The following email arrived in my inbox yesterday, which I am reproducing here. If you want to skip to the chase, here’s a link to a letter you can send to the Postal Board of Governors. I’m not sure if they’ll pay attention if you’ve got a Canadian address, but then, it being the U.S., …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Here Come the Leaping Lesbians
For each academic year since I’ve become a professor, the end of classes has been punctuated by a rock show. I have fond memories of sitting on the Carnegie-Mellon lawn in Pittsburgh, lazily watching a lukewarm set by Superchunk. Another year we drove to Cleveland to watch Shiner (one of my favorite bands at the …
Penguin Cam
I just learned of this last night. The refresh rate is too slow, but hey, it’s pictures of penguins. How can you go wrong?
The point being made. . .
I just finished reading a comprehensive exam answer in which the student refers to Lewis Mumford’s notion of “biotechnics,” which he elaborates at the end of The Myth of the Machine. For Mumford, biotechnics is an attempt to subordinate technological development to the rules of life instead of the rules of math, an attempt as …
In place of a real post
I’ll just write and say that I was a little disappointed that the Quebecois gangsters didn’t get a little more time on last night’s The Sopranos. But we’ll take what we can get. Commentary (and links to more) here.
New Rules: TV Edition (Spoilers)
1. (24) If you have a TV series where a character plays the president, you cannot have two different vice presidents conduct 25th amendment proceedings to usurp two different presidents in two different seasons. 2. (Ugly Betty) If you have a gay character in a TV series who is coming out to his mother, does …
The Week of “I Can’t Believe I Get to Work Here”
That was the week inbetween my trip to Chicago and my trip to New York. John Durham Peters was in residence was in residence here and I had much fun with him. Georgina Born came and gave a talk on a Thursday afternoon. I had a great time with my grad students. My undergrad class …
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