BECOMING DEVICES:
Technosexual Assemblages of Cybernated Flesh, Erotic Circuits, and Queer Becoming
-
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 M.O.). So, I went back to the beginning, dug through all of my dissertation notes and feedback from the last year hunting for anything that informed the most recent version, and organized the relevant parts into bullets. What became quickly evident in this exercise were…
-
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 and so forth. As discussed with my advisors this afternoon, there has been a lot of feedback that, frankly, I have struggled to assimilate. I do think I’m starting to get it though. I like writing big, high theory. I’m trying to be precise, but…
-
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 collection of tokens weighted by frequency of presence in the data set. When a certain word (here the various objects of study) are checked through as association engine (AI platforms are GREAT for this, but non-AI versions exist as well—thought that’s a sticky distinction!) the…
-
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 both as a way to reflect on my weekly dissertation progress with a little flexibility (there is great wisdom in the exhortation to “just write, anything”, though I will attempt to avoid self-indulgent poetics on this blog), and because it is a simple way to…
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.