Here’s my thesis, relevant for any fan of cyborg studies: Fellow Sorcerers PDF
Abstract
Beginning in the industrial revolution and possibly before, the balance of animal life has tipped away from a state of autonomy to a state of subjection and suffering under the influence of the human. The ‘Anthropocene,’ a geological era characterized by the complete dominance…
Well-known champion of sustainable food and a commonsense approach to eating Michael Pollan recently ran a piece in the New York Times called Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch. In this article, he argues that cooking shows, with a particular eye those aired on the Food Network, have…
FourSquare has recently been described by bloggers as the next great micro-updating service – a geolocative platform that could compliment and even overcome Twitter. Some are even guessing that with its built-in impetus to visit local businesses, it may…
Photography on Flickr is clearly tied into the overall tradition of vernacular or amateur photography. Where the introduction of the Kodak-Eastman camera in 1888 brought the means to create photographs to a huge segment of the population, the internet gave a huge segment of the population the ability to market…
Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belize, home of jaguars, manatees, and the largest nesting grounds for sea turtles in Belize, and contains the only spot along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef where the reef hits the shore and exposes a rocky outcropping of fossil corals from the Pleistocene. It has been embroiled…
In 2004, after researching the allometric growth of antlers between extinct and extant deer, trapped deep within the dungeons of my university’s vertebrate collections, I whizzed over to the Wikipedia entry on the Irish Elk, sure I could add my two cents to the article. When I arrived I saw…