In Sunday’s forthcoming NY Times. I can’t talk much (or really at all on the phone) but I can answer questions over email. The conversation was considerably longer than the quote, of course, but I am interested in the idea of the web as a more or less silent medium that is punctuated by sound. …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
On Language (Attitude Part 2)
M sent me this nice New York Times Blog piece. The language critique seems spot on, though I am still waiting for a proper “Politics and the English Language” of cancer. I think the author may also have gone a little too far in the “language can never describe it” direction, since of course language …
What’s that Steven Wright joke about “around the block?”
First day off the ‘roids. I don’t know if they’re out of my system yet but I successfully took a short nap. Every day’s a new thing, though. This whole discover-my-body-all-over-again thing just keeps morphing. I can’t tell if it’s like some hippie drug experiment or puberty. Or both. Since yesterday afternoon, I’ve been getting …
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New Text
“Rearranging the Files: On Interpretation in Communication History,” The Communication Review 13:1 (Spring 2010): 75-87. Part of a special issue called “Writing from the Archive: Thinking About Media History.” I’m in good company in the ToC, and the other essays are well worth a look. Readers with a university affiliation and a VPN may have …
The Vegetarian Low Iodine Diet and Strategies for Surviving Radioactive Iodine Treatment With The Aid of Consumer Electronics
I’ve written a bit about our adventures with the low-iodine diet, or as carnivorous Carrie calls it, “worse than vegan.” This post is for search engines and the vegetarian thyroid cancer patients who may use them in anticipation of radioactive iodine treatment, but of course you’re welcome to read on if you don’t fall in …
Cancer Crawl, 13 March
This is the email I sent out to my distribution list today. Now, for a high-iodine lunch! — Dear Friends and Colleagues, Here’s the latest cancer update. For those of you following the blog (http://superbon.net – I’m on a roll) the RAI news immediately below the headlines is old news. HEADLINES: I was really radioactive, …
Free!
I’m down to 10 microsieverts per hour so I’m free to go. But no public appearances for 3 days as I can’t be near pregnant women and you never know who’s pregnant. So Carrie’s doing the shopping. Also, I can’t prepare food for you and you can’t snuggle with my neck for 3 days. Also …