Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization. Lawrence Harte, Introduction to MPEG and a CD: Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist More news coming. I’m back, my cat is still alive, and I am officially (well, liminally until my card comes in the mail) a permanent resident.
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Quiet Time
Apologies for the flurry of posts and then disappearing. It’s been an extremely busy time with talks and a pile of miscellanous reading (theses, dissertation chapters, journal submissions, tenure dossiers), punctuated by a number of domestic crises this week: our apartment flooded in two separate places and at two different times (the waters have been …
And now a few words on class, social class that is
I’ve always thought of some of what academics do as “playing at” being of a higher social class than we are. Major field-wide conferences [cough]NCA![/cough]are held at hotels so expensive that they decimate university travel budgets. Groups of academics routinely go out to meals at these events that they can’t really afford. Broke job candidates …
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Satisfaction
–A good seminar. I taught a formalist text, old school humanities style. Lots of student participation and good conversation. –Drink with students after class at Thomson House. I love Thomson House. It’s so much cooler than the faculty club. –Burrito Nite ][. We tend to make a big batch of something on Sunday so it …
More Thoughts on Violence
This is just an addendum. When I said “Americans,” I should have said “white Americans” and middle class white Americans to boot. I think it was Jerry G. Watts who, in an edited collection on the riots following the Rodney King verdict, wrote about the considerably more precarious experience of being poor and black in …
Somebody Sold Us Out
I just ended our second telemarking call in three days, after receiving no such calls in over two years of Quebec residence. I suspect that someone has recently sold (and bought) our information. And unless someone can correct me, Canada is behind the U.S. in at least one respect: in the U.S. we were able …
Part Deux
Okay, perhaps it’s boring to read a post about the parking lot near (I hesitate to say “at”) Ikea. But it’s the internet. So I get to write it, and you get to skip it. Onto rock music, rivers and apples. Sunday night found us back in the apartment, predictably lethargic after our outing. But …