Category Archives: mcluhan

Digital Humanities

Posted on December 29, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A friend emailed me Feisal G. Mohamed’s response to Fish’s recent discussion of digital humanities. Here’s my response. I think there’s two basic genealogies to digital humanities/technology studies. Reductive? Sure. But helpful. The first traces back to Heidegger’s “Question Concerning … Continue reading →

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Toward Kair-erotically Thinking Techno-Determinism

Posted on May 3, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I spent the morning today doing some reading/writing on my Computers and Writing presentation, which will deal explicitly with how social media played a role in diagnosing and dealing with my daughter’s cancer. One article that I read today was … Continue reading →

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McLuhan and Baseball

Posted on July 18, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying a re-reading of McLuhan’s Understanding Media; I wanted to share this paragraph on baseball. McLuhan articulates something I have felt without being able to express for sometime. I think my interest in sabermetric evaluations of defense … Continue reading →

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