Jason Puskar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Puskar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Puskar |
| SIGNATURE | PUSKAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2267-7226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Counting on the body
By recovering the history of simple finger counting techniques and their relevance to a wide range of enumerative and calculative technologies, this article argues that human fingers have long shaped the digital, and more importantly, that the digital has long shaped the fingers. The interfaces of calculating machines from the Roman abacus to the touchscreen calculators mathematize the body in very specific and consistent ways, such that the fing…
‘Hazardous Business’
Research Article| September 01 2016 ‘Hazardous Business’: Nella Larsen's Passing and Risk Racialization Jason Puskar Jason Puskar University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [email protected] Jason Puskar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he specializes in American literature and culture from 1880 to 1950. He is the author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance (Stanford Univers…
Black and White and Read All Over
Richard Wright’s 1941 photo-text 12 Million Black Voices reveals a deep conflict between traditional African-American commitments to language and literacy and new possibilities emerging in the medium of photography. Ironically, given its integrationist stance, Black Voices reconstitutes the social separation of races as a separation of media forms
Pistolgraphs
AcknowledgementI am grateful to Theodore Martin for his invaluable advice on an earlier draft of this essay
Accident Society
Accident Society
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became “car accidents” and “industrial accidents.” During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. By producing chance, nove…
Hwa þas fitte fegde ? Questioning Cynewulf's Claim of Authorship
This essay revisits the relationship between the Old English poems Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles. It argues that the two poems are parts of a single larger work, as many nineteenth-century scholars surmised, but it denies that they are by the same author. The poet Cynewulf, who names himself at the end of Fates, appended that shorter poem to the long narrative poem Andreas, which was originally the work of one or more poets other than Cyn…
Risking Ralph Ellison
Pistolgraphs
AcknowledgementI am grateful to Theodore Martin for his invaluable advice on an earlier draft of this essay
Hwa þas fitte fegde ? Questioning Cynewulf's Claim of Authorship
This essay revisits the relationship between the Old English poems Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles. It argues that the two poems are parts of a single larger work, as many nineteenth-century scholars surmised, but it denies that they are by the same author. The poet Cynewulf, who names himself at the end of Fates, appended that shorter poem to the long narrative poem Andreas, which was originally the work of one or more poets other than Cyn…
Risking Ralph Ellison
Hwa þas fitte fegde ? Questioning Cynewulf's Claim of Authorship
This essay revisits the relationship between the Old English poems Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles. It argues that the two poems are parts of a single larger work, as many nineteenth-century scholars surmised, but it denies that they are by the same author. The poet Cynewulf, who names himself at the end of Fates, appended that shorter poem to the long narrative poem Andreas, which was originally the work of one or more poets other than Cyn…
Accident Society
Accident Society
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became “car accidents” and “industrial accidents.” During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. By producing chance, nove…
Pistolgraphs
AcknowledgementI am grateful to Theodore Martin for his invaluable advice on an earlier draft of this essay
‘Hazardous Business’
Research Article| September 01 2016 ‘Hazardous Business’: Nella Larsen's Passing and Risk Racialization Jason Puskar Jason Puskar University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [email protected] Jason Puskar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he specializes in American literature and culture from 1880 to 1950. He is the author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance (Stanford Univers…
Black and White and Read All Over
Richard Wright’s 1941 photo-text 12 Million Black Voices reveals a deep conflict between traditional African-American commitments to language and literacy and new possibilities emerging in the medium of photography. Ironically, given its integrationist stance, Black Voices reconstitutes the social separation of races as a separation of media forms
Counting on the body
By recovering the history of simple finger counting techniques and their relevance to a wide range of enumerative and calculative technologies, this article argues that human fingers have long shaped the digital, and more importantly, that the digital has long shaped the fingers. The interfaces of calculating machines from the Roman abacus to the touchscreen calculators mathematize the body in very specific and consistent ways, such that the fing…
Art (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · 19th century (2 works) · 20th century (2 works) · American fiction (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)