@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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2026-04-18 22:58 UTC
Who was he? You can get an idea from the top web hit on his name, this piece in Inside Higher Ed. Note that the "freelance librarian" bit mentioned in this article is in my bio, partly as a remembrance of him.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/11/23/essay-scott-eric-kaufman
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@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 23:04
"Youth needs its cyborg identity tap the fingers, keys, the mouse runs each click a heaping of coal burned, somewhere the ice cap shudders" He was probably the first person I related to as an adult who was a younger adult than I was. That I outlived him seems wrong. The "cyborg identity" here is from one of his earliest English papers that used it in some continental-philosophy way. Each click of the mouse being coal burned was a contemporaneous reference to the @bruces@mastodon.social Viridian list.