Shadows and Reflections: A Self Portrait.

Acceity is a web journal about language, creativity, society, media, technology, nature, history, humor, and sundry other topics of no obvious relation to each other. This page is about Acceity.

The Name

The word Acceity, (Pronounciation IPA: /æk'siːəti/) is my own neologism, and it has no definition. Feel free to find your own meaning among the letters. The word is loosely inspired from the medieval term haecceity, itself a corruption of the Latin haecceitas, or "thisness." The term haecceity was coined by philosopher Duns Scotus, and it refers to the particular qualities or traits of a thing which make it that thing and not anything else.

The Author

My name is Joshua Wachuta. I live in rural southwest Wisconsin and have a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. I work for the Wisconsin Historical Society. I also do web design for the Fort Crawford Museum in Wisconsin and the band Yellow Ostrich in New York. The standard disclaimer applies: all of the views presented at this site are entirely my own and they are neither endorsed by nor representative of my clients or employers.

If you would like to contact me for any reason, please email jw@acceity.org. I strongly encourage you to use PGP encryption to keep our email conversation confidential. Get my PGP public key here.

A Note on The URL

This website is registered with a .org domain name, and org is short for organization. Despite this, I assure you that there is only one person responsible for this site: me (and as it happens, I am a particularly disorganized individual). Nevertheless, I thought that the non-profit message inherent in the .org TLD was fitting for this website, since it is strictly non-commercial and may even work to the promote the public good on extraordinary occasions (if I'm feeling charitable).