Procrastadabbler

The NYTimes Magazine had an article today about how gay men in their 20s are getting married. The author, who is gay, interviewed a number of twenty something men who have or are getting married in Massachusetts. The article itself is interesting in that he explores the changing face of what it means to be [...]

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Have you ever noticed how some people love to pontificate. I know I tend to do it in my classroom sometimes. I mean, gee, I’ve got a captive audience. But lately I’ve noticed there are some people who always have something to say no matter what the occasion. It’s always the same people, and I’m [...]

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The blog/column of Stanley Fish for the NY Times is always an engaging read. This week he’s taking on postmodernism/deconstructionism of the French variety. Just as fun as Dr. Fish’s mental meanderings are the responses of his readers.

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There is a fascinating article in today’s NYTimes about the ways cell/mobile phone technology is being used by impoverished people in third world countries. The reporter explores how having a cell phone number is often the only fixed public identity marker some people may have, that having a cell phone allows people greater access to [...]

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I’ve been reading the articles in a special issue of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography about autoethnography (analytic autoethnography in particular) in preparation for revising my race/space autoeth. The authors are problematizing (don’t we academics love that word) autoethnography and the dichotomy (another good word) between the evocative and the analytic. Just read one article that [...]

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