The first rule of everything: never get cocky. Within a few days of my announcement that everything was stable with The Drugs and The Cancer, I developed an upset stomach. Like very upset, like I couldn’t digest much of anything. Also very painful cramps. And it kept going. I’m used to that happening every so …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Read the Intro to Diminished Faculties
My new book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment, will be out December-ish from Duke University Press. But you can read the intro now. Right now, in fact.
Aaaand, some good news
The latest cancer update is that after this week’s CT scan, everything is steady and controlled, which is how it’s been for awhile. Sometimes I wonder if I should even keep doing these updates unless something goes south. Here’s where we are at. I’m on a kind of oral chemotherapy called a TKI. It works …
A Simple Guide to Hybrid Classes for Teachers
This is a guide to setting up audio and video for hybrid courses, especially seminars. This based on some research I did this summer: I asked friends who have genuine expertise in the area, and with my partner Carrie Rentschler and our friend and colleague Darin Barney, we ran some audio experiments with Darin on …
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A Former Chair on The Chair
First, the best thing I’ve read on The Chair is Karen Tongson’s piece. Go read it now if you haven’t. We finished The Chair last night and since every academic in my social media feed has a take, here are my hot takes. No spoilers. 1. I still think the most interesting campus drama would …
Mixed Pfeelings on the Pfizer Shot
So today I got the first Pfizer shot, and an appointment for the second one on my birthday in August. I’ll take it as a present. When I learned I was eligible Monday and called to make an appointment, it occasioned an actual adrenaline hit to my system. This morning, I woke up like a …
On Resistance to Better Academic Writing
A recent Facebook post by John Sloop asked why academic writing isn’t better–more creative, more varied, more polished. This has been on my mind lately, as I spent a month in March with the copyedits to Diminished Faculties. On one hand, the book is very intentionally academic. With A Political Phenomenology of Impairment as a …