Lee Konstantinou
I was reading the Wiki entry for William Gibson, and I discovered at the end of the entry a link to the website /patternHunter [/ph]. If, like me, you have an obsession with really sophisticated science fiction and emerging techno-cultural patterns of change, this site is something like an endless feast of fun. I have … Continue reading /patternHunter [/ph]
I’m clearly too personally invested in the topic of my dissertation. I have found a lot of the ideas that I’ve been working on sneaking their way into this novel I’ve recently started writing–the book is rife with hipsters, ironic cool, searches for political sincerity in a hypermediated world, and an out of control celebrity … Continue reading Invasion
I have sent off a half-dozen copies of my pretty-much-complete colloquium paper to various readers. I am quite happy with how the process is coming. I am even managing to control my tendencies to write long, convoluted sentences with many relative clauses. More substance later, I promise. Continue reading And There Was Much Rejoicing
My colloquium paper overview is essentially finished. It magically shrunk from 15 pages of convoluted argumentation and allusion to a tightly written 6-page statement of direction for my dissertation. I am pleased with this. I may post it here soon. Meanwhile, my chapter breakdown is a big mess. I have about a million ideas and … Continue reading Breakdown
I have settled on, for now, the title by which my dissertation will be called by when it becomes a book. Because dissertations have to have different titles than the books they become, I will probably come up with some academic sounding title when I file in a few years. But when the thing comes … Continue reading I have a title
I talked with my advisor and with a friend of mine today about my first draft of the colloquium proposal. Both meetings left me feeling good about the state of my dissertation idea, although I also have come to feel that my writing is less disciplined than it should be. My main problem as a … Continue reading The Kitchen Sink
So, I’ve agreed with a friend of mine in the Modern Thought and Literature program here at Stanford to write a long scholarly manifesto on the concept of digital democracy and its prospects for our future. As part of this project I have started my first wiki. Holy moly. Wikis are very cool. I think … Continue reading I’m Wiki-fied
Speaking of postirony, and I’m sure you were, I went to a press screening of Noah Baumbach’s new movie The Squid and the Whale. It’s supposedly based on his childhood experiences of his parents’ divorce in Park Slope, Brooklyn in the 1980s and in a lot of ways it perfectly deploys a thousand points of … Continue reading The Squid and the Whale
I am back in the US. My trip abroad was all quite fun, but I’m glad its over. Enough fun and games, eh? So I’m hopefully going to get back to blogging on http://leekonstantinou.blogspot.com/ Update your bookmarks, Loyal Readers! Continue reading Back to Postirony
I was checking my credit card bills online today and I noticed that my MasterCard, which I haven’t been using all summer, has accrued a mysterious charge of $6.83 (for the second month in a row, perhaps for more months even) from Pollo Rey, Stanford, CA. A quick Google search revealed that this is nothing … Continue reading And Now I’m Really Pissed!