John Logie’s new book, Peers, Piracy and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates, is now out from Parlor Press. I’m interested to see that the author and publisher have chosen to carry on Lessig’s publication model from Free Culture: the … Continue reading
Miss Frizzy says I have to tell you five things about myself that you probably don’t know. I usually try to escape memes because they’re too easy, but this one is quite hard. I think I’ve told you everything that’s … Continue reading
Oh, the blessing and curse that is the “keep new” feature in Bloglines. It means that I’ve cluttered up that place with all sorts of good stuff, some of it a year old now. It’s all links that I meant … Continue reading
We didn’t decorate the first Christmas we lived together. The end of the semester had been unusually busy, since we were finishing up our PhD program applications on top of the usual coursework and grading busyness. I took off for … Continue reading
1. Read a bunch of E.B. White. I didn’t mean to haul off and do a survey. I just found a copy of Writings from the New Yorker, and then when I finished it I dug out my copy of … Continue reading
I woke up way late this morning because it was so dark at 9:30 that I thought it was 7:30. I was in a bad mood because I had managed to whap my right foot on a steel cabinet and … Continue reading
Back in August, a bunch of us made new school year resolutions. I happened upon mine while digging through the archives this morning, and I’m running about 60/40. 1. Write incrementally. Heh. Maybe a semester devoted to the big blurt … Continue reading
Another thing we did Friday evening was go to the library to pick up some point-to-point and interlibrary loan orders. (I ordered Irving’s The Cider House Rules, A Coney Island of the Mind by Ferlinghetti, Flannery O’Connor’s letters, and The … Continue reading
I was sitting in the afternoon light yesterday, stirring a bowl of frosting, when it suddenly sunk in that I never have to take another test again! There’s gauntlets aplenty in the academic life, but no more in this particular … Continue reading
I’m ABD! I’d like to thank my rockin’ reading group, my patient committee, my supportive family and friends, and most of all Mister Husband, who put up with all of my angsty, angsty angst for the past few months. I’ll … 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.
