My grandfather was not pleased when my dad brought him the top-of-the-line convection microwave oven that would come to be a pivotal force in his kitchen for the next 15 years. Whatever he sensed is what I hope to explore.
A Poem for Pantagruel
Institutions crumble under the big foot of man But when he sits; rests, too long he builds them tall by hand
Community Funded Journalism
I am concerned with ways that communities can reclaim and redefine what “news” is. I think this is the future.
Copyright is a Perishable Thing
It occurs to me that I haven’t really defined ways to consider perishable things; what is perishable in Plato’s mind is not what is perishable in my mind. For starters, I would never lose my stories or my sentiment. No republic, no cave; rocking the foundations of antiquated copyright ought to be a fairly simple [...]
Oddly Disturbing and Strangely Compelling Sleepybird Video
Sleepybird rocks. Seek them out.
The Great Conversation (and how it is we are no longer speaking)
Jo Guldi writing for Absent Magazine, Issue 3: The Surprising Death of the Public Intellectual and a Manifesto for its Restoration: The issue here is the loss, for the public, of a certain kind of memory: the memory of cultural, social, and political history of human timescales, the memory that not so long ago things [...]
A Quote an Aspiring Academic Would Do Well to Remember
“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab [...]
Tolerance (and her darker side)
http://nigelwarburton.typepad.com/philosophy_bites/2008/11/wendy-brown-on-tolerance.html Finally, someone is willing to ask a worthy question on a worthy topic. What the eff is tolerance, anyway? It’s a dirty little secret, I tell you. Listen. Meanwhile, I have joined my professors club, TWAT (two women against tolerance)…
For the race was not run in vain…
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/04/us/20081104-CIVIL-AUDIOSS/index.html