I have never been to America, and I can’t tell you which are my favourite standardised musical goods
Things are still so new that I can count them in terms of weeks. This is Week 6 of my PhD Studies! What has been on my mind this week? Well, besides attempting to do my own literature review for my own PhD, as part of the coursework I spent…
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The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities
The first month anniversary of me starting my PhD and a recap of what’s been on my mind – classic crit theory texts, uncanny wasp faces, the computational turn in the social sciences and humanities, the different typologies of the PhD Thesis, and a sneak preview of my research propositions.
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“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…
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What I learnt about “how to work” from 4 years, 10 months, and 25 days of teaching
This is my first week as a PhD student at NTU ADM. The week before, I was furiously toiling on my work pc until the very eleventh hour. By which I mean I was supposed to return my laptop at 10AM but at 9.30AM on the cab into the office…
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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…
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What’s going on in VR, HCI and Games Research in 2022? – Notes from attending the IEEE VR 2022, CHI 2022, and DIGRA 2022 conferences
Well folks, its official now. A couple months ago, I tendered from my teaching job and TODAY I’ve matriculated as a graduate student. In 24 days I will be embarking the first year of a PhD. Since the idea behind doing a PhD is presumably to do a lot of…
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