Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

1012 / big refactoring of chapter underway, I think it's the right approach but it's pretty tedious ugh

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-143/ this week in sentences: little more than, ceaselessly bathed, quill-scrawled, propertarian, extortion angle, healthy disregard, used to be, garbage, apocalypse, forceps, august brands, emboldened, hyphenated names

Man that cultural hegemony do be enforcing itself with violence in the wake of increasingly splintered media publics huh

2003 / but it was a blog post to think through some stuff for the dissertation, not the dissertation (but the stuff on planet scale and capitalist realism I think I might run with)
https://placing.technology/working-through-some-stuff-for-chapter-3

1329 / more of a "writing lit annotations so I can work them into this chapter revision" than additive but still useful I think?

The Summer I Turned Marxist-Leninist

I know I am being a baby but it is annoying to get feedback encouraging me to add contextual and analytical obvious stuff for a hypothetical undergrad reader in my dissertation when said dissertation will in fact only be read in its entirety by this committee, possibly not even all of them

https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/14595/a-bunch-of-questions-with-no-answers went to see this video installation my friend Rob worked on at SculptureCenter tonight and there's an opening for another show happening at the same time and honestly felt like I was losing it watching this while a bunch of people network around abstract art

Got basically nowhere on revisions today because it turns out still being mad at my advisor for mismanaging money and lying about it makes me very hostile to her feedback even if some of it is reasonable! I will get past this it's just annoying

what do you mean the thesis statement of this chapter can't be "making hating intellectual property law your entire personality is a pretty shitty politic"

1,903 / but a lot of it was revision and cutting stuff so total is down to 39,365 whooo

Actually added a few more words and maybe chapter 1 is done for now?

1389 written today with lots of edits and moving around / 39,798 total

Got first notes back for a chapter submitted 10 days ago so updates might become more about cutting words than adding them, which is probably good

based on feedback from others I have conceded there is one exception that proves the rule and it is tetris, the only good software ever made

Do I really need a citation to make the statement in my dissertation that historically, no one has ever successfully made "good" software

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-142/ this week in sentences: onion, new horrors, mermaids, sheer terror, absolute avalanche, tank top, kind of integrity, meme bullet, in motion, tarot, twenty, squandered, anti-piss defense system, qualified, existence

1446 written / 38,409 total because of editing stuff out

Just did a 4 hour interview for the dissertation with the person who led Rand McNally's efforts to build custom navigation hardware for truckers

2,837 written today / 38,461 but I might cut a section I wrote yesterday so maybe more like 37,449 total

nonsequitur timeline cleanse: i was trying to figure out the origins of the concept of "enterprise software" and this marketing campaign for enterprise software featuring Commander Riker from TNG is not it, but it is really something https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/10/exclusive-inside-boole-babbages-trek-vision/