James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
"television is reality, and reality is less than television"
October 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"television is reality, and reality is less than television"
Update: I’ve placed a new entry in the “embarrassing” tier (but he does at least have the right footwear)
September 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Update: I’ve placed a new entry in the “embarrassing” tier (but he does at least have the right footwear)
Just received SJSU School of Information’s 2025 Research Excellence Award 😊🏆☺️🏆
September 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Just received SJSU School of Information’s 2025 Research Excellence Award 😊🏆☺️🏆
🌊🌊🌊 I've arrived at #4S2025 - and found out my panel was rescheduled!
🌊🌊🌊 Come check out OCEANS OF DATA
🌊🌊🌊 10:40AM tomorrow, Saturday Sept 6
🌊🌊🌊 Summit (Convention Center) 331
🌊🌊🌊 Come check out OCEANS OF DATA
🌊🌊🌊 10:40AM tomorrow, Saturday Sept 6
🌊🌊🌊 Summit (Convention Center) 331
September 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🌊🌊🌊 I've arrived at #4S2025 - and found out my panel was rescheduled!
🌊🌊🌊 Come check out OCEANS OF DATA
🌊🌊🌊 10:40AM tomorrow, Saturday Sept 6
🌊🌊🌊 Summit (Convention Center) 331
🌊🌊🌊 Come check out OCEANS OF DATA
🌊🌊🌊 10:40AM tomorrow, Saturday Sept 6
🌊🌊🌊 Summit (Convention Center) 331
Here's the info on our 4S panel, "Oceans of Data"
(ft. Hannah Tollefson, Owen Stewart-Robinson, Marie Lecuyer, and Rob Arcand)
(ft. Hannah Tollefson, Owen Stewart-Robinson, Marie Lecuyer, and Rob Arcand)
July 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here's the info on our 4S panel, "Oceans of Data"
(ft. Hannah Tollefson, Owen Stewart-Robinson, Marie Lecuyer, and Rob Arcand)
(ft. Hannah Tollefson, Owen Stewart-Robinson, Marie Lecuyer, and Rob Arcand)
‘Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral).’
July 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
‘Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral).’
“The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real.”
-Baudrillard
-Baudrillard
July 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real.”
-Baudrillard
-Baudrillard
RIP Hulk Hogan. I tried to find the famous tweet where he thought Bam Margera was dead but I found something much stranger instead
July 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
RIP Hulk Hogan. I tried to find the famous tweet where he thought Bam Margera was dead but I found something much stranger instead
Mom knows I like heavy metal 🥺
July 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Mom knows I like heavy metal 🥺
The democrats are going to commission a $500 million study on why this message didn’t resonate with voters
June 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The democrats are going to commission a $500 million study on why this message didn’t resonate with voters
"lossless compression entails a certain amount of philosophical cynicism ... it assumes nothing will ever alter the basic encoding of the world, even as the surface effects of encoded objects shift from one shape to another."
-Galloway and LaRivière, 2017
Cue the "nothing ever happens" meme
-Galloway and LaRivière, 2017
Cue the "nothing ever happens" meme
June 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"lossless compression entails a certain amount of philosophical cynicism ... it assumes nothing will ever alter the basic encoding of the world, even as the surface effects of encoded objects shift from one shape to another."
-Galloway and LaRivière, 2017
Cue the "nothing ever happens" meme
-Galloway and LaRivière, 2017
Cue the "nothing ever happens" meme
Bill de Blasio was the best NYC mayor of my lifetime
June 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Bill de Blasio was the best NYC mayor of my lifetime
Look what came in the mail 👀
May 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Look what came in the mail 👀
When they ask me to review a book not knowing I have a polemic on some adjacent topic just waiting to be unleashed
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When they ask me to review a book not knowing I have a polemic on some adjacent topic just waiting to be unleashed
What would Miyazaki think about this horny Totoro mural on the side of a smoke shop
May 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What would Miyazaki think about this horny Totoro mural on the side of a smoke shop
today both deepseek and chatgpt failed me on the relatively simple task of calculating average wordcount among entries on an annotated bibliography
March 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
today both deepseek and chatgpt failed me on the relatively simple task of calculating average wordcount among entries on an annotated bibliography
Just stumbled on this meme I made in 2018.
How small-minded I was, thinking our next great tragedy would “only” be as significant as 9/11, instead of the 1.5 million (and counting) Covid death toll, which is like five 9/11s
…I was right about the economy though
How small-minded I was, thinking our next great tragedy would “only” be as significant as 9/11, instead of the 1.5 million (and counting) Covid death toll, which is like five 9/11s
…I was right about the economy though
February 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just stumbled on this meme I made in 2018.
How small-minded I was, thinking our next great tragedy would “only” be as significant as 9/11, instead of the 1.5 million (and counting) Covid death toll, which is like five 9/11s
…I was right about the economy though
How small-minded I was, thinking our next great tragedy would “only” be as significant as 9/11, instead of the 1.5 million (and counting) Covid death toll, which is like five 9/11s
…I was right about the economy though
Got a hardcover copy of “Perspectives on Paradata” from the press this weekend. Contains the last work I cowrote with the late Ciaran Trace before she passed 🥺
February 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Got a hardcover copy of “Perspectives on Paradata” from the press this weekend. Contains the last work I cowrote with the late Ciaran Trace before she passed 🥺
