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Organisations

I am a member of:

  • The Design History Society
  • Visual and Material Culture Research Centre
  • Postgraduate Network of the Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies Association
  • RX: Research Exchange Network in History of Art, Architecture and Design
  • Society for the History of Technology
  • The International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society

Below is a list of organisations, centres and departments which are of interest to my research.

  • The British Society for the History of Science
  • Center for Cultural Design
  • MiraLab: University of Geneva
  • The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
  • Society for Philosophy and Technology

This Blog

Documenting the work of a PhD researcher in design history/material culture/cultural phenomenology, exploring how bodies have written, this blog records her excavations, discoveries and pieces of research which sometimes fall out of the main body of the project ....

Previous Pieces

  • Classical Technology: Heron’s List
  • Photophones: A Promise from 1890
  • The Typewriter, The Gun and The Movie Camera (1996)
  • Current Visual Obsession
  • Bind me; or ways in which we dress our books
  • Media: New: History
  • The Rise of Classical Music: A Found Idea
  • Eighteenth Century Manuals: A Selection
  • Pollock in the Eighteenth Century
  • Speaking the Code Word, Properly
  • Stolen Time Archive
  • Whitechapel Gallery Salon: On Hope with Spivak
  • Early Daguerrotyping Report (1839)
  • Medieval Reading and Writing Terminology
  • Plant, Hayles and Riskin (for Ada Lovelace Day)

Most Popular Posts

  • "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party"
  • How to write acknowledgements: An example
  • Bauhaus to Hollywood: Josef Albers teaches De Niro
  • Articles
  • Free Access to Journal of Modern Craft (First Issue Only)
  • Classical Technology: Heron's List

Type of Stuff

Internet Places

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital Archive
  • Cornell University Library’s Making of America Resources
  • Critical Mass
  • Design Archives, University of Brighton
  • Design History Society
  • Design Observer
  • Deutsche Hygiene-Museum
  • DHS Electronic Mailing List
  • Fox Talbot Museum
  • Kiva: Microfinancing
  • La Biblioteca de Babel
  • London Review of Books
  • Making the Modern World
  • Material World
  • Matthew Kirschenbaum
  • Microsoft Live Book Search
  • Morbid Anatomy Blog
  • Museum of Talking Boards
  • Museum of the History of Science
  • MyTypewriter.com
  • Phinished
  • Reassigned Time
  • School of Art and Design History, KU
  • Science in the 19th Century Periodical
  • Steampunk Magazine
  • Stereotype and Society
  • The Classic Typewriter Page
  • The History of Phrenology
  • The International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society
  • The Typewriter: An Informal History
  • Typewriter Bibliography at the Smithsonian
  • US Patent Office
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Technology of Writing
  • Wired

Previous Times

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  • October 2008 (1)
  • September 2008 (19)
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  • June 2008 (14)
  • May 2008 (5)
  • April 2008 (2)
  • March 2008 (18)
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  • January 2008 (19)
  • December 2007 (4)
  • November 2007 (8)
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  • September 2007 (22)
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