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Winter quarter in the bookstacks

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Apologies for a silent winter quarter– the graffiti project tends to slide towards hibernation in the winter in general (I took no pictures at all in winter ’09), and it was compounded this year by heaps of stress and moving. Fear not, though, I still went to the stacks weekly, so let’s catch up on [...]

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Graffiti analysis part 1: Arizona State University

Saturday, December 4, 2010

This is the first in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. Located in a college town that seems to have neither a coffee house nor a bookstore (and [...]

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Plagiarism in Ivy League graffiti: what are Brown University students ripping off?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I’ve started slogging through all the graffiti transcriptions for my next analysis (see previous post for details), and as a teaser I’m posting the data about quotes found in the Brown University corpus. Perhaps “plagiarism” is unnecessarily accusatory. Many of the pieces pull from popular culture, a frame of reference ideally shared by writer and [...]

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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 [...]

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Iconographies of the UChicago-student relationship

Monday, April 5, 2010

If you asked the admissions office how to represent the relationship between UChicago and its students, you’d probably hear some beautiful and poetic cliches involving drinking from fountains of knowledge, breathing in the sweet scent of wisdom, basking in the glow of collegiality among some of the greatest minds in the country. If you look [...]

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Hieroglyphic sex graffiti

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Rarely does a single piece of graffiti merit its own blog post. This morning I found one such piece of graffiti on the 4th floor, next to the ad for (subsequently reverted) Wikipedia vandalism, near the Facebook thumbs up. The second row of hieroglyphs in the image to the right (click to see larger) were [...]

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