this and that, here and there

I immersed myself into Violence Studies, with the belief that violence is not inevitable and that if society is to overcome violence, it must be understood. I have also worked on a self-imposed regimented program and independent research related to sociology and radical geography. I have an extensive scholarly library that I have built up over the years. My research is based on my continued focus on history and literature. I also incorporated my research on Violence Studies and Space and Place and some elements of cultural anthropology. At the risk of being exceedingly presumptuous, if not arrogant, I conjured the terms “biolence,” “Epitome scaling,” “Share-metrics,” “violence-narratives,” “violence-customs ,” “socio-ontological denominationalism,” and “nuclear religiosity” in my sometimes available writings on post-violence societies and feminist theology (I thought I came up with “masculinarity,” but I checked and someone else thought of it first).

I have a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University (mostly philosophy and ethics courses, but not restricted to that. Also digital humanities and history). I also hold an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree from Portland State University where I focused on Women’s Studies, Conflict Resolution, and Literature. Additionally I attended an HBCU, Bowie State University, where I majored in English with a concentration in Africana. I took more than enough classes for a BA in English, without earning the degree, and more than enough classes to minor in History. It all started at community college believe it or not. From community college to grad school at Johns Hopkins. It was quite a ride!

In the rare event that I need to be contacted, my email is rtilley4-AT-alumni.jh-DOT-edu

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Towards Post-Violence Societies: An Outline of Interdisciplinary Violence Studies and Violence Research

Clarification of Poem

First Contact: Will They or Won’t They Commingle Science and Ontology?

Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy

When God Cries Tears of Grass

Faulted King

Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism

If History Itself is God

Common Turn Honeycreeper

Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today

Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

Poems, Poetry, Poetics

Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts

Trauma and Post-Modern Subtext in Star Trek

Towards a Revisioning of the Courts: A Short Theory

Angry With The Waters (long, epic poem)

An Obligor Whispers

Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V

Those sundry amber lakes

White Cornelian Cherry

Possible Model for Alternative Futurism: Responsibility to Leave (R2L)

God is Coming for Me Soon: My Ongoing, Complex, Relationship with Progressive Theology

The last leaves of April

The First Steps to Reaching a SciFi-Like Utopia From Where the Western World is Right Now

Solarpunk and the Vestiges of the Ascetic

Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World

Narrative Obtrusion and Difference in the Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” and Enterprise’s “Damage”

Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz

Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Xenophobia, Communication, and Our Dissuading First Contact

First Contact and the Theory of Monetized Empathy

When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice  (Notes and rough drafts)

The United Traits of Bajoran and Cardassian Resistance

SciFi.earth

Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait

When the Sky is Beautiful Again, Always

Masculinarity as a Possible Universal Trait

Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution

On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism

Cylon Number Six as Savior of the Twelve Colonies

Space Strategist and Ethicist: First Contact Strategy and Ethics

A Vision of Sands

Anti-Utopian Leadership

The Possibility of a Ferengi Future

Capitalism and Violence-Customs

Burden of Action

Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning” – Dr. Federico Savini

Guillemot Villages

Levinas and the Other

Identity and Captain Louanne “Kat” Katraine

Reception for an occasional prohibitive competitor

sosenuto conversion

Prince of Memphis

Grey Matter

The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”

The Orville’s “Mad Idolatry” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “Sacred Ground” as a Lesson in Explanatory Ethics

Stolen for the Afternoon

Without Homes and Dressings

Criminal Apples Listening to Songs From The Capeman

Extreme Risk” and “Invasive Procedures” as Symbols of Capitalist Internalization

In the County Villages of 1960s Seismology

Václav Havel’s Spirit Visited Me

Inciting God

Esurient Farandoule

Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)

Knock Out Roses for China

Eddington is Right When He States that Utopia Requires Assimilation

Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations

Volunteers of East Redbrook

Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko

Depersonalization and Violence in The Next Generation episode, “Violations,” and the Voyager episode, “Remember”

Receptacles for Creation

Erasure of Solitary Meals and Gas Pipes

The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority

A Note on Open Access

The Contempt of Loneliness

The Ontology of a Hummingbird

Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” and Voyager’s “Nothing Human”

Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi

A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations

Who Watches the Watchers Watching; without Watching?

From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism

A Tariff on Trust

Soul in Orbital Decay

Mastic Resin on Closed Nights

The theft of broken windows

** No One Buys Books, by Elle Griffin

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