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There are certain technical words in every academic discipline which soon become stereotypes and even clichés. Every academic discipline has its technical nomenclature. You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It is the word maladjusted. This word is probably used more than any other word in psychology. It […]

I’ve finally updated my books page with a review/analysis of Charis Thompson’s fascinating study of assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs). Her 2005 book, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies contains some incredible insights into the nature of technology and human subjectivity, and amazingly (for a student like me) some really cool ideas about […]

Answering leaves

To me
And only to me, of course
It falls on me funny, that
Today I have returned to find
…..Vibrating
…..Twirling
…..Percolating
…..Swimming
Not a single leaf
Just a great golden horseshoe
Glimmering across the ripples
Just like the sky
And this time, of course
As I came, consciously searching, for white noise
It fell on me, that
All the white, loud, thundering static of water
Glitters silently beside all […]




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