For whatever reason(s), which I have neither the patience nor know-how to figure out at the moment, the footnotes stopped working on this page like they used to–i.e. they (are/) were all being sent to the second post. Something must have changed, but I can’t figure out what, so, rather than removing the footnotes, going through the arduous task of changing things in HTML, or other not-so-fun things, I’ve decided to re-edit the second post (the one’s where all the footnotes were being sent), so that the footnotes there now don’t work either. I know this makes for a slightly less friendly interface, but I am so footnote happy, and will continue to be, that I figure it is easier for everybody if you as the reader just treat the footnotes like endnotes–i.e. it is a pain in the ass to constantly flip back and forth in a book to their endnotes, so either dog-ear the page (i.e. open the same post in a new tab and click back and forth), ignore them, read them at the end, read them first, read some and not others, etc. etc. Basically, I feel very strongly that you used to just be able to roll over them and view them w/ this software, but that has ceased for whatever reason. So until WordPress.COM (not .org, I could fix it w/o HTML if that were the case) comes up w/ a better way of doing this, you will just have to deal w/ this specific hassle, of this specific archive–which is the whole point anyway. Sorry, for the rant, but I’ve spent far too much time trying to figure out how to change this–w/o HTML, I use too many footnotes for that to be any fun (i.e. the whole point of footnotes is that they are fun. . . not a hassle. . .)–to not feel like I owe an explanation for why the footnotes don’t “work.” (Actually they do “work,” as in they “exist” and may in fact “signify something,” and they really aren’t “that hard” to read, but they don’t “work” in the “traditional” electronic sense. Christ. Hyperarchival or what? Since when is this the traditional way footnotes worked anyway!) Also, this has all delayed the writing of “Repackaging the Archive (Part III),” so congrats to whoever changed the software (unless its my fault for just being stupid).
Of Archival Interest
Trauma Hope and Forgiveness in the Election of Barack Obama
The new issue of HotMetalBridge, the University of Pittsburgh’s Grad Magazine, just went live. Check out this killer piece on Obama and Ms. Forlow, my co-editor’s excellent interview with Anne Wysocki.
Cy-Borges and the Posthuman
Excellent NY Times article on Borges and his relationship to the posthuman here.
My Solution to the BCS Problem
I have defnitively figured out how to fix the BCS. Read my solution here.
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, and the Anxiety of One’s Own Archive
D.T. Max has just published “The Unfinished” in the New Yorker, probably the best biographical account of David Foster Wallace I’ve yet read . Check it out.
Thought: Possible Chapter Title on Infinite Jest: “The Inverted Bomb in the Garden.”
A Node
A node. Nothing more. This is simply an attempt to establish a definable point w/in the interstices which have now been claimed to be inaccessible to hermeneutics, to give reiteration to a past that is always repeating itself w/in the unstable moment, w/in the hyperarchive. We are not all hypertopians. There may still be a little Neil Perry[1] in us just yet. Let us open the doors.
[1] “Nine Minutes of Nonfiction,” Lineage Situation (Level-Plane Records, 2003); or, Dead Poets Society (dir. Peter Weir, 1989), played by Robert Sean Leonard.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 