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  If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

  May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Dangerous Minds | Take a creative writing course with William Burroughs

  So, you want to write but can’t afford those darned writing courses you see advertised online or in all those fancy cultural ‘zines you spend your hard earned dollars on? Well,…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? : The New Yorker

  A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for…

  February 24 2014, 6:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark 10 of the Greatest Essays on Writing Ever Written – Flavorwire

  If there’s one topic that writers can be counted on to tackle at least once in their working lives, it’s writing itself. A good thing too, especially for all those aspiring…

  December 22 2013, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 of the Greatest Essays on Writing Ever Written – Flavorwire

  If there’s one topic that writers can be counted on to tackle at least once in their working lives, it’s writing itself. A good thing too, especially for all those aspiring…

  December 13 2013, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

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  November 27 2013, 4:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Beat Writer’s Block | Public Seminar

  These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work all one has…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Projects Pyramid Schemes

  May 6 2013, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Hendrick's Lecture Series

  WILLIAM BURROUGHS and the TORSO MURDERER with Oliver Harris William Burroughs writes "...in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he…

  February 4 2013, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

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  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

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  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

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  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

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  Hacking Critical Theory

  February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments

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• Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…

  If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

  May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Dangerous Minds | Take a creative writing course with William Burroughs

  So, you want to write but can’t afford those darned writing courses you see advertised online or in all those fancy cultural ‘zines you spend your hard earned dollars on? Well,…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? : The New Yorker

  A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for…

  February 24 2014, 6:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark 10 of the Greatest Essays on Writing Ever Written – Flavorwire

  If there’s one topic that writers can be counted on to tackle at least once in their working lives, it’s writing itself. A good thing too, especially for all those aspiring…

  December 22 2013, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 of the Greatest Essays on Writing Ever Written – Flavorwire

  If there’s one topic that writers can be counted on to tackle at least once in their working lives, it’s writing itself. A good thing too, especially for all those aspiring…

  December 13 2013, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 27 2013, 4:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Beat Writer’s Block | Public Seminar

  These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work all one has…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Projects Pyramid Schemes

  May 6 2013, 3:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Hendrick's Lecture Series

  WILLIAM BURROUGHS and the TORSO MURDERER with Oliver Harris William Burroughs writes "...in this life we have to take things as we find them as the torso murderer said when he…

  February 4 2013, 3:25am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

  Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

  June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

  The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

  April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Hacking Critical Theory

  February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments

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