-
A Faithful Approximation: E Pluribus Nullus Pt. II
In keeping with the theme begun in my last post, my entry today will continue to explore Anderson’s ‘imagined community’ as it relates to American military recruitment ads.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
Twitters tweeting: What's the point?
Two scrambled eggs, coffee, orange juice…delicious. 7:52 a.m.
banana…all mushed up. i hate eating like a toddler. 12:24 p.m.
chocolate milkshake and A TUNA MELT! makin’ serious progress. 4:47 p.m.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
Conflating Space: Street Art 2.0
This past Friday and Saturday, November 5 and 6, I attend two events in relation to the Irving Contemporary’s opening of Street Art 2.0. While inescapably positioned within their own institutional realities, both events raised issues surrounding the role of context, intention, and the formation of meaning, and activated positions of artist and audience (as viewers and interpreters) in their prospective ways.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
E Pluribus Nullus
E pluribus unum – “out of many, one”
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
Mining the Media
On October 13, 2010, I watched as a dirty, red, white, and blue cylinder slowly emerged from a hole that was only 26 inches in diameter. The first of the 33 Chilean miners was rescued – after spending 69 days trapped 2,300 feet underground. For me, it was that first live, global, news event – and I had witnessed it thousand of miles away, on television, from my comfortable couch in Washington, DC.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
Digitizing Foucault (Part 2 of 2)
When Foucault wrote about “technologies of the self” in the 1980s, he wasn’t thinking about technology in terms of the bits or bytes that might first come to mind for us now. However, as our lives and social interactions become more and more mediated by network technology, our digitized lives could indeed become sites of the self-formulation that Foucault was theorizing.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
The Future of Peer Review: Publication and the Humanities
gnovis is wrapping up the peer review process for our Fall 2010 issue. Is there a place for alternative forms of peer review in the humanities?
Category: The Gnovis Blog
-
Is the Net Working?
Almost a full year ago, while I was still an undergraduate at Dartmouth, I was given the assignment to create some new and original “ism” — some philosophical worldview that had never been thought of before. It was a daunting task. More intelligent, more creative, and more angst-ridden people have already formulated ideologies about nearly everything under the sun (and above it), and they’ve been doing so for centuries.
Category: The Gnovis Blog