Contact:

Navneet Alang. Send angry rants and embarassing compliments to [ navalang [at] gmail [dot] com ] Before you do though, keep in mind that I chose that photograph to present myself to the world.

Scrawled in Wax

• The Culture of Technology: the cultural impact and import of modern trends in technology, the web and gaming but, umm, way more exciting than that sounds. Really.
• The Technologies of Pop Culture: basically, my version of “how culture works”, in order to understand pop culture as more than just ‘entertainment’ but as a product of a culture’s interests and desires. Another way to express this would be to say that I take things that are fun and then I ruin them.

About Me

• I am a PhD student at York University in Toronto in the English program. My dissertation basically boils down to how immigrant writers makes sense of a world where new=The West and old=The East. Needless to say, my life is a veritable rollercoaster of chills, thrills and spills.

The Name

No, it’s not a ripoff of Waxy. “Reflections Scrawled in Wax” was the name of a journal/book of poetry I kept in high school, the contents of which are even more cringe-inducing than you’d guess. I originally gave this blog the same name because of the often meandering nature of my thoughts; however, the more I began to blog about technology and popular culture, the more I started to see the overlap and the complex, shifting relationship between contemporary culture and the world of tech. So the name stuck and, in my mind at least, sorta’ makes sense.