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வித்தியாசம் Viththiyaasam
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C&W 2024 Keynote: perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)
June 21, 2024
When I was invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at Computers & Writing, "The planning committee was excited…
CCCC 2024: If to Move the Soul a Writer
April 5, 2024
Catch the Italo Calvino reference? This virtual presentation at 4C24 was complicated, as it involved designing and scripting a tiny…
The Exclusions Always Matter
February 4, 2019
It's the anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence from British rule, thus also the kairotic moment prompting me to finally collect…
Sri Lankan American Writers on Emerging Literary Identity
February 10, 2017
A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
War Without Witness
March 3, 2015
My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
May 11, 2010
Content note: Apartheid, famine, human rights atrocities, immolation Authors Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva were members of the so-called Bang-Bang…
Reading When Broken Glass Floats
May 17, 2009
When I start thinking about war or genocide, I go to the images first. Maybe this is so I can…