David Swick: A lot of people, though, feel that no matter how hard they try, they are not going to be happier. They feel they cannot overcome their problems. Alice Walker: That’s because they believe in trying rather than in … Continue reading
Among those things that can be otherwise are included both things made and things done; making and acting are different (for their nature we treat even the discussions outside our school as reliable); so that the reasoned state of capacity … Continue reading
Via Compatriot G, straight to my inbox and apropos of my interest in bots and agency. I’m filing it here so I can find it again.: “As Descartes pointed out in the Discourse on Method, genuine language must be inventive … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
