It is not uncommonly said that habitats generated by internal combustion engines and electronics lack the crowds of animals common to what are often called…
Hi gang! Years back, I submitted a Frankenstein’s monster of a couple conference papers for a collection to be called Fragments toward a History of a Vanishing…
Day 1 The first class covered the following topics: A recommendation of several books and scholars, including Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, Leslie Kordecki’s book on…
This Thursday I’m flying from Paris to State College, PA, for Robot Weekend: Being Human Gizmos,” where I’ll do my wormy song-and-dance. The conference starts with Anthony Clarvoe’s…
gain: so. I know others can teach 5 classes, raise a family, and publish a great blog and an awesome book (which I’m reading now…
To mark the occasion of being on the verge of sending my book manuscript into the great unknown, and as a kind of prayer for…
By now, you’ve probably all seen Obama’s fly-killing prowess. You may have also heard about PETA’s much-mocked response: But now People for the Ethical Treatment…
(Okay, so I’ve been writing. And reading. And standing to the side, just over here, watching our blog get along fine. Good! Warning: what follows…
Speaking of Science Fiction writers, last week, Matthew Chrulew (who, so far as I can determine, is a doctoral student at Monash University) did me…
After Kzoo, I wrote a post reevaluating my thoughts on animals. A revised version of the reevaluation became my diss’s conclusion–epilogue, rather, as that sounds…
