Posts Tagged ‘butterfly effect’

Shakespeare Factoid of the…Year?

I’m visiting home for spring break and a job interview. While sleeping on the couch very early this morning, my mother dropped what she called an “interesting fact” on the table next to me. Upon waking, I read this (apparently from a “Fact-a-Day” calendar, dated Wednesday, January 28th): It is believed that Shakespeare was forty-six [...]

Governance and Social Media (Digital Superstructure pt. 1)

I was picking through two old posts, one about the disembodied nature of empire and the other about the shifting nature of political/economic/social authority on a global level, and I started to think about how to apply my older thoughts on such things to my current interest in social contract theory and the growth of [...]

Motrin and Such

The last day or so has featured a flurry of Motrin (yes, the pain reliever)-related activity on the Twittertubes. I was working at the library most of yesterday, so I avoided keeping up with the madness. I didn’t know what was happening, and I figured that I’d savor that and wait to find out today. [...]

Why We Can’t Stand Still

My instructor in my Modern Political Theory class was discussing how political theory, like any good idea, is generally applied retrospectively to a given situation. We aren’t usually able to see patterns until after the fact. Not that this makes theory worthless, of course; we gain a greater appreciation of what has happened, and we [...]

Monopoly

The past three weeks have been spent very actively working on investigating and monopolizing my digital self. I feel as if I’ve wasted far too much time as it is. The diagram below is where I will be working on my presence in the months to come. If this is all very strange, it’s because [...]