Last week I was gchatting with my friend A, one of my closest friends, someone I know from college. We gchat, text, facebook, tweet, all the time. But last week she asked me to send her some of my writing, … Continue reading
Dear Materialities of Writing, I used to write letters ALL the time, before the internet. I was a teenager in the early to mid-nineties, when there was internet–but none for me, until 1998. I’ve had this Stuff On My … Continue reading
I absolutely love sending and receiving mixed CDs — so I used this ‘signment as an excuse to compile a materialities/mail-related mix to send to you via this blog. Link to mix (it wouldn’t embed for some reason): http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Materialities+Mix/96473783 Rather, I … Continue reading
In sending something, you don’t just send it to the other person—you also send it away from yourself. This is especially true of handwritten correspondence through the mail. Unless you take a picture of it beforehand (do you guys do … Continue reading
First, I’ll tell you about the thing I did not do: I did not send a letter to my grandmother’s English cousin Beryl, who lives in Birmingham, the last, to my knowledge, of the English family that the American side … Continue reading
While the first year Comp. PhDs [5 total] were at C’s, we stayed with some friends of mine, a couple–Matt & Amy. Amy is a nurse, kind, yet outspoken. Matt is a high school English teacher, appreciates good beer, and … Continue reading
A final project I embarked upon last semester titled “Spectacles of the Studious Dead: A Gestural Abecedary” continues to haunt me. In letter V of my alphabetical arrangement of postmortem imagery, I delved into “Visuality” via close readings of Stan … Continue reading
I have underlined in the Nelson essay, on page 144, “Thus it may help integrate, for human understanding, bodies of material so diversely connected that they could not be untangled by the unaided mind.” and then I wrote next to … Continue reading
Cornelia Vismann, Files ∆ This nonerasable file […] remains the final threat for the functionaries of the Stasi apparatus. Their last and only hope is that their files may be canceled on Judgment Day, when our sins are erased (exaleiphein) … Continue reading
So I sort of went about this backwards. The latest single from tUnE-yArDs was released today, and I played it for my roommate (and suddenly no one is surprised that I made the Pitchfork Bot). Because neither of us could … Continue reading