The good news, I just figured out the transitions between chapters 3 and 4, and chapters 5 and 6. The bad news: the final piece in the puzzle that’s been the structure of my book occurred to me as I was falling asleep. Two pages of frenzied writing later, I am wide awake. Time to …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
This year’s search
As with last year’s search, I’m making an exception to the “I don’t post ads here” policy for the home team. Pass it along to anyone you know who fits the bill. We are looking for someone doing cool, innovative, theoretically sophisticated work. —— ART HISTORY — The Department of Art History and Communication Studies …
Misc.
A quick miscellaneous entry: — the Montréal list keeps expanding. We may need to supplement with a “top 10.” I am trying to convince Carrie to be the curator. — Yesterday I had an interesting discussion about why women finish their books later than men do. Future subject of an academe post, no doubt — …
Yes, I still hate expressvu
I am currently sitting on hold with Bell Expressvu at (what I hope is) the end of a 50 minute phone call to deal with the exact same problems I had in December. They are still billing us for service at our old address, and they still owe us over $500. If someone stole $500 …
Can scholars get a cut?
Over at Differences and Repetitions, Ted Striphas wonders whether authors in academic publishing could change the industry the way comic book authors did: So what might we do to improve the situation for academic authors? We might take a cue from the comic book industry. In the 1990s, star writers and illustrators such as Todd …
When good software goes bad
Somewhere in these pages I have extolled the virtues of Entourage as an email client. I used to be a devotee of Eudora, but I switched over to allow Entourage to interface more fully with McGill’s exchange server. Plus, I liked how it integrated email, calendar and address book. But today, somehow, my “database” got …
New Tape Will Make Your Life Easier
Here’s a promo for RCA’s first go at the cassette concept.