Knowledge Commons | Samuel Baker | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/sam_baker/activity/ Activity feed for Samuel Baker. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6e263175eed5a4538cc2a2ab60ec732f Samuel Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890928/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:46:12 -0400 0 ca3796cbc602a46466ccc57c2be48c80 Samuel Baker deposited AI Before AI https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879079/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:45:37 -0400 Book Review forthcoming in Poetics Today 45:2 (2024) Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, eds., AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 424 + xiv pp. Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal, eds., Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines. New York: Oxford…[Read more]

]]> 0 797b917bc596e6f0a71fc815bc427270 Samuel Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825410/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:24:19 -0500 0 aa640e807013696f8321603d8c1901ce Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750927/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:32:10 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

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]]> 0 773905bdbc31acc9dd4e97dc5e5926db Samuel Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750886/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:54:07 -0400 0 06cfe589aeeefa703bd832c6db4b163c Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1743682/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:30:40 -0400 A distinctive style of "Scottish Gothic’"emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]

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