One of my interests is Samuel Beckett's embodiment of mathematical issues in his work, a tactic that seems part of his engagement with issues of completeness, consistency, completeness, and representation. This literary interest leads me to see the critical study of technology as similar to the critical study of literature; the world looks like a sea of nails to my literary hammer, but naming shared anxieties and fantasies of literature and technology have sometimes been productive. Insisting on this parallel became the focus of a digital studies department I helped to found at the University of Detroit Mercy in 1999. Now, at a community college, I often see digital technologies as key tools for supporting class-driven narratives about education, narratives that can be resisted by making visible some of their naive and quaint notions.