I’m imagining you’ve come here looking for one of two things:

1. Information about the increasingly disposable nature of consumer capitalist goods, or
2. The inside scoop on me.

Alas, I’ve got very little to say about the former, except the usual gripes and complaints.

About me, on the other hand: Planned Obsolescence is a weblog maintained by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, an associate professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Planned Obsolescence is more or less XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. For what that’s worth. It’s published using WordPress, MySQL, a little PHP, and many stupid e-mail messages to the support folks at my hosting provider.

More information about my teaching and research can be found via the link to “Kathleen Fitzpatrick,” to your right.

But there will be no pictures. No good pictures of me exist in this universe, except, ironically, the one on my driver’s license. In fact, my last three drivers’ licenses have had really stunning pictures on them, and astonishingly, they’ve all been of me. I’ve clearly got to get one of those DMV cameras.

Any questions?