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
First Contact: Will They or Won’t They Commingle Science and Ontology?
Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy
Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism
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)
Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V
Possible Model for Alternative Futurism: Responsibility to Leave (R2L)
God is Coming for Me Soon: My Ongoing, Complex, Relationship with Progressive Theology
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
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
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
The Possibility of a Ferengi Future
Capitalism and Violence-Customs
Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning” – Dr. Federico Savini
Identity and Captain Louanne “Kat” Katraine
Reception for an occasional prohibitive competitor
The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”
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
Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)
Eddington is Right When He States that Utopia Requires Assimilation
Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations
Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko
Erasure of Solitary Meals and Gas Pipes
The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority
Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” and Voyager’s “Nothing Human”
Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi
Who Watches the Watchers Watching; without Watching?
From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
** No One Buys Books, by Elle Griffin
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