Here’s how it worked: Well, it didn’t work, and it worked. Here’s the problem: smart phones connect us with the world and our friends, so…
In a post yesterday on The Parallax View and The Skin I Live In, I wrote Briefly, because I haven’t finished watching the one yet.…
Tomorrow’s the first day of Fall 2013 classes at Brooklyn College. If you teach college, you probably started this week too, and you likewise know…
by KARL STEEL Last Winter, Michael O’Rourke asked me to contribute to a Rhizomes special issue on Karen Barad (list of contributors here). I hesitated for…
by KARL STEEL Because Julia Carrie Wong has already destroyed David Brooks’ “A Nation of Barrel Fish Mutts,” my dog post can be nothing but a whisper…
by KARL STEEL First Quick Take: We here love how “deep time” humiliates our human pretensions. From my own deep time archive, from my distant…
by KARL STEEL Like others, I’ve been trying to get my head around the recent Duns SCOTUS1 ruling on patentable genes. Here’s Tim Morton, and…
Picture from the Met At the end of my annus mirabilis, I published a response essay in Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (ed.…
Analog Notes by KARL STEEL Last night, NYU held a celebratory roundtable for Carolyn Dinshaw’s latest book, How Soon is Now: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers,…
by KARL STEEL In Aristotle, Isidore, and a host of medieval encyclopedias, we learn that many worms and reptiles (creeping things) generate spontaneously, mostly from…
