Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture

In my post of 15 March 2014 — The online Scholar: A guide for PhD students (#187) — I suggested a list of points for a researcher to consider as they integrate online media into their writing processes. I even ran a few workshops on...

The proto-architect Vitruvius described the importance of a clearing in the forest and the establishment of a fire around which people would gather for warmth and communion. The “hearth” established the siting and meaning of the “dwelling house,” and hence settlements and eventually towns and cities. I revisited that proposition in the recent post

I’m revisiting a sequence of three posts from February-March 2014: #184 Turning the corner, #185 Humanities in the wild, and #186

In 2014 some of us conducted experiments using an EEG headset for measuring brainwaves in human beings as they move through outdoor settings. Around that time I stumbled across a Star Trek episode called “Spock’s Brain.” I referenced the confluence between science fiction and emerging consumer-available neural headware in my post of 1 February 2014 #182 titled