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. The word takes inspiration 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. As Acceity is derived from this philosophical concept, I hope it too can imply some sense of unique individuality.

Acceity also conveys other messages that any aspiring branding agent would do well to note. It starts and ends the same way as the English word accessibility, so it might impart a sense of being open and available to all. It shares all but two of the letters in creativity, conjuring up a connotation of being original and inventive. Also, it begins with A, the first letter in the alphabet, which gives a sense of premier status and a notion of standing first. In short, Acceity is a word with no specific meaning that, as a title, still ought to convey all of the unique, open, and creative qualities of this website. Find your own meaning among the letters.

The Author

My name is Joshua Wachuta. I am an undergraduate student of history and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. My casual interests span virtually every topic offered for study at a liberal arts college—I am something of a philomath. However, I do not pretend to be an expert in any particular field, and the informal remarks I present here are meant to express my interests as a student, not my authority on any subject. I merely like to write, and I hope you enjoy the writings you find here.

If you would like to contact me for any reason, please email jw@acceity.org.

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).