Welcome to a special Battlestar Galactica-themed week from In Media Res

While four of our curators will be approaching Battlestar Galactica through the lens of racial and representational politics, our fifth piece positions the series’ controversial and potentially subversive content in relation to its cable-based economics and demographics.

This fifth piece, by Roberta Pearson, is also a bit of an experiment for us at IMR because it was previously published back in June and is now being re-purposed to complement/complicate the other posts this week as well as situate it within a larger networked conversation about Battlestar Galactica.

So, without further adieu, this week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, July 9, 2007 – Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) presents: “Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica”

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 – Ellen Rigsby (Saint Mary’s College of California) presents: “A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG”

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 – Birgit Brander Rasmussen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “Multiracial Battlestar Galactica ”

Thursday, July 12, 2007 – Michael Peterson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “The Human Rights of Cylons as a Race”

Friday, July 13, 2007 – Roberta Pearson (Institute of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham) presents: “Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?”

Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.

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