That’s the number of unread blog posts in my little rss feed on Safari. Yes, I have been neglecting the internet for other things. I’m thinking I need to get rid of some rss feeds and just go back to reading my friends. But enough on that. So here we are in 2007 and I …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
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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Seasonal Flamewar Disorder
Most of the listservs I receive and most of the online fora I frequent are prodominantly populated by academics. Academics, as you know, have a fairly predictable year-end cycle of finish, grade grade grade, and finish again. This is repeated in April through June though different people’s schools finish at different times, while Christmas affects …
New Book Arrivals and More
New Books: Andrew Crisell Understanding Radio — has it constantly checked out of the library, decided to buy after a recall Creagher, Lunbeck and Schiebinger Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine — mostly history an anthropology, a good collection. Again, purchased after a recall Peter Szendy, Sur Écoute: Esthétique de L’Espionage just came in …
Quick Updates
Sometimes my life here feels like a series of events planned by other people. Which is absolutely wonderful — there is always something going on — but of course one important part of life is maintaining friendships on one’s own time and in one’s own way and not under the rubric of an “event.” In …
Timex Computer
Steven writes in the comments to the subway chord post: OMG, you had a Timex Sinclair? It had a tape deck? I guess I didn’t know those things had any accessories. Okay, I remembered wrong. Looking at the pictures, I most clearly had a Timex ZX81. I actually inherited it from some friends of my …
In today’s mail
came our permanent residency cards. We can now officially leave the country and return (as well as stay in it). Some facts of note: –the card expires. In 2011. I don’t see anything about renewal though obviously that’s an option. But by 2011 we could be dual citizens. And Carrie will have tenure. And the …