Philosophy of Signage Followed By a Short Blogger’s Vacation

I will be starting a new job on Wednesday, 27 January and have decided to take a much-needed break starting today. This means no posts until Wednesday, 27 January at the earliest and Saturday, 30 January at the latest....

Posted by mistersquid on January 23, 2010 11:31 AM

Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text

Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...

Posted by mistersquid on September 17, 2009 9:47 PM

Strata-fication

Almost everyone has experienced a sense of increased power after acquiring a piece of new technology or learning a new skill. The acquisition of new capabilities through learning or artifacts are ways in which people (organisms) may extend the ranges...

Posted by mistersquid on February 24, 2008 8:57 AM

Damned spot

Three graduate students in philosophy have begun an anonymous blog where they have found the courage to decry the heartache that is their job market. There are a thousand things I'd like to cover regarding the protocol of the philosophy...

Posted by mistersquid on January 1, 2008 12:17 PM

The Postmodern Challenge

Today I was challenged to define postmodernism in ten words or less. I offered, proudly and tautologically, “Postmodernism is what comes after Modernism.” Pride and tautologies aside, a succinct definition of postmodernity is something I was reluctant to provide...

Posted by mistersquid on May 31, 2006 10:40 PM

Alas, Poor Horatio

Keeping the tradition of irritating my colleagues for their (and my) outmoded love of literature (and apropos of my somewhat insensitive interruption of  one of my colleague’s  accessing non-print media yesterday), I would like you to consider  an article...

Posted by mistersquid on March 23, 2006 12:00 AM

The Two Cultures: A Flame War

Over at  Slashdot a  thread regarding the submission of a junk science fiction novel to a vanity publisher  winds its way to the Sokal Affair, the Spring/Summer 1996 publication by  Social Text  of Alan Sokal’s “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward...

Posted by mistersquid on February 6, 2005 12:00 AM

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...

Posted by mistersquid on October 8, 2004 12:00 AM