Author: gclinnell
What do we want from our digital environments?
In a thoughtful essay for the Atlantic a few weeks ago, Navneet Alang wrote about the desire to be heard. Writing of Alexa’s Secret Keeper app, which records password-protected “private thoughts,” Alang notes: “The appeal of the app is obvious – it lets you get something off your chest. It also suggests that sometimes, who… Continue reading What do we want from our digital environments?
Wanted: A Vocabulary of Digital Experience
What does it feel like to have a body? In his seminal work Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England, Michael Schoenfeldt explores the impact of humoral theory on this question in the writings of early modern English authors like Donne, Spenser, and Herbert. In the first chapter of the book Schoenfeldt ponders the continuing attraction of these physical… Continue reading Wanted: A Vocabulary of Digital Experience
Greetings from a Former Graduate Student
Hello! That worked well. If you’ve read the one and only previous post here, you will admire the absolute absence of bloggishness during my year at Cambridge. A glorious silence. Oops. To recap the year: I did spend a lot of time thinking about imaginary gardens. I wrote my dissertation on responsive landscapes in Milton’s Paradise Lost.… Continue reading Greetings from a Former Graduate Student
Greetings from a Soon-to-Be Graduate Student
Hello! My name is Gabrielle Linnell and I’m preparing to spend a year lost in imaginary gardens. I am about to begin an M.Phil in Medieval & Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. (For me, that is more or less one of the Greatest Sentences in English literature, medieval-onwards.) During the program, I will focus on the… Continue reading Greetings from a Soon-to-Be Graduate Student