, Anna Neill, Paul Outka, Byron Santangelo, Daniel Bernstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Sarah Crawford-Parker, Richard Sha, Despina Kakoudaki, Douglas Groothuis, and Kenneth Chase
Phone: 913/735.5664
Address: Liberal Arts Department
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64111-1874
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which each new match rewrites the history of Earth’s Anthropocene. The recent release of the Civilization VI: Gathering Storm expansion introduced new civilisation avatars and broadened Civilization VI’s portrayal of the environment by adding weather and geological events that complicate gameplay. The shift in ecological representation that Gathering Storm introduced may be of particular interest to humanities researchers and instructors, for when gameplay is informed by recent research in postcolonial ecocriticism and the environmental humanities it becomes apparent that the game’s vision of the world is characterised not so much by a twenty-first-century global consciousness aimed at social justice and humane reform, as by a more inclusive version of the Eurocentric imperialism of nineteenth-century thinkers. For this reason, Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is potentially a powerful teaching tool, because its representational shortcomings open its assumptions to questioning and critique informed by recent humanities research.
ivChannel and the Irish Sea, making England more susceptible to invasion than ever. H. G. Wells commingled wonder and terror in The War in the Air, which reads as a propagandistic attempt to get the Americans to develop mechanimal vehicles since England, Wells’s own country, was technologically lagging. This was one part of Wells’s oeuvre, which he used to influence the modern future throughout the world.
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Authors: Darby, Bryon, Aaron Long, Cotter Mitchell, and Aaron Paden
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which each new match rewrites the history of Earth’s Anthropocene. The recent release of the Civilization VI: Gathering Storm expansion introduced new civilisation avatars and broadened Civilization VI’s portrayal of the environment by adding weather and geological events that complicate gameplay. The shift in ecological representation that Gathering Storm introduced may be of particular interest to humanities researchers and instructors, for when gameplay is informed by recent research in postcolonial ecocriticism and the environmental humanities it becomes apparent that the game’s vision of the world is characterised not so much by a twenty-first-century global consciousness aimed at social justice and humane reform, as by a more inclusive version of the Eurocentric imperialism of nineteenth-century thinkers. For this reason, Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is potentially a powerful teaching tool, because its representational shortcomings open its assumptions to questioning and critique informed by recent humanities research.
ivChannel and the Irish Sea, making England more susceptible to invasion than ever. H. G. Wells commingled wonder and terror in The War in the Air, which reads as a propagandistic attempt to get the Americans to develop mechanimal vehicles since England, Wells’s own country, was technologically lagging. This was one part of Wells’s oeuvre, which he used to influence the modern future throughout the world.
Authors: Darby, Bryon, Aaron Long, Cotter Mitchell, and Aaron Paden