As I mentioned before, I spent most of the past week in England at a wonderful workshop on race and racism in the current conjuncture. And so all this week’s photos come from that green and pleasant land. Bridges with numbers! Tightly packed gravestones! Brave immigrants! And more surveillance cameras than you can shake a […]
Vienna – Week 27 data dump
Officially, my Fulbright Austria grant at the Diplomatische Akadamie Wien ended last Tuesday. Tomorrow, I’m off to Birmingham (England, not Alabama) for what promises to be an exciting workshop on race and racism in the current conjuncture. And so this is a good moment to update the data dump I shared roughly three months ago. […]
Vienna – Week 16 photo dump
A very full week began with 2.5 days of intense, provocative, productive conversations about AI and free speech of expression (courtesy of the Milton Wolf seminar hosted at the DA) and ended with 2.5 hours of less productive, but enjoyable and powerful in their own way, samples of excellent adult beverages (courtesy of the Vienna […]
Telling You What You Don’t Want to Hear
Last month, I got to experience — briefly, but enjoyably — my first WorldCon in Glasgow. This opportunity came my way courtesy of a kick-ass panel organized by Rachel van der Merwe, where she, Barbara Postema, and Greg Fuller provided the kick-ass bits, and I provided the short riff on Mrs., Davis I’ve shared below. […]
Unfixing the race
Twenty years or so ago, I tried to write a book about multiracial identity and media called Mixed Messages. For a variety of reasons, the book never happened. But one piece of the project did wind up in print as a journal article on Eminem . . . and there was a lecture that went […]
Inside/outside
In 2008, some graduate students at the University of Minnesota organized a small conference on campus called, “Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value.” Part of that conference was a roundtable on “The University and the Public Intellectual,” and somehow I got invited to be a part of the group on the podium for that session. […]
Open access
In 2013, Kembrew McLeod asked me to pinch-hit for him on a roundtable panel — “Open Access Publishing and the Future of Scholarship: A Conversation Between Stakeholders” — at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association. On the downside, this was because Kembrew wasn’t able to attend the conference, and so I didn’t get […]
. . . of Surveillance of the University of Surveillance of the . . .
Dipping back into the archive once more, this time to the “Media in Transition 8” conference held at MIT in 2013. I began this talk with a “joke” intro that (shamelessly) I have used more than once. Partly, because it almost always gets a good laugh. But mostly because, in this case, it was definitely […]
Whose education is it?
As has often been the case when I’ve dived into my digital archives for purposes of this blog, I’d forgotten almost everything about the paper below (presented at the 2012 “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference in Paris). If you’d asked me 24 hours ago, I suspect the only thing I would have remembered about it […]
Sweet dreams
One of my favorite ever conference “presentations” was something that began as a joke. Greg Seigworth (and old friend from grad school) was organizing a conference on affect, and had included a specific request in the call for papers to “Wreck The Format” (WTF) with non-traditional ways of engaging with the conference and its theme. […]