Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?
In the spirit of understanding “social and professional imaginaries,” here’s a link to a short piece I did on In These Times, “Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?” The punchline is that neither...
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The Habitus of the New
Inspired by an exchange between Zizi and Tom that began just after our first workshop in 2011, I asked if we could use Zizi’s idea (itself built on Bourdieu’s work) of the “habitus of the new” as the...
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On Streeter’s The Net Effect: A Culture Digitally Dialogue
In this Culture Digitally dialogue, we discuss Thomas Streeter’s book The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (New York University Press 2011), part of the “Critical Cultural...
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Internet [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
“the blurriness in how we use “internet” has a history and a function: it has allowed the word to become a metonymy – a part that stands for the whole – for a complex, shifting, intertwined mix of...
View ArticleReflections on technology and the 2016 elections
Way back in 2008, Off the Bus reporter Mayhill Fowler filed a report on an appearance by Hillary Clinton during that spring’s Democratic primary. The piece opens with a quote: “‘Being here this morning...
View Articleat Culture Digitally, we’re thinking about our scholarship in the harsh light...
Yesterday was a surprising, difficult day for a lot of us. For many of us based in the U.S., amidst whatever political feelings we were having, it spurred us to think hard about our own work and...
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