I am slowly losing it. I think that is why this memoir is doubly important. First, it is a snippet of a slowly fading experience. A part of a whole; something like the ruins of a civilization that lived centuries ago. Have you ever wondered how the discovery of a foundation buried deep beneath the […]
Dissertation as Parables
Workshop on ‘Making Stories: Dissertation as Parables‘ at the Northeast STS Graduate Student Conference – Making Do: Muddling Through to Dissertation (Troy: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 11-13 March 2016). Abstract: Dissertations are not just analytic accounts of an empirical case study that enable extensions of disciplinary knowledge. They are stories of struggle, making do, tinkering, and most of all an account […]
The Search for Homo Naturales
Humans, pure and unadulterated, are probably extinct. All you find now is a copy of a copy of a copy. In fact, it is a lot easier to find a map of a human than to find their traces. When I started my search, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) had already put them on the […]