mattswriting

History

Hometown: Oakland, California
Current School: University of California, Berkeley
Date of Birth: 03/24/1984
Personal Website or Blog: http://mattswriting.googlepages.com
Favorite Website: http://mcsweeneys.net/
Favorite Books: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Favorite Quotes: "The central fact for me is, I think, that the intellectual is endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, a philosophy or opinion ... And this role has an edge to it, and cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place is to raise embarrassing question, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be coopted by governments or corporations and whose raison d’être is to represent all those people and issues who are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug."
(Edward Said, Reith Lectures, June 1993)
Interests and Activities: DJing, cycling, hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains, reading, writing, spoken word vinyl, Modernist texts, oral narrative projects