Turkle on Life on the Screen
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon and Schuster (Sept. 1997): NY, NY. http://www.amazon.com/Life-Screen-Identity-Age-Internet/dp/0684833484 Are you a Mac or a PC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4 Besides the brilliantly clever advertising campaign Apple launched asking this very question (with the costs passed directly to the customer), this question has a complicated history […]
Rietje van Vliet on “Print and Public in Europe 1600-1800”
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book. Oxford/Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. Z4 C73 2007; ISBN 978-1-4051-2765-3. The rise of the print industry: This chapter is framed by the claim that while bookstores – with title page advertisements on the windows and shelves full of unbound books (in folio, […]
Eliot and Rose on “North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800”
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book. Oxford/Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. Z4 C73 2007; ISBN 978-1-4051-2765-3. “North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800” Shortly after Gutenberg invented the printing press with movable type, the discovery of America was documented through this technology. For instance arguably the most […]
Johns on Piracy
Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. U of Chicago P: 2009. Part 1: To be continued in a future post… The rise of piracy in the seventeenth century correlates with the ability to print – raising important questions about the nature of knowledge: can knowledge be authored, owned, and stolen? […]
Hayles on Cybernetics
Hayles, N. Katherine. “Cybernetics.” Mitchell, W. J. T. and Mark B. N. Hansen, eds. Critical Terms for Media Studies. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 146-156. In this article Hayles suggests that media can be understood through materiality, technology, semiotics, and social contexts. The article examines these aspects of media through systems theory – exploring […]
MLA Seattle 2012
I have just returned from the Modern Language Association conference in Seattle, WA. This was my third time attending MLA, but my first time presenting. To my surprise our panel (abstracts found here: Conference Program) had a huge audience, in which every seat was filled and many people were standing in the back. The audience […]
Create a Social Media Newspaper
Recently in my Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Core II course at the Graduate Center, the class showed off their many gadgets – including many microphones and video cameras – but also new-to-me tech such as Jack Power’s fly pen and my Jennifer Jacob’s arduino. My professors, Chris Stein and Joe Ugoretz, also demonstrated the capabilities […]
MLA 2012 in Seattle
It is official friends! I will be presenting at MLA 2012. For those of you who are interested, I am including the panel information and my abstract: What Works? Integrating Literature and Culture Innovative strategies for integrating literary and cultural studies in English and Foreign Language lower division and continuing education courses. Roundtable with George […]
Androids as False Gods
This is the first in a series of movie reviews I would like to add to this blog. This was originially posted on the ITP Core I – Fall 2010 blog: In his article “The Dangers of Individualism and the Human Relationship to Technology in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Christopher […]
Graduate Conference Acceptance!
I am excited to announce that my paper has been accepted to Food! The Conference! at the CUNY Graduate Center. Here is the abstract for those of you who are interested: Recipe for Restoration Ben Jonson’s plays Volpone and Epicoene are both peppered with puns pertaining to the preparation and consumption of food. Both prologues […]