Urban Honking

At its most basic level, the world’s soil falls into just twelve groups. Gelisols, Histosols, Spotosols, Andisols, Oxisols, Vertisols, Ardisols, Ultisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Inceptisols, Entisols—the Twelve Soil Orders sound to me like an alliance, sitting about a round table and dividing up the territory of the earth. Of course, as political battles tend to go, […]

It holds up! I want to start a new feature where we watch the beloved films of our youth. Like Clue!! Did you know that a certain co-blogger was so excited to see the additional endings in the theater that she wet her pants rather than miss a single moment by going to the bathroom? […]

I am a big Sigmund Freud fan. I taught him in both semesters of my class this year and just generally think he’s really onto something, except for all the penis stuff which frankly gets a bit old. Then again when you remember his time period you’re pretty impressed even with the penis stuff. So […]

The following is an excerpt from a talk by Graham Harman at the “Hello Everything” symposium. In it, Harman describes four methods for reversing common errors in failing to see objects. These methods are: counter-factuals, the hyperbolic method, simulation, and falsification. Each of them is an imaginative strategy for revealing the withdrawn core of objects, […]

I want to go home and work in the yard by “work in the yard” I mean “stand in the yard” and maybe also “look at the things I planted in the yard yesterday” and by “things” I mean “places where I put seeds that may become things in 10-15 days” Also by “stand in […]

This week, the net’s been exploding with responses to James Bridle’s work on the New Aesthetic. Bruce Sterling set the fuse for this particular conflagration with his Essay on the New Aesthetic in Wired. My own response, published in The Creator’s Project on Friday, was called What It’s Like to be a 21st Century Thing. […]

Wonderfully/hilariously, I am now working on a new lifetime project that deals with the themes of the very first seminar I ever took in graduate school, lo these many years ago. The seminar was SO awesome, but I was so confused and terrified I didn’t get much out of it. It was like, I was […]

Some spoilers!!! This movie is awesome, so if you haven’t seen it, don’t read this! This movie is one of the best explorations of mental illness and its slow encroachment I have ever seen. Or, as someone who is not mentally ill (knock on wood), it seems to be the most empathetic survey of the […]

When I was 5 I knew about You. Seven Wonders    

I like you I’m hungry I will make you a snack I don’t know how to cook Let me show you do you like avocado Yes it’s good I like things on crackers Here you go O this is delicious I’ll make you more sometime Let’s drive to Alpine OK Here we are O where […]