Fall 1995 was the first time I ever got to teach in my area of substantive expertise — it was an intro to communication studies course. I’d cleverly begun with McLuhan (yes, I know I know) and the “Medium is the Message” essay. The course ended with Baudrillard’s “Requiem for the Media” which is essentially …
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Last night, Carrie and I arrived in the airport on different flights 10 minutes apart and shared a cab home. It’s been that kind of month. In fact, the only reason I’m writing this morning is because the Quebec election has meant that classes today are cancelled. So much as been going on this month …
“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 …
not really, but older. Awhile back, I posted that we bought a radio to listen to Radio Canada in order to hear more French. The thing is, it’s above our level right now and hard to understand. TV and movies would be better. Anyway, Thursday night as we cooked, Carrie flipped on the English CBC …
A friend just asked for our Pgh recommendations. Here is what I came up with, which I thought I’d share in case you ever go there: You’ll have to google the addresses but here were our favorite restos in Pgh: Zarra’s (italian) Taco Loco (tacqueria) El Campusino (mexican) The thai place on Forbes in Squirrel …
…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.
1. I wrote a sentence in my book about how depending on what country you’re in, you get a totally different view of the psychoacoustic research leading up to mp3 coding (though the concepts — masking, critical bands, etc., are all the same). Then Lucent (the fools who closed Bell Labs) won a suit against …
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