Posted in Blogging, tagged sports on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
After reading Tyler Kepner’s article in the Times today about Phil Hughes’s blog (http://philhughes.wordpress.com), I wonder how many other MLB pitchers besides he and Curt Schilling maintain blogs - rather than issue on-line ‘updates’ about how they are doing.
I think Hughes’s blog is kind of refreshing, because it’s not a big PR job or exercise [...]
Posted in Academia, Actor-Network Theory, Environment, tagged Latour on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bruno Latour spoke this evening to an overflow crowd on the topic of ‘Ecology and Democracy.’ The main substance of his talk was devoted to a largely sympathetic discussion of Break Through, the recently published book (here’s a Wired review) by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, in which they take up the argument that they [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged meme on February 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I was trying to take advantage of a snow day by staying in, catching up on reading, and not blogging to improve my lagging academic productivity…only to spend the day napping, reading other blogs (rather than writing on my own), and late in the hour seeing this over at Scatterplot.
Geez, resistance is futile.
Anyway, I’ve been [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, tagged recollections on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Earlier tonight I was having dinner with a small group of friends whom I’ve known for almost 10 years, although I’ve known some better than others. We’ve each been living in New York for at least that long, and have seen one another either individually or in groups on many different occasions over the years.
Yet, [...]
Posted in Conferences, tagged Talks on February 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
For the local folks, a couple of good talks / events coming up at the Heyman Center that are worth checking out:
Language, Culture, and Power
Saturday, February 23, 2008, 4:15pm
1512 International Affairs Building
Dipesh Chakrabarthy, Arjun Appadurai, and Sheldon Pollock, will engage in a round table discussion on “Philology, Theory, History,” as part of the [...]
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