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english, duke university

m.s.
comparative media studies, mit

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history of the book, digital poetry, dictionaries, digital humanities, medieval robots, media archaeology
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PROJECTS

Computers, Cut-ups & Combinatory Volvelles

Speaking of Rivers

Becoming Plant

Hacking the Academy

Logic of Sense

An archaeology of text-generating mechanisms from 17th-century baroque volvelles to digital poetry, designed as a combinatory text-generating mechanism itself. Submitted as my master's thesis at MIT. Completed May 2009.

A detournement of the archive of sound, video, poetic and critical responses to Langston Hughes' canonical poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Co-authored with Jonathan Peter Moore; draft version completed December 2009.

A digital essay magnifying a micro-moment in Nehemiah Grew's Anatomy of Plants (1682). Are plants animals? Are animals plants? How does the book (of the world) enfold both forms of life? Completed May 2010.

A simple permutation poem, and my submission to the Hacking the Academy project, which attempted to compile a digital humanities "book" of blog posts and other projects in one week. Done in one hour on May 28, 2010.

Imagining Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense in images. Planned for Summer 2010.

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