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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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 …
Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Brandon LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
CBC: People in highly-taxed countries are better off: report.
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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That was sure a surprise when we tuned in at the end of the afternoon yesterday. I sure hope they know what they’re doing. Dion doesn’t exactly seem like a popular figure inside or outside Quebec. But then, parties here don’t choose their leaders by popular vote.
are always surprises. Sometimes it’s the quality of the performance itself, but in this case it was the very existence of the show. Looking up the starting time for Tuesday night’s Zombi/Maserati show, I stumbled across a listing for last night’s Grates/Life and Times/ Bad Flirt show at the Main Hall. I’m a big fan …
