Joyful Complexity
Daniel Coffeen, PhD Writing, Strategy, Branding, Philosophy, Rhetoric & Sophistry
WRITING, LECTURES, BLOGS, PODCASTS, RANTS
An Emphatic Umph, my main blog on life, film, art, enjoyment
Live Thought, my philosophy blog of video, audio, and written lectures and the like
Interviewed by CNN for an article on profanity on TV
Interviewed by Doug Lain for his podcast, Dietsoap
Some podcasts on enjoyment, the workplace, civility, and sex
“Television on The Wire: Extension, Expansion, Proliferation” > at Thought Catalog
“A Less Bloody Ethics: On True Blood” > at Thought Catalog
Essay for the Tate, "Film, Play, Power and the Computational"
“This is Cinema: The Pleated Plenitude of the Cinematic Sign in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.” for Film-Philosophy
"This is Life,” copy for art show in Mexico City
"The Death of the Reel: Harnessing the Image in Marc Lafia's 'Permutations" (PDF)
"Hyperdiction: A Tool Kit for the Now" (with Marc Lafia) @ The Walker
My talk on Pirate Cat Radio on The Eradication of the Human Host, with DJ Prefect
"Surface"
"Infinity Bound"
"Reading the Way of Things, Well"
Rhetoric 10 Lectures at Berkeley (also on iTunes U)
"Seeing Seeing": Lectures at Berkeley on Art, Film, and Seeing
Me, on Twitter
WORK: Branding strategy + architecture, visioning, writing, naming, digital strategy, information architecture, coaching
See resume, professional writing samples, partial client list