Grant Wythoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 2522919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Wythoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Wythoff |
| SIGNATURE | WYTHOFF G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Football Association |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6605-9596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ensuring Minimal Computing Serves Maximal Connection
Originally devised as an insult by Richard Wollheim, the term minimalism described a 1960s movement that foregrounded the relationship between an art object and its museum viewer. Today, minimalism is the guiding ethos for a surprising variety of pop cultural phenomena, from belongings that spark joy to contemplative practice that increases mindfulness. This article first takes a broader view of minimalism to register several problematic echoes o…
On Method in the Humanities
On Method in the Humanities Grant Wythoff (bio) From October 1975 to August 1977, Bruno Latour and Steve Wool-gar conducted two years of ethnographic fieldwork within the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. They were interested in two main questions: first, how are "facts constructed in the laboratory," and second, "how can a sociologist account for this construction?"1 Starkly departing from conventional notions of scientific discovery in whi…
The Perversity of Things
"In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction's annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback'…
Artifactual Interpretation
Media archaeology has thus far been informed by Michel Foucault's largely metaphorical use of the term "archaeology" to denote an inquiry into "the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events." But the discipline of traditional archaeology, its primary concern being the study of how objects mediate our relationship to the past, has much to offer a *media* archaeology. I outline here some of the i…
Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922
April 01 2013 Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922 Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. His dissertation is a cultural history of that alternately functional and fictional device, the gadget. He currently serves on the steering committee of the Princeton Digital Humanities Initiative and is preparing a cri…
Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922
April 01 2013 Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922 Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. His dissertation is a cultural history of that alternately functional and fictional device, the gadget. He currently serves on the steering committee of the Princeton Digital Humanities Initiative and is preparing a cri…
Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922
April 01 2013 Pocket Wireless and the Shape of Media to Come, 1899–1922 Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. His dissertation is a cultural history of that alternately functional and fictional device, the gadget. He currently serves on the steering committee of the Princeton Digital Humanities Initiative and is preparing a cri…
Artifactual Interpretation
Media archaeology has thus far been informed by Michel Foucault's largely metaphorical use of the term "archaeology" to denote an inquiry into "the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events." But the discipline of traditional archaeology, its primary concern being the study of how objects mediate our relationship to the past, has much to offer a *media* archaeology. I outline here some of the i…
The Perversity of Things
"In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction's annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback'…
On Method in the Humanities
On Method in the Humanities Grant Wythoff (bio) From October 1975 to August 1977, Bruno Latour and Steve Wool-gar conducted two years of ethnographic fieldwork within the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. They were interested in two main questions: first, how are "facts constructed in the laboratory," and second, "how can a sociologist account for this construction?"1 Starkly departing from conventional notions of scientific discovery in whi…
Ensuring Minimal Computing Serves Maximal Connection
Originally devised as an insult by Richard Wollheim, the term minimalism described a 1960s movement that foregrounded the relationship between an art object and its museum viewer. Today, minimalism is the guiding ethos for a surprising variety of pop cultural phenomena, from belongings that spark joy to contemplative practice that increases mindfulness. This article first takes a broader view of minimalism to register several problematic echoes o…
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