君子不器
No one I know who studies literature for a living (quite a few people) does so because they really love reading and writing about novels, poetry, etc. This has been my sneaking suspension for the past 15 years in this profession and it seriously bums me out sometimes. I have yet to hear a local…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – text, glosses and concordances Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Tolkien-Gordon, Davis 1925, 1967
Call for Papers “In a co-authored monograph, media theorist Alexander Galloway retells the story of how Hermes kills the hundred-eyed, all-vigilant Argus: the arch-messenger just keeps talking and talking on end, about the invention of the reed pipe, and slowly the giant’s eyes close out of fatigue. “Argus,” as Galloway has it, “was bored to…
Project MUSE – Configurations-Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2017 Free Issue of this excellent journal: Articles Dream of an Unfettered Electrical Future: Nikola Tesla, the Electrical Utopian Novel, and an Alternative American Sociotechnical Imaginary | pp. 1-27| HTML | Download PDF …
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture Call for Papers for ‘walking’ issue Why do we walk? Walking traverses boundaries of the physical, political, artistic, narrated, literary, and psychological, and can be deployed as a complex practice in an increasingly digitised world. In this issue, we examine the contemporary practices and representations of walking. We…
Speculative fiction and new forms of art and storytelling and innovations in technology and computing are engaged in the work of mad scientists: testing future ways of living and seeing before they actually arrive. We are the early warning system for the culture. We see the future as a weatherfront, a vast mass of possibilities…
Confessions of a Watch Geek …In October, my feelings of dread spiked, so I decided to buy a Rolex.