Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'research'
Reorganizing This Movable Type Blog: Mistersquid Refreshed
Before returning to California after a 17-year adventure in the world of higher education (one that may not quite be done done), I restructured the way I was developing material for this blog. That restructuring was born of a...
Scripting Tag Clouds in MovableType
At the moment, I’m in the middle of proctoring the final examination for my afternoon American Literature survey (1918-present). Teaching a month into what is every other universities’ summer “breaks” (more accurately read “frenzied research period”) is one of the...
Spider-Face
--> This morning between midnight and 02:00 Eastern, I saw Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. 1 The film weaves together storylines from the Spider-Man comic book and graphic novel sagas (both largely unfamiliar to me).2 One story arc in the Spider-Man...
The Cruelest
The problem with dying folks is they don’t die immediately. They retreat, diminish, deactivate, reanimate as living dead. Once entombed, they come back, lurching parodies of human self possession. They are not in control of themselves, their muscles and being...
Stupid Me
Before getting yesterday carried away by a gushy, embarrassing tide of love for my former and future loves, I started with the observation thatEarlier this week I made a push to begin (I always begin at the beginning) my first...
Recombinant Media, Chapter 3
Writer Dwayne McDuffie, whose work is the primary subject of the third chapter of Recombinant Media, has expressed curiosity about what I've written. So, here is that third chapter and its notes for handy reference (the notes are included...
Prototype for a Black Cyborg Subject: A Tinderbox HTML Export Demonstration
In the middle of posting this entry, I found out that one of the writers of Marvel’s 1991 Deathlok series, Dwayne McDuffie, was considering purchasing my dissertation. I don’t even know what my royalty rate is. To be honest,...
Ain't This The Life?
On 12 April, CNN's Money Magazine published a hoot of an article ranking “The Best Jobs in America” in terms of “stress level, flexibility in work environment and hours, creativity, and ease of entry and advancement in the field.”...
Eyes Too Slanty?
The video above (21.2 MB and which you can watch by clicking on the picture above) was taken from Koji’s Cafe and can be found on a web page that provides a tutorial on how to use “Eye Talk” ....
Recombinating . . .
I’m in the process of revising the second chapter of Recombinant Media: the Mutation of Subjectivity in a Post-Print Culture. While I do intend to produce an artifact which my tenure committee will recognize as one that meets the...
Doctored . . .
Yesterday, near to 10:40 am EST, the present members of my dissertation committee congratulated me for successfully defending my dissertation “Recombinant Media: The Mutation of Subjectivity in a Post-Print Culture.” A bit of administrative paper work must be completed...
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