The semester ended without much fanfare for me–I only had one class and there wasn’t a specific final project for it, just a series of close readings of important texts in Materiality and Actor-Network Theory. It was one of the best classes I’ve taken, as it had a fairly light load of reading, but the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘dissertation’
February 3, 2009
New Problems, New Projects
This summer I will be joining Benjamin Porter’s team at the site of Dhiban in Jordan, excavating and doing some of that lovely digital documentation that comprises my dissertation. This is a pretty big change, as I’ve been digging at Catalhoyuk for the last three years, but it’s a very welcome change. Catalhoyuk is such [...]
May 14, 2008
Superstitious
I’m not a “spiritual” person and I don’t believe in ghosts or horoscopes (though finding out that my advisor is a metal dragon–mechagodzilla–in the Chinese system was pretty hilarious), but I really can’t resist a good fortune cookie.
I passed my orals!
The one piece of advice that I never got, but that I will now try [...]
March 12, 2008
Benjamin, McLuhan, Foys
As we experience the new electronic and organic age with ever stronger indications of its main outlines, the preceding mechanical age becomes quite intelligible. Now that the assembly line recedes before the new patterns of information, synchronized by electric tape, the miracles of mass-production assume entire intelligibility….What will be the new configurations of mechanisms and [...]
December 17, 2007
Io Saturnalia!
I wish I could be celebrating today in true Roman style, but I’ve still got too much work to do. I’ll have to do it up right next year by having a party. Friday, the day after the semester ends, I’ll be headed off to Colorado for an appropriately snowy Christmas, then back to [...]
October 21, 2007
Emplaced vs. Virtual Interpretation
Oof, gotta take a break from negotiating the “visual turn” in text. Sometimes I wish I could just make a film to show at my orals this spring. Anyway, I was chatting with a friend about the recent virtual worlds conference in San Francisco about the world of Second Life and other recreated [...]
