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Differences & Repetitions · 10M ago

…in Translation

Great news, y’all. A couple of weeks ago I received a copy of the Korean translation of my book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control! I’m thrilled, needless to say, and even a bit surprised. Last summer the publisher of the English language edition, Columbia Univ
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

The Billion Dollar Book

About a week ago Michael Eisen, who teaches evolutionary biology at UC Berkeley, blogged about a shocking discovery one of his postdocs had made in early April. The discovery happened not in his lab, but of all places on Amazon.com. While searching the site for a copy of Peter Lawrence’s book The Ma
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

CFP — Academic Labor

International Journal of Communication Academic Labor & Administration in Communication Studies Special Section Edited by Jonathan Sterne, McGill University Academic labor today is characterized by a series of disconcerting trends: an increasingly casualized professoriate; universities that increasi
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

Algorithmic Culture, Redux

Back in June I blogged about “Algorithmic Culture,” or the sorting, classifying, and hierarchizing of people, places, objects, and ideas using computational processes. (Think Google search, Amazon’s product recommendations, who gets featured in your Facebook news feed, etc.) Well, for the past sever
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

Cultural Studies in the Future Tense

My mentor and dear friend Lawrence Grossberg recently published a great new book with Duke University Press, Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. I’ll be reviewing it here in the next few weeks or months, but for now I wanted to link to a podcast from The Critical Lede.  The hosts Ben Myers and Des
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

Now in Paperback

Whew!  Since launching D&R more than five years ago, not a month has gone by in which I’ve not blogged here.  Well, it almost happened this month.  Apologies for all the quiet around here as I’ve settled back into teaching and even deeper into fatherhood.  I’m glad I made it in under the wire. I [..
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

We Are All Salespeople Now

On December 9th, the website Patently Apple, which monitor’s the computer maker’s patent applications, came across a filing for an intriguing new application sharing feature.  In a nutshell, it would allow iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac apps (coming in 2011) to be downloaded not only from Apple’s
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

Debate on the Future of Higher Ed

Culture Machine, probably the most innovative open access cultural studies journal around, is hosting a debate on the future of higher education.  It’s very Important stuff.  Check it out! The Culture Machine debate on the future of higher education in the UK and internationally, and on the position
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

“Harry Potter Grows Up”: The Meaning Behind a Cliché

For those of you who aren’t familiar with The Late Age of Print, the final chapter of the book focuses on the extraordinary literary sensation that is Harry Potter. So, needless to say, Harry Potter has been on my mind quite a bit lately, especially with today’s release of the first installment of t
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Differences & Repetitions · 1Y ago

The Future of the Humanities

This video made the rounds last week on Facebook.  I’m sharing it here for those of you who may have missed it (or who want to watch it again).  It offers a tragicomic glimpse into the cynicism that pervades the academic humanities these days — a result of poor job prospects for many, limited fundin
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