A great post about what is occluded in the term “placement” over at the Edge of the American West seems really timely, given the bad job market this past year. Mostly I just agree with it even though it’s more about history than Comm Studies. I would add that the placement statistic also reifies the …
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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 …
“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 …
Instead of blogging on the road, I did some light editing on my book (oh yeah, that) and wrote two position papers for the upcoming conference at the University of Virginia: “Connections: Media Studies and the New Interdisciplinarity.” They’re both pretty fast and loose, though, so they’re perfect for a blog. As I sometimes say …
This is overdue, but I am pleased to announce two new blogs on the future of books by friends who are also publishing books on books this summer, Andrew Piper and Ted Striphas. See: The Book Report and The Late Age of Print and on a not-totally-unrelated topic: Money/Speech — Okay, I’m off to California …
So recently in my travels I encountered a colleague who has ascended to a high level administrative post at his school. We know each other as scholars and are academic friends. He’s the kind of person who I’m happy to see at a conference and with whom I’m happy to share a drink when the …
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