Wow. I don’t know how I missed it before, but there are serious goings-on at New York University. As you may know, the Labor Relations Board did an about-face and basically said that because NYU is private, it does not have to recognize a TA union. Thus, when it came time to negotiate a new …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
A Taste of Canadian Racism
Well, after all that stuff about the Milwaukee paper, here’s a letter to the editor straight outta 1845 from today’s Globe and Mail — authored by one Wayne Valeau of Calgary: The Black-Eyed Peas are a perfect fit for the CFL (Imported Peas — editorial, Nov. 29). What we saw at the Grey Cup’s half-time …
The Latest RIAA PR
“Owning music is so last century.” I’ve read versions of this quote at least three times in the last week. It sounds all hip and progressive, like our options now are so much better than owning CDs. Take the followup from a SF Chronicle Article quoted by my friend Steven Rubio: They’re overpriced, ugly and …
Report on the Ongoing Canadianization Project
The Milwaukee trip over thanksgiving was its usual pleasure (though this was our first trip to Milwaukee for said purpose). One of my colleagues commented that she found Americans’ devotion to thanksgiving bizarre, a sentiment echoed by other Canadians I’ve met. I don’t have a profound answer except to say that like Halloween (my other …
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Reading + New Pub + Meditations on Communication Studies
This week’s reading for my Repetition seminar was particularly easy (compared with the thicker theoretical stuff we’ve been doing), but I found it quite refreshing, actually. Probably because the authors are quite clever. Anyway, this was a good thing, because next week we’re going to slog through Derrida’s differance essay. That should be fun in …
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A Few Quick Thoughts Before Collapsing
— The first half of the Indy-Cincinnati game today was the best 30 minutes of football I’ve seen all year. Absolutely astoundingly good. — My hotel in Boston was located near two stores I really wanted to visit, the Hello Kitty Store and Daddy’s Junky Music. The former, well, the less I say about that, …
Big Day
Okay, it’s not really that big of a day. I go to a faculty meeting with this huge pile of proposed courses and chaanges to the grad curriculum and hopefully they all get passed.(1) Then Carrie and I get on a plane to Boston for a conference–the National Communication Association (U.S.). It’ll be nice to …