BECOMING OBJECTS:
Technosexual Assemblages of Cybernated Flesh, Erotic Circuits, and Queer Becoming
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Summer is Calling
At long last this lengthy semester draws to a close and I turn my full attention to drafting dissertation content. On 4/22/26 I was awarded the Outstanding TA Award by the Graduate School and GSA (yay!). I have also secured a teaching appointment for next Fall with two sections of COM-110, not the most exciting
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Prospects
There always seems to be more to do than there is time to do it. All the same, it has been another productive week for my dissertation work. I have reached out to several folks who inspired me over the last few months of presenting and discussing my work (some even with committee membership requests).
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Take a Deep Breath
[Updated 04/07/2026] Well, as usual, it has been a packed few weeks. But, at last, my self-imposed over-scheduling now draws to a close. This has been a week of reflection on the work I’ve done over the course of the semester, not just organizing events and attending conferences, but building out dissertation chapters and rethinking
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You, Dog.
It has been another balefully blustery day in the Windy City (I certainly see where we got the name). I had the immense privilege of sharing my presentation with the conference today: You, Dog: Pup Play, Mediated Identity, and Queer Becoming. (It went well!). The audience was receptive to my ideas and had a number
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Concision, the ever-present colleague and inseparable companion of Clarity
Relevant video: It’s a big week what with the CRDM Symposium: CIRCUIT BREAKERS happening this Thursday and Friday. So, out of necessity I’m making my weekly update post a little early so save on spoon consumption over the coming 36 hours. While Symposium planning has taken up a lot of my time over the past
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Eustress
My therapist introduced me to a new word this week: Eustress. It is the beneficial or motivating sort/level of stress rather than an overwhelming, constant, crushing kind. Lucky me, at the moment I’ve hit that sweet spot. I’ve got a lot on my plate for the month of March but this has helped frame and
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The Funnel (of Love)
This week I’ve been a lot about the research funnel (see above). Relevant video: The suggestion was to list out all of my research claims, sort them from broadest to most specific and then start cutting to try and dial in the appropriate level for a dissertation sized research question. (This is not my typical
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It has, in fact, been a week.
A jam-packed week for me. As with most things, there are a lot of moving parts. Dissertation wise, I’ve been pondering the feedback I’ve received and considered how to move forward. I have gone back to look over comments and feedback from throughout the process, as well as many of my notes, draft versions, sketches
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Visualizing Objects of Study
These have been lingering in my dissertation folder for a while now. I may have shared them early on in the process, but I felt they were worth returning to now. What do these clouds say? Word clouds are a fascinating form of data visualization. It allows a text corpus to be rendered as a
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What a Friday the 13th!
It is already a busy semester, with Student Association, Symposium Planning, Teaching, Research, Writing, attempting to have a social life, looking for jobs and funding in the coming months, applying for conferences and awards. I’m sure I could go on. But, we endure and persist. A blog, really? I decided to set up a blog
About this Site
This site will serve as a documentary archive for weekly updates on the composition process, as well as a repository of building work for the Critical Making aspects of the project.
About Luke C. LeGrand
Luke C. LeGrand is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University.