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Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Tonight, for just a moment
the whine of the metro train leaving the station hit the exact same chord as the song playing in my earphones. That was intense.
And now, a short post about course planning
One of my major activities for the week was nailing down the details for my big lecture undergrad course in the winter. It’s a complete reworking of the department’s largest course (200 students), which has moved from a “telegraph to the internet” sort of history of communication course to “introduction to communication studies.” I always …
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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 …
New Book Arrivals
Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Brandon LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
Why Taxes Are Good for You
CBC: People in highly-taxed countries are better off: report.
A Few Other Things I Forgot to Blog About
1. I participated in “No Music Day” on the 21st of November. I didn’t listen to music all day and tried to reflect on the role of music in my life. Unfortunately, the evening before I had watched Monday Night Football. Viagra ads are common during football games, Viagra’s current ad features a song called …
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