Working the Web

I thought I might say a few words here about my WWW work.

Though completely self-taught--I still know virtually nothing about html code and cannot claim to be much of a designer--I have created over the last decade and still maintain (not always diligently) a variety of websites and like to think they might have been of use/of interest to some over the years.

Over the years I have moved virtually all of my web work to my own website, http://davidlavery.net/.

I am perhaps most proud of The Owen Barfield World Wide Website, still the most comprehensive Internet resource on the unjustifiably ignored British philologist and student of the evolution of consciousness.

Evil Genius: An Experiment in Fantastic Philosophy is a hypertext metafiction about a 21st century phenomenological psychologist who travels back in time to assassinate René Descartes in order to stop an epidemic of PDD, Proprioception Deficit Disorder, a psychosomatic severance of mind and body, Cartesianism come to life, in the present.

I have done websites on the cultural historian and futurologist William Irwin Thompson, the science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. (Dr. Alice Sheldon), the film theorist (my own mentor) W. R. Robinson, the great American poet Wallace Stevens.

My career-long obsession with The Grotesque resulted in The Grotesque: A World Wide Website.

A commonplace book I kept in the 1980s has become the online commonplace book The Imaginative Thinker.

Last, and certainly not least, I am the founding co-editor and webmaster of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, which will soon publish its 23rd issue.