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technophobos.bsky.social
kate metcalf
@technophobos.bsky.social
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science studies phd candidate @ ucsd | hermeneutics of postgenomic suspicion | surveillance & sociality | genetic data, research infrastructure, privacy
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as a profile i think it's somewhere in the not-great to bad spectrum, but someone being this thoroughly intimidated by a cultural critic is like riotously funny to me
On the first day of class, Emre plans to give her students a poem without a name or date and instruct them to analyze it. "Oh!" she exclaimed suddenly, grinning ear to ear. "This would be a fun exercise. I'm going to show you my poems, and you can tell me what you think." She pulled them up on her laptop, and my mind immediately went blank, unable to form even the most rudimentary appraisals about verse or meter. "This one sounds, um, contemporary?" I said. She nodded encouragingly. "Notice anything else? Look at the last word of every line." Her hazel eyes probed me expectantly. "Can you count the syllables on each line?" Beads of sweat rolled down my forehead in the heat of Emre's dining room. "Are you uncomfortable?" she asked, four poems in. "We don't have to do it if it's not fun."
August 24, 2023 at 9:13 PM
technophobos.bsky.social
I love her
Self portrait with orange curly hair on front of a painting of a woman with orange curly hair
July 12, 2023 at 1:37 AM
technophobos.bsky.social
reading sandra mitchell like borges poetics
Text reads: TABLES: 2.1 Horizontal Transfer; 3.1 All 2^2^k=16 Boolean functions for binary elements with k=2 inputs; 5.1 Natural necessity mirrors logical necessity; 6.1 Sherman's levels of analysis; 6.1 Where conflict occurs. FIGURES: 1.1 Argument structure of the book; 3.1 Directed arrow graph for the case k=n-1; 3.2 A switching network can be transformed to represent a network of honeybees
July 8, 2023 at 4:02 AM
technophobos.bsky.social
a treat to go to the palm springs art museum--i've routinely thought of this piece (Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Side Profile of David Theodore) since i first saw it a few years back, nice to visit
a painting of a black cowboy in a white hat and red shirt on a canary yellow background
July 7, 2023 at 2:51 AM