In print I have had some harsh words to say about the so-called Toronto School’s treatment of sound (that’s so-called “Canadian School” to some Americans, but pretend I didn’t say that) in the concept of orality, and I shall have a few more in print shortly. But in preparation for that, I’ve taken a couple …
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Oddly, I started this post in spring of 2008 and it has sat in my drafts folder for a year, but now I feel compelled to complete it. Don’t want to read about teeth? There are two awesome comments under the gentrification post. Spring 2008 Part A root canal procedure is not how I’d recommend …
Many Canadian Internet Service Providers practice traffic shaping during high-usage periods, which means that while they may sell you a connection at a particular speed (e.g., 10mbps), they may actively slow down your connection if you are using peer to peer software or doing something else they don’t like. To be clear: the regulation issue …
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“James Carey and Resistance to Cultural Studies in North America,” Cultural Studies 23:2 (March 2009): 283-286. “Enemy Voice,” Social Text #96 25:3 (September 2008): 79-100. (this is the long-under-revision essay about recordings of Osama bin Laden; electronic copy not yet available on my end)
In comparing our building–a redone calendar factory–with the other dwellings in our neighborhood–more typical Montreal brick duplexes or triplexes–I often joke that we are the gentrifiers. But it’s actually not a joke at all. I knew this intellectually, but now it’s been driven home for me. We are now literally (in the literal sense of …
The academic gloom-and-doom stories are moving north. Fresh off a New York Times story about new PhDs having trouble finding jobs in a year when so many searches are being cancelled, the Globe and Mail reports (a few years too late) that maybe minting all those extra PhDs wasn’t such a great idea after all. …
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“How records are made” — sent to me by a colleague. That’s right: it’s not the concert performance, it’s a “planned illusion!” How did a 1956 corporate documentary get it right when so many scholars have gotten it wrong? (Original source; http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS)
