“Out With the Trash: On the Future of New Media” in Charles Acland, ed., Residual Media, 16-31. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. It’s right next to another piece by Lisa Parks on high tech trash so you can get a nice double dose. Links to my New York events next week: a seminar in Ethnomusicology …
Category Archives: Academe
Link
…a long and moving post about the job market. Perhaps more cynical than I’d be, but I suspect it’s a difference of discipline.
Misc and a Recipe
By now it would be passé to comment on the professor who claimed that bloggers were lonely and futile. Besides, how are you supposed to defend that? It’s the classic setup. On the other hand, to lump in all blogs together would be like to say “all people who write for magazines.” My response: Salon.com …
A Brief Blip
Here’s a scary and funny article from Kembrew McLeod in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Quote of the Week + More New Book Arrivals
The point of universites for Justi and other cameralists is to make students useful as future tools–servants of the state and upright citizens. If universities had merely the goal to improve citizens’ understanding and widen human knowledge, then one would need no public funding for institutions of such little benefit to the state and common …
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What’s Old is Even Older
Attention cultural studies geeks. I am always fascinated by the degree to which things repeat themselves in academic culture. The 70s mass culture debates restaged those of the 40s and 50s, and on and on. This morning I went looking for an electronic copy of Georg Simmel’s essay on fashion, and I stumbled upon this …
Books
It occurs to me that one good use of this blog, and one way to maybe start some conversations, is to list books that are coming in. I purchase a lot of books, probably more than I have time to read, but my intentions are strictly honorable even if the result is, well, more Benjaminian. …