Well, I’m back from a wonderful trip to NYU. My hosts were outstanding, the students were a lot of fun, and I always find it gratifying to give talks in music departments. I presented a section on the history of psychacoustics and people seem to really be getting it. I also find that presenting something …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Two Links
First, to a brilliant post by Dave Noon. Second, to a History of the GEO. I was working on my opening lines for NYU this morning and went looking for my own grad union’s history and there is was. It took us 10 years from start to recognition, and I was involved Fall of 1993-Spring …
Two More Weeks of Twenty-Four
and Carrie still leads 7-2-2. But here’s a question: is it a coincidence that the well-meaning but meddlesome bureaucrat is named Lynn McGill? I think not.
With No Further Delay,
(Charlie Bertsch and) I give you Bad Subjects #74: Intermedia, which features contributions from a few familiar faces and some new ones. It’s also got some of my favorite features of Bad Subjects issues in years past — “open” contributions, interviews, and of course, an article on the Christian right. — Fred’s visit was outstanding. …
New Book Chapter + More
And now for an academic entry. Another one-off piece has appeared: “Transportation and Communication: Together as You’ve Always Wanted Them,” in Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History, eds. Jeremy Packer and Craig Robertson, 117-35. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. I haven’t done a run-through for typos but I will say that the …
Ever Play Zork?
Yes, I was a geeky teenager with friends who had Commodore 64s. There’s a great spoof of Bush playing Zork here. If I had the time, I’d do a Paul Martin version. >HOLD HEARINGS
One Other Thing
Yesterday was “national answer your cat’s question day.” I hope you did. If not, it’s never too late.