Andrew Piper
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Life-Cycles
I like the way the levity of toilet paper makes it a good thing to think with, its unseriousness gives you pause, and thus time to think. It's like a material proxy for the internet... What I wanted to say though was that I what I liked was the way ... -
Disturbing
Ben, that video is deeply disturbing. And I'm trying to figure out why. It's disturbing, yes, because there is an arm walking around the screen; and it's disturbing because of its sexualization (with a nice bureaucratic twist that contain ... -
Re: Cursive Hand in a BlackBerry Field: A Poetics of the Lis...
Kate, this is a beautiful essay. I like the way you draw attention to the quantitative and the laborious at the heart of lists and notes, the way they point to various fields of work in the world. One thought I had while reading your piece was on the dif ... -
Re: Digital Ephemera and the Calculus of Importance
Hi Dan, Your attention to the calculus of archival practices is really interesting. It's also an eye-opening reminder to a literary historian like myself who works in a field that probably has far more than a 100-1 ratio of resource expenditure in t ... -
Re: Milk, Eggs, Arugula, Identity: The Grocery List in a Tim...
Hi John, Your attention to the grocery list as one of the most immediate and everyday spaces of writing that intersects a range of important cultural practices (cooking, globalization, etc.) strikes me as really important. As I was reading your piece, th ... -
Re: Media and Metamorphosis: On Notes and Books
Thanks John. But one of the things that I was drawn to was the way Goethe's notes, for example, are increasingly imagined to have the same audience as his "finished" works. That is one of the arguments of the period more generally, the in ...