#!/john/m/cox

Me

• About This Site
• Contact Me
• Résumé (plain text)

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Writing

• Code and Poetry
• On the Necessity of Technologically Fluent Criticism
• Determining Authorship: Bayesian Analysis of Shakespeare
• Selections from Special Collection
• Teaching Writing

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Code

• Design Samples
• form.inc: Stateful Form Generator
• Move: Web File Transfer Made Simple
• nbc: Naïve Bayes Classifier
• page.inc: Simple Template Generator
• SNAP: Moderated Events Calendar
• SWISS: Asset Tracking and Checkout System

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© 2005 John M. Cox

Writing

Poets seem inclined to write essays. The early 20th century had T.S. Eliot; today we have Anne Carson. My essays do not have the aesthetic ambition of either, given that the bulk of them deal with a concern I find pressing: the relationship between text and technology. This makes my essays practical in their aims, and as anyone will tell you, the practical cannot be beautiful.

They're wrong, of course, though my essays would do little to convince them. Below is a selection of my writing, consisting mainly of academic essays and poems written over the past two years.

Essays

• On the Necessity of Technologically Fluent Criticism

  Part one in a series which examines the intersection (and friction) between technology and literary study.

• Determining Authorship of 1 Henry VI: Bayesian Analysis of the Works of Shakespeare

  Part two in the series, "Determining Authorship" is an example of how technological methods can serve as a supplement to traditional literary analysis.

Poetry

• Selections from Special Collection

  An assortment of short pieces about history.