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The Faster’s Diary – Preface
On June 1st, 2012, I stepped on the scale and was shocked to find a number better suited to a light weight NFL running back: 205 lbs. Sure, I was a long way from the slim-and-trim gym swinging days of...
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Silas Marner: How the World Comes Out Right
Silas Marner is the most compressed of George Eliot’s novels. At times it reads like a fairy tale, albeit one in which the magical elements are revealed to be the workings of chance. This chance,...
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Humanitas Digitalis
If you read the times–any times that is, from the 12th to the 21st centuries–literate humanity, and its grab bag of self-conscious preoccupations (i.e. the humanities) is ever unravelling. Some learned...
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What Might Be Whole the Light
We’re probably just born like this. Fractured. Missing a piece or two. A few Lincoln Logs short of a home, a couple of shafts shy of a full Erector Set. For the bargain, though, we gain a knack for...
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A Video Essay
As a medium the video essay presents the artist with some interesting rhetorical tools, but, although I appreciate its grab bag of sights and sounds, its registrations present nothing new. The impulse...
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Documentary Achievements
Strong documentaries wrestle with reality Greco-Roman style, looking for the right grip, the proper leverage to pin their opponents to the mat. (If you don’t like my combative analogy feel free to swap...
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Greetings from the Teutonic Spring
Admittedly, it’s taken me some time to find my rambling voice again. Some of it was just good old fashioned rust: my servos and articulators were all dusty and orange from disuse. And some of it was...
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Palimpsests – Writing Over Marx
Within the humanities, palimpsests have become a popular metaphor for describing the movements of history. The present rewrites the past imperfectly with the tools at hand, while the past survives in...
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Telling Stories Digitally
So far this month I’ve received 5 faculty notifications announcing “Digital Storytelling Workshops” from the two schools I’ve adjuncted for in the last few years; I won’t be attending any of them. Not...
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Academic Conceit
The Forward The idea for this “paper” grew out of my video work (here and here) for a seminar I took with Alex Juhasz: specifically, from her questions about the assertions I made regarding theory,...
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