I just participated in a workshop devoted to histories of transmission and circulation . Almost every one of us framed our papers with the phrase “Please do not circulate.” [The idea here is to click on the … Continue reading Exploded View Diagram 1: Please do not circulate.
I want, here, simply to write. Briefly. Clearly. Sincerely. Daily. Motivated by that desire, I offer the Exploded View Diagram series in a spirit of sharing and communication, of openness to the unpolished, of celebrating in-progress-ness, of following connections and connectivity, of agonism’s antonym. This is an attempt to create a space for articulating and disarticulating some of the pebbles in the soil from which … Continue reading Exploded View Diagram: Introducing A Series
The next two posts are going up in the next installment of the Translating Recipes experiment for The Recipes Project! You can check out the fairy tale here: Translating Qing Recipes 3: Fairy Tale Drugs Translating Qing Recipes 4: The Girl, the Scorpion, and the Doctor Continue reading Translating Recipes: Fairy Tale Dugs
In the spirit of experimenting with media, I recently wrote an academic essay on Twitter. Because why not? Let’s play a little with form. Rather than writing it ahead of time and posting it after-the-fact in 140ish-character chunks (that seemed contrary to the spirit of the medium, which is about immediacy and simultaneity of writing/reading and nowness and against significant editing) I published each set … Continue reading The Historian and the Etymologist: An Experimental Twitter Essay
Carla Nappi 