About Richard

I have been writing poetry for roughly 30 years. I do not write poetry with that goal of publication in mind, but rather, attempts to capture the healing of truths. I am writing non-fiction, and sometimes fiction, with the goal of eventual proper publication, despite how late in life such acts would be. I am a fervent believer in a greatly reformed educational system. I believe that holds the key, or at least, a significant leaping off point to maintaining and initiating societal reforms. Yes, to many this is obvious, but implementing such an endeavor and to what extent it should be calibrated is something I have also worked on, through writings only (again, only sometimes available online). I am an independent researcher in Violence Studies, Feminist Theology, Education Reform, and Science Fiction. I am a book collector, audiophile, and I am a recovered fountain pen addict. My interests include history, astronomy, literary theory, climate, radical geography, neuroscience, ontology, space and place, ecology, sociology, anthropology, and the relationship between technology and identity, or how society and institutions may evolve towards a humanitarian worldview ahead of technological development.

I have a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University (mostly philosophy and ethics courses, but not restricted to that. Also digital humanities, history, and my master’s thesis was related to feminist theology). 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. Though I don’t hold the additional degrees I took more than enough classes for a BA in English and almost enough classes for a BA in History. It all started at community college believe it or not. From community college to grad school at Johns Hopkins.

It occurs to me to point out that you will not see me discussing any of the science fiction books that I read on this website. That is intentional. The issue is that I don’t want to write book reviews. That does not interest me. Not to mention there are already book reviews out there for every science fiction book ever written. I try to maintain writing about shows most sci-fi fans will have already seen, while keeping with the theme of ethics. That subject was drilled into my mind in grad school and most of undergrad, too. This isn’t a catch-all website tunnel. It is just my contribution.

I should also add that 100% of the posts here are written by me and me alone. Nothing written here is constructed, consulted, or brain stormed by AI available systems. Here is the article I was reading that made me realize I should offer that assurance and it is natural to assume AI generated websites will be, or have already started, launching all over the place.

scifi.global

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

Clarification of a Poem

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

A Poem Recited by God as Best as I Could Understand Her

The Impasse Up North

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

Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Parts I-III

Border Rushes on Stall-wick Proposals

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

Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

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)

Hysteria in the Late Nineteenth-Century

An Obligor Whispers

Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V

Those sundry amber lakes

Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

The Accrued Mornings

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”

Pluripotent Abstractions On a Cliff Down the River from a Rented Gold Mine

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

Spaeman of Silicone Mattresshouses

Haley Heynderickx

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”

Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve

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 incoming, new major women’s movement, as holy as it is

When the Kids Have Stopped Working

Diastole Consumption on Rockmary Leaves

Kindness Literacy

The theft of broken windows

** No One Buys Books, by Elle Griffin

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