Posted in Sociology on June 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I have to confess that until about 6 months ago, I had read very little of Howard Becker’s work. Then I came across his charming web site (well, I find it charming at any rate) and started dropping in every so often to read his articles and essays, some of them unpublished, apparently. He’s even [...]
Posted in Blogging, General Thoughts, Sociology on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Why does Memorial Day always feel like New Year’s to me? It’s about now that I both want to waste time and attempt to atone for all the things I failed to get done over the past nine months…ah, might as well blog.
So, in any event, over the holiday I finally got a chance to [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Music, Okinawa, Sociology on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thinking about the forms of musical genre led me, once again, to YouTube, where I ended up spending an unhealthy chunk of my day watching videos of Okinawan music - especially the contemporary stuff, which provides a case study, I think, in the importance of hybrid form and spiraling trajectories rather than clear progression. Even [...]
Posted in Grad School, Sociology, tagged sleep on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Having frittered away a considerable amount of my April on things like furniture shopping and mindless reading, I realized late last week that the semester’s end is looming, and that my paper for my Contextualization seminar is in no better shape than it was in January, when I submitted my initial proposal to join the [...]
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 [...]
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