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 …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
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 …
The Department That Parties Together Learns Together
or is it the other way around?
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.