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Print/Screen
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Victorian Materialisms, Crip Realities
Raised-text print in the 19th century transformed literacy, reading practices, media representations of blindness, medical and journalistic discourse, and, most importantly, the everyday lives of blind people.
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Audio Companions
Some years back, the cultural critic Stephen Metcalf noted, in a smart review of a new essay collection by David Sedaris, that we turn to radio for companionship. Companionship might appear to be …
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The Great LOLCat Massacre
Recently, for work, I read through 10 years’ worth of the New York Times best-seller list and noticed a strange phenomenon. Since December 17 …
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Books after the Death of the Book
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach. The title …
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The Selfie-Taker and the Dictionary-Maker
Soon after John Simpson was hired as an editorial assistant at the Oxford English Dictionary in 1976, he took on the task of documenting new meanings of old …
