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Rob Nguyen
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Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow (Penn State, English). Photographer and occasional gamer.
A bunch of paper had piled up on my home office desk so I did the totally normal human thing and created a retention policy flowchart. https://www.robertnguyen.net/blog/2024/6/6/workflow-retention-policy-flowchart
Thing I learned today: turns out my hand probably tires because I always hold my pen with a white-knuckled grip of death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-m83y54070
How to hold a pen (or pencil) properly and write without pain
Nearly all of your house will remain pristine and ever new; meanwhile, the one attic room coated in SW 7017 will grow more loathsome and hideous with every passing day.
Packing to move is a constant process of putting things in boxes, taping them up, and then finding one more thing that was supposed to go into that box.
This is a (delayed) and short bit on a publication of mine that went out in late 2022. I've had on a long list of to dos to write about it and share it and am just getting to it now!
https://www.robertnguyen.net/blog/2024/5/21/publication-journal-of-the-fantastic-in-the-arts
Publication: *JFA*, “Cybernetics and *Ancillary Justice*: Embodiment, Crisis, and Resistance” — Robert Nguyen
This is now a much overdue post, but for sake of completionism I’m happy to share here that my article “Cybernetics and Ancillary Justice : Embodiment, Crisis, and Resistance" was published in late 2022 in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts . I’m very proud of this project, as it touch
"What has mood to do with it?" - Gurney Halleck
Writing because it's my scheduled time to write.
(Spurred on by Paul J. Silvia's *How to Write a Lot*).
Some respect for Admiral Piett—in Return of the Jedi, Piett tells Vader that the shuttle Tyderium's code is an old one but it checks out. Then Piett says he was just about to clear them. Piett has seen this guy *strangle people with his mind*, and yet here there's an undertone here of "hey DV, you could, you know, just let me do my job."
A brief work update: here's a short bit and abstract on the paper I presented at the Association for Asian American Studies. I also had the opportunity to chair a panel on Ling Ma's *Severance* and learn about some of the great work folks are doing on that novel. As was the case last year, this was a delightful conference and a great opportunity to meet others working in the field and see familiar faces. https://www.robertnguyen.net/blog/2024/5/14/aaas-2024-presented-paper-oriental-inscrutable-unknowable-generative-ais-jinns-and-g-willow-wilsons-alif-the-unseen
AAAS 2024: Presented paper "Oriental, Inscrutable, Unknowable: Generative AIs, Jinns and G. Willow Wilson's *Alif the Unseen*" — Robert Nguyen
In late April, I had the pleasure of presenting my paper "Oriental, Inscrutable, Unknowable: Generative AIs, Jinns and G. Willow Wilson's Alif the Unseen " at the Association for Asian American Studies conference. This was part of a panel on “AI and Passing,” which included presentation
Watching a student's video essay and noticed that Taylor Swift's acolytes are so powerful that they can just hold Palantíri with their bare hands like it's nothing.