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Note: In an overly subtle encoding of information, the textual links are typically to plain ASCII versions of documents, while the eye graphic is to an HTML formatted version.

A version of this page with essentially the same markup was written back in the days when folks like me were complaining about the new-fangled features of HTML 2.0, and about the associated erosion of markup for structural/semantic meaning into markup for visual appearance. I think the page holds up pretty well after eight years (even visually). In fact, I will make the very small changes necessary to make this compliant XHTML, and give it another decade of life. Other old fogies might appreciate the sentimental icons I added to the page.

I am always working on getting more of my articles online. Many articles on this site have been published in various places (one of the resume type documents will probably have information on this); hence copyright restrictions may apply. I don't like the idea of IP ownership, and believe that information wants to be free and all that. But other folks sometimes think otherwise, so you may not have complete freedom to do what you wish with these documents. Many of these papers are reprinted below in slightly different versions than those published. Mostly it is a question of including extra elaborations which were taken out because of length constraints imposed by the publisher, or in some cases, extra notes were made after publication.

(DIR) Computer/Programming Topics

So much good stuff that I have split it into a separate listing.


(DIR) Text Processing in Python

My book in-progress! Drafts are available with the kind permission of my publisher, Addison Wesley.


(DIR) Resume and Curriculum Vitae

My resume is available strictly as source code in one of several scripting languages. The cute idea is to include just enough concise code in each version to make the document sensitive to unauthorized modifications (as head-hunters are wont to). Run each version as indicated within the document, and it will report on its own authenticity.

(HTMLify) My Curriculum Vitae is just a regular document with no code in it, but lots of publications listed (and other things).


(DIR) Short Academic/Political Reviews

Are all in the directory linked here. The titles are descriptive enough.


(DIR) Biological Topics

I have written, over time, quite a number of little articles relating to biology, and its misuses. I suppose all the articles in the AIDS section below are like this. But a number of other general discourses that I have written semi-formally address some important points about bio-reductionism, determinism, sociobiology, and some related ideas. Possibly I might sneak more into the actual directory than I list explicitly.

(HTMLify) Response to E.O.Wilson's, "The Biological Basis of Morality"
by David Mertz
(HTMLify) Genotype, Phenotype, and "Norms Of Reaction"
by David Mertz

(DIR) My Dissertation

The Speculum and The Scalpel:
The Politics of Impotent Representation and Non-Representational Terrorism

Many of the articles I wrote between 1990 and 1999 were incorporated (usually in modified/improved form) into my dissertation. The whole behometh is available below; so are parts that I have pulled out as separate articles. You can check my CV to figure out what was published where (or don't bother, the texts are below).

The Prospectus
by David Mertz (HTML)
The Dissertation in "book format"
OpenContent License (PDF)
The Dissertation in "page format"
OpenContent License (PDF)
(HTMLify) Day-Care Devil Worshipers (1998)
Hereby released to the public domain

(DIR) Heady Articles on Poststructuralist Philosophy

Cyborg Bodies Revisited
by David Mertz
Notes on Three Economies: Hyper-real, Real and Hidden
by David Mertz
Are There Any Lesbians in the Film Henry and June?
by David Mertz (1991)
(HTMLify) Between an Epistemology of Gender and a Gendered Epistemology
by David Mertz (1988)
(Postscript) Language (an honors thesis in Philosophy of Language)
by David Mertz
(HTMLify) The Practice of Mathematics
by David Mertz (1987)

(DIR) Articles Relating to AIDS and Ethics:

The Sex Wars
by David Mertz
The Bioethics Tabloids
by Udo Schüklenk and David Mertz
Women and AIDS
by David Mertz, Mary Ann Sushinsky and Udo Schüklenk
Deathly Doctrine
by Udo Schüklenk and David Mertz

Copyright terms I approve of:

Public Domain.
Normally what I think makes the most sense for works of prose and poetry. Probably what I best prefer for source code also. Anything else is a compromise.
GNOSIS-L.
This is a BSD-ish license that I wrote to apply to some software I had written. It is pretty good, IMO. And the acronym is quite good.
(DIR) Open Content License and Open Publication License.
Frankly, I am a little bit confused about exactly what the OpenContent folks have done with their different licenses, and what the differences are. The concept is good, but I haven't studied the latter language carefully yet.
GNU Free Documentation License.
Needless to say, the FSF folks are always a little heavy-handed in their approach. But this one is more careful in treating versioning and attribution issues than other "free content" licenses, so it has some strengths.

mertz@gnosis.cx

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