The Money Chair I loved to tip-toe into my grandfather’s den and sit in the world’s most opulent seat- The Money Chair. Overstuffed and a deep green, this chair earned such an…
Category: Maps, Texts, and Networks
Dinosaurs eat data, humanists inherit the Earth
Apparently dinosaurs, data, and the digital is a thing around here, dear readers. If that is not your jam, the helicopter is still running. You can hop off this island right now. …
Place, Time, Maps
Made of Stars The stars and city lights melted together. At the top of the stairs, the lights looked like an urban model of spacetime, with the million twinkling spots bending and…
Oh, the Spaces You’ll Go!
Thomas is my Co-Pilot At 12pm on a hot August day I took my driving test, parallel parked like a champ, and earned my California Driver License. At 2pm that same day,…
How I Met Your MU/TH/UR: Playing with text
MU/TH/UR Issues Alien is my favorite movie. Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece of cinema hooked me immediately when I first watched it at maybe 10-years-old. The suspense! The action! The badassery! The acid!…
Around the World in 80 CTRL+Fs
Footnotes I have strong opinions about footnotes. I do not care if you judge my nerdiness, but I love a footnote. I especially love a footnote in a monograph. Endnotes are…fine, but…
Data-saurus
Cabaz-ssic Park I’m not sure what was bigger- the size of my eyes or the decibel reading of my eight-year-old squeal. It shimmered in the distance. The oasis in the desert. We…
Digital History, medium
Them’s fightin’ words Want to see academics get into a verbal brawl? Ask a group of humanists in your most affected naivete Elle Woods voices, “So, like, what is the definition of…
Tinker, Tanks, Social Media, Spy
By Cassie Tanks Spy Dreams My nose hovered above the glass. I leaned so close that the faintest traces of my breath condensed, gently distorting my view of erstwhile Cold Warrior and…
