11.03.2010
Spellcheckify

Just came across a list of words flagged by the copy editor of Taking Things Seriously (Princeton Architectural Press), a collection of photos and essays that I edited in 2007.
In the spirit of Harper’s Magazine, I’ve excerpted the list here:
Aphex
aestheticized
Babyboomerama
Bourdieu
Cheez
Columbo
cathexis
cremains
décollage
démontage
Echoplex
Fortean
Funicello
fossilism
Helltown
Korn
magister
mo’ai
objecthood
overdetermined
quiddity
Sante
Soaky
squareback
thingness
totemism
unsignifiable
Yastrzemski
zine

Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer, publisher, and cultural semiologist-for-hire.
He is coauthor and/or co-editor of TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY, THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, THE WAGE SLAVE'S GLOSSARY, and — in 2012 — the object-oriented story collection SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS, and the kids' field guide to life UNBORED. He is editor of HILOBROW and publisher of the science fiction imprint HILOBOOKS; and he is co-founder of SEMIONAUT and the SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS experiment.
In the '00s, Glenn was an editor, columnist, and blogger (BRAINIAC) for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section, and he was new media producer for the paper's LIVING/ARTS section. In the '90s, he published the seminal high-lowbrow zine/journal HERMENAUT; was an editor at UTNE READER; and was co-producer of the pioneering DIY how-to website and social network TRIPOD.
Glenn produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He manages a secretive online community known as THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.