Metaphor Hacker

I was reminded by this blog post on LousyLinguist that many people still see metaphor as an unproblematic homogeneous concept leading to much circular thinking about them.  I wrote about that quite a few years ago in: Lukeš, D., 2005. Towards a classification of metaphor use in text: Issues in conceptual discourse analysis of a [...]

I am a gaming semi-literate! I was listening to the discussion of the latest BioShock game on the latest TWiT podcast when I realized that I am in fact game illiterate. I am hearing these stories and descriptions of experiences but I know I can’t access them directly without a major investment in knowledge and [...]

I just found out that both abstracts I submitted to the Cognitive Futures of the Humanities Conference were accepted. I was really only expecting one to get through but I’m looking forward to talking about the ideas in both. The first first talk has foundations in a paper I wrote almost 5 years ago now about [...]

Trying to "call things by their name" is stupid. Things don't have names for people. People have names for things. http://t.co/jUkt68uA # Powered by Twitter Tools

Wow, what deep seated fear must #WSJ have to criticise slave rebels for use of terror 250 years later! http://t.co/t6Z6y8dY #racism # What is it about reality shifting films like Looper, Matrix or Inception that make people call them "smart"? http://t.co/855nu5y5 # The Sinister Sausage Machine http://t.co/NQqzgKQY #metaphor negotiation of market place and uniformity in [...]