The Demise of Naiveté

This time of year is always a mixed bag for me. I grew up in a largely Korean household which practiced no distinct holiday traditions. Christmas gift-giving was limited mainly to adults giving gifts to the children. The season...

Posted by mistersquid on December 20, 2009 9:53 AM

Aphasia

I was going to wait to write something about David Foster Wallace’s death, but after reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comment about him in the New York Times I understood that I have something to say now. She had said that DFW’s...

Posted by mistersquid on September 14, 2008 9:37 AM

elsewhere

I've decided to index, as much as I can, comments I make as mistersquid on the Internet. I will eventually add a subdomain that keeps track of such items, sort of like "'type = "Internet postings"' AND 'author = "mistersquid"'...

Posted by mistersquid on December 17, 2007 12:34 PM

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...

Posted by mistersquid on October 28, 2006 6:13 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

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