Downton Abbey doesn’t run on the American model, with a beehive of writers batting around ideas and dividing up the work; Fellowes writes the entire thing, which, this coming season, means seven episodes, two of which (numbers one and six) … Continue reading
Designer Paula Scher on the conditions for serious work. Most fascinating.
Not the existential pain of producing creativity and scholarship. No. I’m talking about the physical pain that comes from typing and mousework and sitting on one’s tuckus for hours and hours and years and years. It seems like at least … 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.
