About RJ Wheaton
Website: http://www.rjwheaton.com
RJ Wheaton was raised in the UK and has lived in California, the Netherlands, and now Canada. He has a master's degree in historical research and another (yes, it was that kind of a career path) in critical theory. The latter required reading a great deal of post-structuralist theory, cursing an academic library system that had changed little in five centuries, and wondering if writing really had to be that obtuse. Then serendipity (and a particularly insightful professor) introduced him to William James, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. And that was the end of that.He resides with his partner in Toronto, where he works for a major Canadian retailer, writes about music and books, and attempts to keep three small animals fed and healthy. He is also Senior Producer for PopMatters.com, the international magazine of cultural criticism. He is currently writing a volume on Portishead's Dummy for Continuum's 33 1/3 series.He believes in (1) the inherent goodness of humanity, (2) the notion that science and technology will save us if we tend to art, and (3) the restorative powers of a good plate of nachos.
Posts by RJ Wheaton:
- Not Books, but Doors: Why eReading is a More Immersive Experience 19 Jul 2011
- Twitter and Conference Rage 22 Oct 2009
- Stowaway Data: Datachondria at 50 Posts 22 Jul 2009
- Recommendations Based on Your Mood, Not Just Your Taste 21 Jul 2009
- The Phone is Technology Inertia 18 Jul 2009
- Some More Music Industry iTunes Failures 18 Jul 2009
- Digital Distribution and the New Ecology of Customer Expectations 17 Jul 2009
- Retro Soundtracks to Imaginary Heist Movies 13 Jul 2009
- Go out on the Town with Your Favourite Novel 12 Jul 2009
- Cover Art You Can Tell Your Friends About 11 Jul 2009
- Five Reasons Why Filter Failure is Good For You 08 Jul 2009
- Against Experience 23 Jun 2009
- In Twitter, No One Can See You Being Rude 22 Jun 2009
- More Video Essays by Matt Zoller Seitz 21 Jun 2009
- And I Don’t Much Want Your Business Card Either 20 Jun 2009
- Wes Anderson, Metadata, and Susan Sontag on Filter Failure 19 Jun 2009
- Why Margins Are No Longer Wide Enough for Marginalia 11 Jun 2009
- Don’t Tell Me Your Email Address 07 Jun 2009
- Infinite Summer and the Nike+ Model for Books 06 Jun 2009
- Digital Distribution and the End of Home Warehousing 25 May 2009
- Don’t Judge a Cover By its Book 16 May 2009
- Tell Me Where to Read, Not What to Read: Or, What to do When Your Cultural Objects are No Longer Objects 04 May 2009
- Push vs Pull, or, How I Need to Know About Your Product 21 Apr 2009
- Entertainment Guides: Or, How the Publishing and Recording Industries Combine to Create the Purest Hell 02 Mar 2009
- Touchscreen, Touchscreen, On The Wall… 14 Feb 2009
- Last.fm and the Fear of Accidental Exposure 10 Feb 2009
- Negative Data 01 Feb 2009
- Metadata and its Discontents 18 Jan 2009
- Datachondria: Better Living Through Data 01 Jan 2009