Writing

DBBD is writing a PhD

Organising your PhD Data with Notion, Google Sheets, Google Drive

Hello my mysterious PhD blog readers! How many of my friends are also pursuing obscure interdisciplinary PhDs? Who are you? What motivated your to read a post with a title like this? This blog has been on the backburner because I’ve been working on a massive DBBD website overhaul that…

“Making Art” was my rejection of theory without practice

This semester I’m taking a Proseminar on Art, Design and Media which describes itself as hoping to give the ADM PHD students a common intellectual ‘genealogy’ to speak of. And so we started going through a reading list of “classic” critical theory readings that immediately reminded me, somewhat nostalgically, of…

Interdisciplinarity, interstellar travel, and being an amateur

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being on a panel discussion as a part of NUS Museum’s Summer Talk series – speaking with Prof Jose Ignacio Latorre (Director of CQT) and Rie Ong (NUS Museum) about interdisciplinarity. I prepared a little video segment that rambled on about my own thoughts…

To journal on paper or digital? And what daily endeavours could significantly improve one’s writing and visual output?

One of the things I’m trying to do is to write a journal daily, but for the last year or so I’ve already switched to a nearly paperless system using Goodnotes. My setup is that I use an iPad Pro 11″ which I think is a good balance between portability…

Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity

Is the decision to keep on walking in an open-world game (as opposed to completing quests and interacting with NPCs and players) driven by some kind of notion of delegated consumption and interpassivity?

Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores

What if the best way to browse information wasn’t just to use conventional categorisation, but instead to be able to explore the library in chaotically serendiptious ways?