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.
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
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 …
An Open Letter to the Minister of Justice
Earlier this week, the Conservatives rolled out a series of cuts that can only be called vindictive. They targeted programs dear to the Liberals and have no budgetary justification given the massive surplus currently held in federal coffers. One of the programs under attack is the Law Commission of Canada. My colleague, Darin Barney, who …
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Blast From the Past
This morning I opened my email to find a letter from a friend who had stumbled on an essay I wrote over 11 years ago. (Which is a long time when you’re not out of your 30s yet.) Having little idea of what I’d said back then, I investigated. The piece, called “The Many Names …