There are distinct advantages and disadvantages to working with digital media as opposed to traditional sources. Digital media are often easier to work with. They make things infinitely more searchable and easy to transmit. Thanks to the church’s efforts in digitizing old records, family history work moves at an unprecedented pace. Digitized books make enormous …

Somehow reacting to a blog post feels more like handling a rattlesnake than responding to an article, book, or poem published by an institution. I don’t expect to attract attention in either case, but a blog lives and breathes. The Internet is a fluid medium in a way that print has never been. That seems …

Growing up I loved to draw. I spent hours drawing things in front of me just as I perceived them. When I got to high school and my art teacher put Picasso’s drawing of Igor Stravinsky in front of the class upside down and told us to draw it, everything in me resisted. In my… Read More Perspective in Pieces

As disruptive as Mark Sample’s suggestion that Deformance should be regarded as a legitimate digital humanities undertaking, I simply couldn’t accept his proposition as adoptable. There are two broad reasons why. First, leaving the text means leaving academic inquiry. Second, deformance is merely performance, or maybe a better term might be reformance. To begin, humanistic studies …

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I got to around the part of Mark Sample’s article “Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities,” in which he states, “Reading backwards revitalizes a text, revealing its constructedness, its seams, edges, and working parts,” and then I scrolled to the bottom of the article and started to read it backwards. Obviously this is not what Strange…

I was reading Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities and I thought it was so weird. I am not reading a poem backwards. – I understand wanting to read literature in a way that finds unnoticed beauty. I understand turning the work into something new to explore it’s messages and ideas. I think it is so … Continue reading It Took Me a Little While

For me personally, I have had a few times in my life where I learn something that completely changes my way of thinking about something, and I’m left wondering what in the world I just read. This was one of those moments, where something I took as being one thing was told to me that …

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