Browsing the archives for the Pop Apocalypse category

From Google Goggles to Omni Science

23 Dec, 2009 in Pop Apocalypse by Lee

Google has created an interesting new product for Android-based mobile devices called Google Goggles, which allows you to do visual searches based on images your phone’s camera captures.  Needless to say, this is just one more step on the long road to the visual search revolution, as described in Pop Apocalypse.  It’s all happening right [...]

The Broom of the System

3 Nov, 2007 in David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Pop Apocalypse, The Broom of the System, dissertation, hipster chapter, person chapter, postirony by Lee

I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal [...]

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Agented

28 Sep, 2007 in Pop Apocalypse, agent, postirony by Lee

In another deviation from academic matters–but not entirely–I’m now agented, and well-agented.
The interesting academic angle on this development comes from a conversation I had yesterday with Matt Jockers, a professor in the English department who does technology-related stuff. We talked about the possibility of building or developing some sort of social-networking application that I [...]

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Pop Apocalypse

21 Sep, 2007 in Pop Apocalypse, fiction by Lee

In the wake of the acceptance of my first novel Pop Apocalypse by a publisher, I’ve spent the last few weeks scrambling to find a literary agent. I’m learning a lot about the book publishing business in short order–ironically, more than I have ever learned in any of my academic literature classes–but am reticent [...]

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Much Nigher Than You Think

4 Sep, 2007 in Pop Apocalypse, fiction by Lee

You know that hypothetical situation I mentioned in my previous post, the one about my having at some point in the near future to think about what to do with this blog if I got Pop Apocalypse picked up by a publisher? Well, holy shit, it’s not a hypothetical situation anymore. I repeat, [...]

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The End (of the Summer) is Nigh

4 Sep, 2007 in Pop Apocalypse, Wipe That Smirk Off Your Face, academic, fiction, postirony by Lee

I’m back in San Francisco–blogging from the Que Tal cafe on Guerrero and 22nd. My long summer of traveling is finally at an end.
This has been perhaps my craziest and busiest summer on record. I spent two weeks in Singapore, two weeks in Jakarta, more than three weeks at the Ransom Center at [...]

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