June 5, 2015Yesterday I struck my magnet while opening my fridge door and felt it shift like an intruder in my flesh.…
May 21, 2015Access copy of my talk below. Teaching Tattoos: A Body(mod)-Focused Approach to the Composition Classroom Vyshali Manivannan, Rutgers University School…
April 8, 2015In any city, in any country, in any university in which you have been enrolled, go into any classroom and…
April 2, 2015After writing that last post on biohacking, I've been thinking more about the body as a (media) system, or a…
March 7, 2015When I find myself drowning my instinct is not to surface, but to swim deeper. I tend to operate at…
March 3, 2015My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
October 4, 2014A while back an ex-acquaintance of mine joked that my way of being with chronic pain is like being an…
September 1, 2014This is my current abyss. Given that the (subject to market value, of course) costs of medication on my new…
August 27, 2014Been watching this unfold in my inbox on WPA-L all day and as one such adjunct, I have no words. Just…
August 20, 2014I published a solicited opinion piece in The New York Times Room for Debate in response to questions about Internet…