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Now that I’ve switched from Comcast to AT&T, and seem to only watch pre-recorded programs off the DVR, I’ve become a little more attuned to the importance of the commercial break. We may say we hate it, but when it’s gone, or artificially eliminated rather, it’s hard to shake the feeling that something important is [...]
In a remarkable scene in the first season of The Wire, Det. Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) follows “Stringer” (Idris Elba) the consigliere to what turns out to be an NYU macroeconomics course. It’s an astonishing discovery — for the viewer, of course, but also for McNulty. When he checks the placard on the door, he [...]
Zsuzsanna Vargha, a sociology PhD student at Columbia (–currently guest-blogging over at Socializing Finance), has made available a draft chapter from her forthcoming dissertation on client-customer interaction at a Hungarian bank. Her choice of field site couldn’t be more timely. For all the scholarship on consumption and the commodity, much less seems to have [...]
Surprising no one, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s new entry for the “Philosophy of Technology” severely under-reports contributions from the continental tradition. Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, and Latour are confined to parentheses, and folks like Deleuze, Benjamin(!), and Serres go completely unmentioned. This is no doubt to be expected — the introduction to the entry [...]
A brilliant case of analytic sophistry can be observed unfolding in the counterpetition to the petition to reform the American Philosophical Association’s current failure to exclude, or at least reprimand, academic institutions that explicitly their staff from engaging in “homosexual acts”. Basically, as the counterpetition puts it, accurately it would seem,
The American Philosophical Association currently [...]
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