Epistemographer

I’m in Cleveland for the weekend at the previously-mentioned workshop. In reading over the papers, I’ve really been wrestling with the slippery distinction between invention and authorship as separate categories. On one level, the two words seem to point to the same kind of creative act, but it seems that the various scholars participating are [...]

This weekend, I’ll be Cleveland at the Con/Texts of Invention workshop:
This conference interrogates the social and cultural construction of invention – the diverse ways in which invention has been conceptualized in the arts and sciences in the broadest sense, including literature, the fine arts, entertainment, the physical and life sciences, law, economics, medicine, engineering, agriculture, [...]

So, one of the myriad reasons I’ve been letting this space go to seed is that my current host (Neureal) has been having all sorts of troubles…database connections have been unreliable at times, and the Wordpress software itself seems often seems abysmally slow. That in mind, I’m shopping around for a new host for this [...]