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Self Evaluation, Fall 2011

“It is man who is the content of and the message of the media, which are extensions of himself. Electronic man must know the effects of the world he has made above all things.” –Marshall McLuhan With this independent study I proposed to explore various forms of how “culture” is rendered, looking at the different ways of presenting, storing, sorting, searching, and perceiving types of...

Jan 3rd

So, what’s missing? Simply put, art school should be more fun for all involved. I want the spirit to be less one of attempting to please authority figures, and more one of trying to surprise oneself. I like the rebellious students. I find the combination of rebelliousness and hard work seems to make for the best artists (and students). ...

Dec 15th

“If you look up “Physical Computing” and “Human Computer...”

Dec 13th

what is a note if it’s never returned to?

Dec 1st

if not for exhibition then for what?

i want to equate tracing an image with tracing paper and pencil or pen to reblogging an image or piece of text. i’m at a loss for what happens to the traced image.

Nov 30th

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Without porcupines a platypus wouldn’t be the same.

Nov 27th

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not thinking about school is fun, too

Nov 27th

Reading is construction within a shared...

“No right is absolute and with every right comes responsibilities. The First Amendment gives every New Yorker the right to speak out–but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others–nor does it permit anyone in our society to live outside the law. There is no ambiguity in the law here–the First Amendment protects speech–it does not...

Nov 16th

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Q n' A

A thesis paper is structured like this: Question -> Answer -> Question -> ad inifinitum. My papers are structured like this: Proposal -> Question -> Evidence -> Question -> Suggestion -> Deduction -> Question….you get the point. There’s no answer leading to a new question. Is the human ecological process? I’m told that if I want to do graduate work...

Nov 14th

Seeing your reflextion in the river Styxx

academia does not exist, it is merely work which thinks it doesn’t exist. [why woman is a symptom of man: women are unbearable but without them life would be worse. “So, if woman does not exist, man is perhaps simple a woman who thinks that she doesn’t exist.” - Zizek] So what if as a man I’m attracted to other man the way Lacan is attracted to women? and. What if...

Nov 13th

Supported Self Direction--an experiment in over...

This is contingent upon an oversimplification: There are two sorts of Ivory Towers among the many. The sort that foster a self directed education and the sort that are filled with rails, leading to a specific track based education. For some reason or another it seems that the Ivory Town of which I am a part, one which professes a self directed education, seems to take “self...

Nov 13th

Notes On A Conversation With Eli And Virginia

Intent: This is a re-presentation of a conversation in which I attempt to reach a way of writing about the distortion of time and space in Robbe-Grillet’s In the Labyrinth and Last Year at Marienbad (with some help from Lacan and Žižek). How to talk about a novel and film within the same dialogue? Eli uses the word “re-presentation” as noun for paintings, films, and novels. Allowing him to...

Nov 8th

So what happens in the end? The Doctor is locked...

Yes. sharing. Yes. we all feel paranoia — that great big worry of failing to achieve (progression in thought). And in the “end” they lock the Doctor in the Pandorica. But he loves the universe so, especially us humans (dumb!) because we just keep going. In our parasitic nature there is always something more for us to conquer. In our attempts we ravage the path [creative...

Nov 7th

Re: Not to you dear Eli

I think this feeling of failing is perhaps less a result of any particular scholastic endeavor, but perhaps a side effect of the human condition? It makes me think about a scene from the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film) that I think of often, where Arthur confesses to Slartibartfast that “All my life I’ve had this strange feeling that there’s something big and...

Nov 7th

Jacques Lacan in Theory | Yale Literature Lecture →

Nov 7th

Not to you dear Eli

I am under the impression that I am failing to make use of a lot of words, such as metonymy, allegorical, etc in my writings and ideas. I am also under the impression that most of those around me are failing to use these words too (with the exception of your self). Do you feel like this as well? I think this is where a lot of my academic frustration stems from. Because we fail to use singular...

Nov 7th

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Lighthousekeeping, Winterson (67)

The door was his body. Winterson, Jeanette. Lighthousekeeping. Orlando: Harcourt, 2005. 67. Print.

Nov 6th

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Reading Human Ecologically

The efforts of reading Human Ecologically require texture or some tool set by or with which to navigate. These tools or textures needn’t necessarily be manifest in the terrain of the representation, they can be brought to the representation from outside of it. The representation is the “geography” which is being navigated in reading. On the most basic level all representation’s have a...

Nov 6th

Prof. Timothy Morton, Wayne Leys Memorial Lecture... →

Nov 5th

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The pursuit of unity and the shm’ah. – Declaration of a monotheistic system’s singularity.

Sep 12th