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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
This short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Syllabus: Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
This is a syllabus for ENG 818, a graduate course at Michigan State University in Spring 2022.
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Ilana Gershon deposited Trump’s Appeal: Choosing Autocracy over the Committee on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
To understand Trump’s appeal, one has to first understand what kinds of general problems Trump might appear to be solving. Trump’s alternatives to commonplace workplace problems are welcome to some, anathema to others. Trump has gained his fame as a successful real estate mogul, so it is not so far-fetched to view him first and foremost as a bos…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
I’m wondering how the Commons might make use of this kind of micro-blogging: small posts that enable a user to think out loud about the issues they’re working on or things they’re wondering about. Perhaps we could separate these posts out and include them on user profiles in a way that creates a more personalized, and more regularly updated, environment?
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Nonvolitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoContribution to a volume reflecting on Tim Ingold’s recent interventions on the relationship between anthropology and ethnography “Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future”, edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Nonvolitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Contribution to a volume reflecting on Tim Ingold’s recent interventions on the relationship between anthropology and ethnography “Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future”, edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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Jefferson Pooley deposited James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoAn introduction to a new edition of James Rorty’s classic 1934 book Our Master’s Voice. The book presents a coherent and original theory of advertising. Its main tenet holds that the ad business can only be understood within the totality of the country’s economy and culture. The alternative—to treat the business of publicity as a “ca…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoAn introduction to a new edition of James Rorty’s classic 1934 book Our Master’s Voice. The book presents a coherent and original theory of advertising. Its main tenet holds that the ad business can only be understood within the totality of the country’s economy and culture. The alternative—to treat the business of publicity as a “ca…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoAn introduction to a new edition of James Rorty’s classic 1934 book Our Master’s Voice. The book presents a coherent and original theory of advertising. Its main tenet holds that the ad business can only be understood within the totality of the country’s economy and culture. The alternative—to treat the business of publicity as a “ca…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
An introduction to a new edition of James Rorty’s classic 1934 book Our Master’s Voice. The book presents a coherent and original theory of advertising. Its main tenet holds that the ad business can only be understood within the totality of the country’s economy and culture. The alternative—to treat the business of publicity as a “ca…[Read more]
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