February 2009 archives

Archive

February 3, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

The Melville Principle

In recent years, I’ve been arguing that Melville’s Moby-Dick dramatizes the benefits of cosmopolitanism — as well as some of the obstacles to its realization. So I was pleased to discover that the political scientist Aristide Zolberg wraps up his study A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2006) with a [...]

Archive

February 1, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

Gigacool

So here’s a place where two of my interests — technology and politics — come together: David Bergman’s Gigapan image of President Obama’s inaugural address. It’s a 1.47 gigapixel shot — yes, that’s gigapixel not megapixel — created using Gigapan’s Epic photo mount, which enables you to shoot a series of multiple overlapping pictures that [...]