On December 16th, my friend and colleague Trevor Pinch passed away. Plenty of people knew Trevor better than I did. But Trevor helped me to understand what it means to be a person in the academic world. The most important thing I learned from Trevor is gratitude. I don’t mean the platitudinous “practicing gratitude” thing …
Category Archives: Text
On proceduralism and disability
Last week Collegeland had a podcast on universities denying accommodations to faculty, staff and students that featured guests Bess Williamson, Aimi Hamraie, and me. It’s recommended listening if you are interested in higher education and the politics of disability. While I was away in the forest, I finally got an email from McGill’s HR acknowledging …
Read the Intro to Diminished Faculties
My new book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment, will be out December-ish from Duke University Press. But you can read the intro now. Right now, in fact.
A Simple Guide to Hybrid Classes for Teachers
This is a guide to setting up audio and video for hybrid courses, especially seminars. This based on some research I did this summer: I asked friends who have genuine expertise in the area, and with my partner Carrie Rentschler and our friend and colleague Darin Barney, we ran some audio experiments with Darin on …
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On Resistance to Better Academic Writing
A recent Facebook post by John Sloop asked why academic writing isn’t better–more creative, more varied, more polished. This has been on my mind lately, as I spent a month in March with the copyedits to Diminished Faculties. On one hand, the book is very intentionally academic. With A Political Phenomenology of Impairment as a …
More Locked Down TV Reviews
It’s been a year. My god we’ve watched a lot of television. Here are some short reviews in no particular order. My taste barely makes sense to me, so your mileage may vary. Carrie won’t watch cringe comedy, so we have missed out on some stuff that other people really like. — Superman & Lois: …
Pot Beans, Or: Is this now also a food blog?
Because of the general shitness of internet recipe blogs, all food entries will begin with a link like this: I just want the damn recipe. So, about food. Among other things, my drugs have profoundly affected my diet. When we can start eating out again, I am going to be even less fun than before. …
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