BECOMING DEVICES:
Technosexual Assemblages of Cybernated Flesh, Erotic Circuits, and Queer Becoming
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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 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…
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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 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.