Walter Benjamin

  On April 17 we had a roundtable discussion on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” here at FAU.  I learned a lot from this event and am leaning evermore towards this presentation format, especially as opposed to the single-authored paper recitation/reading that dominates the MLA.

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“Power Zoom”

In January 2012, the Graduate Student Digital Assembly at the University of Florida invited me to participate in their symposium, “Digital Platforms and the Future of Books,” which turned out to be a rich and rewarding discussion about metadata, digital publication formats, augmented reality, and the future of the reading interface. My talk, “Power Zoom: Reading […]

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