The Banana Peel Project

The Banana Peel Project is intended to be more than a little strange.  Mixing metaphors and confusing genres are ways of making the world make a little less sense, of making the everyday seem a little ridiculous.  Shattering systems of thought into millions of glittering shards of senselessness and irony seems to me to be a great way to change perspectives and to reveal the meanings that normally appear to hold things together.

The writing here varies immensely from post to post, so go elsewhere if you’re looking for a blog with only one personality.  Sometimes wildly impressionistic, sometimes coldly analytical, the heterogeneity of BPP is symptomatic of my own struggle to find a voice, a toolkit, and a set of figures for thinking about human life and the experience of the self.

The thoughts, writings, and quotes that appear here are drawn from countless places, not all of which are explicitly referred to in my posts.  Those who contribute most powerfully and consistently to these ideas include Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault, Abbie Hoffman, and innumerable other feminists, postmodernists, and cyborg revolutionaries.

If you’re still curious about who I am or what I do, you can check out my slightly more detailed page at the UCSD Department of Communication.