Have returned from STS in New York, only to find my blog, left unattended in my absence, deflated, its text having shuffled off this diurnal coil to the archival firmament. This seemed a cruel fate, hence this post, a digital finger (hah!) in the dike of the relentless time-stamped posterity of calendar and clock cycles (all of which is a fancy way of saying that I've retained the default setting of seven days for keeping posts alive on the front end of this thing).
Pretty trivial stuff, I know. Like most everyone, I've been watching a lot of TV and reading a lot of coverage on the Web, my daily surfs a sandstorm of this and this and this and this . . .
If I feel like I have something worthwhile to say or contribute I'll put it here.
Posted by mgk at March 26, 2003 11:28 PMA little scattered, as you might expect. First day, when Kari and I both gave our papers, was rainy and cold and under-attended, but concluded with a rollicking session with papers from Robin Schulze (who pinpoints the problem afflicting academic literary studies) and David Greetham (telling textual tales out of school from the High Court of the Chancery). Second day got off to a great start with a keynote panel featuring Johanna Drucker, Marjorie Perloff, and Charles Bernstein (who spoke about audio: all hail Nipper, the name of the dog in the phonograph logo). Also good sessions by Claire MacDonald (featuring her journal Performance Research, Bradford Paley (of www.textarc.org), and Tom Beller (of www.mrbellersneighborhood.com). Jerry McGann and Hans Walter Gabler rounded things off with a brace of papers on electronic textuality, but we skipped out of the sweltering room after Jerry's half of the proceedings. Conference banquet that night, followed by drinks with friends at the Algonquin. Third day sessions were moved uptown to the Cornell Club to avoid the protests in and around NYU (100,000+ people in Washington Square Park). Exhausted from the trials and tribulations of travel, the conference, and the New Yorker hotel (which was plagued with midnight fire drills), we bowed out and left the city for my parents' on Long Island. Spent most of the next two days following world events.
Posted by: MGK at March 27, 2003 08:08 PM | Link to CommentHey, avoid deflated blogs...go ahead and lengthen the number of days displayed :) Your regulars will be reading via your RSS feed anyways, so why not go ahead and put two weeks (or more) up there for the first-timers?