If any of you are familiar with Saturday Night Life, you might have seen the recurring sketch, MacGruber, which started as a parody of the classic show MacGyver. It soon became its own oddly hilarious thing, and the theme song has been stuck in my head ever since I started reading McLuhan. I tweaked the…
Wiener & Kittens, Shannon & Weaver
Hello my lovelies, After a couple days of bright sun and blissfully warm temperatures, the Tulsa weather has reverted to its preferred status of dreary cold. That, as usual, means that I hole up in my apartment with a warm beverage and try to do homework/waste time online/eat leftover chocolate cake/blog random and ridiculous things.…
Enzenberger and Habermas
A second week of readings for honors comes and goes, and despite ever-present confusion, I feel like I am grasping the material better as we go along. Certainly having more familiarity with the Neo-Marxists and their positions has helped. Habermas begins with a discussion of the public and private domains as they developed in the…
Should be beautiful this time of year in Tulsa, all that snow and everything…
Everything here is covered in strange, powdery, white stuff that seeps into my socks and makes my feet cold and wet. But it sure looks pretty from inside a warm apartment… and all I can think of is Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMt0IdeWowk] Should be beautiful this time of the year in Vermont Tulsa,…
Benjamin, Arendt, and Issues in Digital Archiving
While more intelligible than the Adorno and Horkheimer reading last week, Walter Benjamin’s articles, “The Author as Producer” and “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” for this week are still rather confusing and riddled with terms that seem charged for Benjamin but remain enigmatic to me. In “The Author as Producer” he repeatedly refers…
Hello UNIVERSE!
WordPress likes to start your blogging experience with an automated entry, saving you the time and energy of creating the all-powerful, terrifyingly intimidating, and supremely momentous FIRST ENTRY. Well WordPress, I’ll take your first entry and raise you one. Instead of “Hello world!” it’s “Hello universe!” Instead of a simple, one-line declaration of a first…