Jeff Vandermeer called me an “arrogant ass” on Twitter yesterday. What an arrogant ass. Have you never read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”? — Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) September 4, 2018 This was in response to my new piece in Unwinnable, where I discussed the relationship between Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Vandermeer’s novel, Annihilation. I’m not really sure why … Read more
If you have spent any time on social media in the last couple weeks, you have surely seen the news that FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is trying to roll back net neutrality (the Obama-era regulations that govern the internet as a Title II utility). While various opinion leaders on both sides of the aisle have … Read more
Since its inception, the sounds of hip hop were inherently tied to geography and space. The deep, rolling basslines of the west coast g-funk classics pioneered by Dr. Dre were fundamentally different from the grimy beats and kung fu samples produced around the same time by RZA in New York. The dirty trap sound started … Read more
When I began browsing Reddit in 2008, or so, I never knew it would become such an important part of my academic career. What was once a hobby and a source of information quickly became a vital site of analysis for my PhD work, and eventually the primary source material for my dissertation. However, as … Read more
If you are interested in Reddit, politics, GamerGate, check out my AMA with the Reddit community about my dissertation. I’m called a Nazi at least once!
You can find a copy of my dissertation here: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1719155030?pq-origsite=gscholar. You can also download a copy from my website here: http://blog.noahspringer.com/publics-and-counterpublics/