no sense arguing with the digital humanities. They don’t really exist. This is the age of the managerial humanities

The animated GIF is a Brechtian medium

Microphones + Crooning + Nazis + Radio + Bing Crosby + $50,000 = Silicon Valley

MOOC’s only make sense if you don’t think about it too much

Jane Austen’s internet success isn’t so surprising

a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals

during this period, it was more common for digital animation to be emulated using hand-drawn techniques

Cars didn’t end up awarding us freedom, nor did they serve to better connect us to our friends and communities

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