KUNGGUR kanggar!: A landscape of Manchu onomatopoeias

Back in November, I was fortunate enough to join a panel of wonderful scholars, all of whom I deeply respect and admire, in the plenary session of the History of Science Society 2013 annual meeting in Boston. We were all talking, in different ways and using different media, about the importance of experimentation with the form of academic narratives about objects and the history of … Continue reading KUNGGUR kanggar!: A landscape of Manchu onomatopoeias

Carla NappiJanuary 7, 2014May 30, 2021

Essays

Histories of Failure

[Reposted from the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford, where this blog post originally appeared on 14 March 2013] Shhh. If you stand outside on an early spring day and you’re very, very quiet, and very, very still, you might hear it. Hiyong hiyong. You might have to close your eyes. I find that helps. Hiyong hiyong. I first heard this sound … Continue reading Histories of Failure

Carla NappiMarch 14, 2013May 30, 2021

Stories

Read to Me 2: The One Who Claws At His Names

[via Printculture] The wonderful Cabinet magazine hosted a performed bestiary one recent afternoon at the New Museum. For 4.5 hours, a small group of writers, artists, professors, curators, and others talked about a series of creatures in order from smallest (ant) to largest (whale). We each had 10 minutes. It was an absolute blast. To represent my creature, the phoenix, I wrote and read a short story based on … Continue reading Read to Me 2: The One Who Claws At His Names

Carla NappiJanuary 16, 2013May 30, 2021