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The Sexual Palimpsest of Brown University’s “Rock”

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Brown University’s Rockefeller Library is reminiscent of UChicago’s Regenstein. They’re both rather ugly from the outside, they both have two basements, they both have nicknames (the “Rock” and “Reg”, respectively), and they’re both filled with graffiti mostly written in literate1 English.
In just three hours combing through the study areas in the Rock stacks, I collected [...]

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Politics and graffiti

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The other day, a baby boomer coworker asked me about politics in the graffiti. Was there protest graffiti after the recent Supreme Court ruling on corporate spending in elections? “Of course not,” I replied, surprised that he’d even ask– though it’s something I’ve heard from other baby boomers before.
It’s not that politics are absent entirely [...]

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A pseudo-scientific analysis of the graffiti, with disclaimers for the pedantic

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

About a month ago, I was invited to put together a guest post for Inkling Magazine, and the resulting pseudo-scientific analysis of the graffiti is now up!
The “analysis” considers:

Happiness, as measured in the ratio to smiley faces to frowny faces
Love vs. hate, with a spiffy Venn diagram of the objects of the aforementioned emotions
Sex: to [...]

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