James DiGiovanna
Encyclopedia
James DiGiovanna is an award-winning film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories. Together with Bob Grimm and Colin Boyd, he is one of three Cinema Writers on the staff of Tucson Weekly
. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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in 2001. His doctoral thesis, Ethics and Aesthetics of Self-Creation, is an exploration of the idea, in Pico, Milton, Blake, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, that humans are tasked with creating themselves.
The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan
described their parody of a political attack ad on Immanuel Kant as "hilarious."
DiGiovanna formerly taught at Stony Brook's Manhattan graduate program in Philosophy of Art. He currently teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His philosophical work has touched on the nature of personal identity and questions of understanding.
His writing, which appeared regularly in the Tucson Weekly, includes an article in High Noon On The Electronic Frontier (MIT Press) and stories in 20 X 18 (Cooper Union Press), "Blue Moon Review," and "Sporkpress."
He maintains the website "Spoonbot.com.
Tucson Weekly
The Tucson Weekly is an alternative newsweekly that was founded in 1984 by Douglas Biggers and Mark Goehring, and serves the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area of about 900,000 residents. The paper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies...
. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic...
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Education
DiGiovanna received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony BrookState University of New York at Stony Brook
The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....
in 2001. His doctoral thesis, Ethics and Aesthetics of Self-Creation, is an exploration of the idea, in Pico, Milton, Blake, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, that humans are tasked with creating themselves.
Professional Work
DiGiovanna co-wrote, directed, and produced the film A Forked World (2004) together with Carey Burtt, in addition to several other collaborations. In his blogBlog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan is an English author, editor, political commentator and blogger. He describes himself as a political conservative. He has focused on American political life....
described their parody of a political attack ad on Immanuel Kant as "hilarious."
DiGiovanna formerly taught at Stony Brook's Manhattan graduate program in Philosophy of Art. He currently teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His philosophical work has touched on the nature of personal identity and questions of understanding.
His writing, which appeared regularly in the Tucson Weekly, includes an article in High Noon On The Electronic Frontier (MIT Press) and stories in 20 X 18 (Cooper Union Press), "Blue Moon Review," and "Sporkpress."
He maintains the website "Spoonbot.com.
Publications and Articles
- DiGiovanna, James. 1996. "Losing Your Voice on the Internet" in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA: MIT).
- DiGiovanna, James. 2008. "Is It Right To Make A Robin?" in "Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul" (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons).
- DiGiovanna, James. 2009. "Dr. Manhattan, I Presume" in "Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test" (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons).
External links
- IMDb Profile of James DiGiovanna
- Tucson Weekly archive of published reviews
- Rotten Tomatoes archive of published reviews
- "The Exam" by James DiGiovanna
- "Kicks" by James DiGiovanna
- "Plants and Animals" by James DiGiovanna
- "When God Came Back I Became Alone" by James DiGiovanna
- "F*cking Your Girlfriend Three Ways" by James DiGiovanna
- "Sole Survivor" by James DiGiovanna