Here’s an article about a surprising test by sociologist of science Harry Collins. Sure enough, experts can’t tell his answers from real physicists’ on a test about gravity. I’m not sure where this is going, but I think it proves just about as much as The Original Sokal Affair did. It proves with some skill …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Modernity in a List
Legend Berlin Time/Montreal Time: Activity List 8:45am/2:45am: Wake up. Notice new headcold. 9:30/3:30am: Eat tasty German hotel breakfast with cool people from Paris and Davis. 10:30am/4:30am: Catch a cab to the airport. Drive by funky old looking monument. Ask in (very!) broken German what it is. Turns out it was a victory monument. I thought …
Ich Bin Ein. . .
I never get tired of that joke. I’m off to Germany later today. I will return in a week, hopefully having found something “really cool” for Carrie while on my journey.
And now, for some open access
Ted Striphas writes to say: “Kembrew McLeod and I made an agreement with Taylor & Francis, publisher of our co-edited special issue of Cultural Studies on intellectual property, to release the complete contents for free after 6 months. Well, the 6 months has expired, and K and I now have the PDF files ready for …
Intelligence
I don’t write much about television here, which is silly since we sure do watch enough of it. I joke with Carrie that we are “power users of the television set” — we are all about the PVR (DVR for those of you south of the border) and during the fall have at least one …
But wait, it gets better.
I opened up my email this morning to discover a letter from Sage, to which I link at the end of this post. The gist of it is that my author’s offprints now come as an executable file. I can print forever, off this computer. I can email the file to 25 people and they …
New Text
This one felt like it would take forever to come out, which isn’t fair since it didn’t take longer than other journal articles or book chapters. But it is an early statement of some of the arguments in the new book (which have evolved since then, naturally). It is also the single article for which …