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Category Archives: Reading

IWWWW

30-May-11

In Seattle for a few days of amazing food and friends. Yesterday, finished reading Cory Doctorow’s second book, For the Win. It was so good! I felt excited but sad and listless after. I wish it were just a little shorter because then I think I could teach it. It’s an amazing introduction to Marxist [...]

This, and That

03-Apr-09

I’m pretending I’m an art student today, hanging out in the very pretty but comfortable offices over at Steinhardt, doing work and drinking tea.  When I imagine an alternate life at an imaginary university in Europe somewhere, my imaginary office looks a lot like the one I’m in right now — stacks of magazines, slide [...]

Win Some, Lose Some

26-Feb-09

In bad news, I got called a moralistic, over-wrought navel-gazer. In good news, blog stats are up and visits have quadrupled in the past few days. I’ll take it! Welcome new readers, hope you remembered to bring your bongs. I decided not to weigh in over there since I felt trying to defend myself or [...]

Ghost Stories

24-Feb-09

I haven’t quite been able to wrap my head around the conversation about racism over at scatterplot. One thought I’ve had is that the pain inflicted by the cartoon under question, the pain of viewing the cartoon for people who know that monkey means them, has gone largely unacknowledged by those who question the racist [...]

Just Perfect

19-Feb-09

In my search for classic texts in sociology, I wound up uncovering the Pelican Project. Put together by things magazine, the project is a collection of beautiful covers from Pelican press, including the above. The covers are organized by decade, and then year. Why can’t books still look like this?

Reading List?

17-Feb-09

Our favorite local university librarian who lunches has requested a list of “classic/core” texts in sociology. I assembled the list below — additions anyone? I’m also compiling a secret subterfuge list of books that should but probably never will be as widely taught. The doors are wide open on that one for suggestions as well. [...]

Study Break

11-Dec-08

In which I take a break from my usual grind to engage in some study. The arrival of a book I’d ordered months ago and forgotten about, White Logics, White Methods: Racism & Methodology, has sent me on a Google Scholar chase that thus far knows no limit. Especially occupying my mind: Tracking down Eduardo [...]

Your Lucky Day

18-Jun-08

Chris Caruso, whom I know through the Tech Fellow program of which we are both part, has put together an amazing web project. Chris coordinated a team of people to videotape the weekly lectures from David Harvey’s “Reading Marx’s Capital” course last fall. Now the 55 hours of tape are edited, and Chris is putting [...]

Tuesdays With Mannies

11-Jun-08

The temperature seems to have returned to something resembling a habitat suitable for human life, which I’m happy about, as I’m planning to be out and around on my bike later. Though first I need to fix a flat — the second in one week! Defying everything I know about having (and keeping) a bike [...]

You Wish Your Bed Was Already Made

09-Jun-08

I’m not totally ready for it to be Monday. I think I achieved a good balance this weekend between doing work and having fun, but does this every get easy? Does any academic ever hit an automatic stride in which you’ve figured out how to get enough work done, how to feel like you’ve gotten [...]