You know how people sometimes post really personal stuff on social media and then say “I might delete this later?” Yeah, this is one of those posts. The update: I am surviving ok at home. I’m in some kind of steady state where I am not in immediate danger, but I also hate this. My …
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I’ve got some gigs coming up. These will probably be my last in Montreal until sometime later in 2025, since I’m away on sabbatical. Though there’s always a chance of a brief return visit. Tl;dr: Jonathan Sterne solo synth act, Saturday 15 June 2024, 5:30pm Hard Red Spring, Wednesday 19 June, 8:00pm Volte, Monday 19 …
So this post echoes my insane fall of applications post. First of all: probably nobody should ever apply for 11 things like I did. But it was a hell of a good year professionally. Tl;dr: we will be in two places next year. Carrie will be based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral …
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I’ve just completed a period of intense conferencing. Three in-person conferences in five weeks. Plus a number of Zoom talks on top of it. For me, it was wonderfully social and intellectual. In addition to getting to meet and see work by a new generation of grad students and assistant profs, whom I’d not “discovered” …
Starter Pack I now have a starter pack I send to welcome BIPOC people, especially femmes, who are questioning whether they might be autistic, filled with essays, memes, hashtags, and online assessment tools. Many people with all kinds of disabilities are doing the same thing, even when we also pursue an official diagnosis—the first hints …
New Text Here’s a new interview with me about Diminished Faculties. And I have a newish piece with Mehak Sawhney on machine listening and the will to datafy. I’ll get it up on the site, but if you’re at a university, your library should get Kalfou. Happy to email PDFs to people, too. Just ask. …
Let’s get back to it. There’s catching up to do but in the meantime, I invite you to join me in the middle. Here are some thoughts from the past week. Reproducibility As part of my Interfaces seminar this term, I am having students do their projects around a process I called “hermeneutic reverse-engineering” (this …
