Beyond the skills and knowledge with which the Narrative and Computational Text Analysis intensive equipped me, I found it a valuable space for orienting myself a little more within the interdisciplinary space which my work will have to occupy. It is so far the closest fit I have found to my own interests—for once, I […]

By now, I have a fairly clear idea of my topic area–I want to explore the idea of digital identity from two directions: first, as a network of story we “write” into digital spaces; second, as a digital object far beyond our comprehension and control. The first approach suggests that we can analyze things like […]

The running theme of my coursework, readings, and reflections during week three was identification and dissociation, othering and empathy. From Dr. Alexander’s discussions of the uncanny in Interdisciplinary Futures to the Edwin Merwin Bot in the Text Remix readings and material, I drew out a running thread of the power of language and story to […]

What I most want out of this program is focus. While my combination of writing, design, and programming seemed, from the outside, like a narrow focus in and of itself, I’ve found that I exist less in a reductive intersection of those three than in a multidimensional space created by layering and projecting them through […]

As the start of the year finds me with lots of early-stage ideas for my project but no strong impulse toward any one in particular, I thought it would be helpful to write down a bit about the disciplines and modes I do want to include in my project, if possible, then briefly discuss some […]