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1. "Christopher Schaberg is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2011) and The En
by deepspace 10y ago
1. "Christopher Schaberg is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2011) and The End of Airports (2015). His next book, Airportness, will be published by Bloomsbury in fall 2017." -- Airport fetish much?
2. This drivel reads like an essay by a struggling humanities undergraduate. The whole piece could be replaced by two words, "airports suck", with no loss of information.
- codyb 10y agoThe "Siri which planes are above me" made the journey worth it for me. Really pretty neat.
- jasode 10y agoThat particular question seems to resonate because it was also mentioned in 2014 NYT article about a mother's autistic son and his relationship with Siri: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-be...
- mrfusion 10y agoThat doesn't work for me. It just brings up a web search.
- thesmallestcat 10y agoSomebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Which promises a profitable day, as far as HN karma is concerned.
- golemotron 10y agoHe lost me at: "Airportness transcends airports themselves. Airportness is how flight becomes natural to us, expected and accepted." There has to be a word for that sort of ponderous pretension.
- throwanem 10y agoWell, he is an associate professor, i.e., without tenure. So it's actually an essay by a struggling humanities graduate.