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google strings are funny sometimes
Keyword search someone used to arrive at the previous entry: “what is the purpose of an axel in a machine?” Well, Axel, what do you have to say for yourself?
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Jürgen on YouTube
An interview with Jürgen Habermas on YouTube: So, Habermas comes to the interweb. Or does he? There are those who say he still doesn’t quite get it, but I think there is much in his more recent work that–perhaps against his will–allows for a non-broadcast, networked model of the public sphere and a re-evaluation of…
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What I’m up to
I’m about 6 weeks into my postdoc, so what I’ve been up to lately is a lot of background research and planning. The immediate goal has been to develop a coherent 2-3 year program of research that builds on my previous work, advances the field and helps to fulfil the ambitions of the Federation Fellowship…
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DJ Spooky at the European Graduate School
One of several European Graduate School videos featuring famous Capital-T Theory dudes available at YouTube. (Thanks Glen). This presentation by DJ Spooky aka Paul Miller on the theory and practice of Rhythm Science is my favourite.
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another video experiment
Thought I’d share a couple of quite silly stop motion animations made using Boinx iStopMotion and the iSight on my MacBook Pro. I plan to do something a bit more purposeful with the software one of these days, but I was quite pleased with what I managed to achieve in an idle hour or so…
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Postdoc positions in gender and science
Three one-year postdoctoral research jobs at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of about 20 researchers from different disciplines. We are now recruiting additional post-docs for full-time, one-year positions. Successful applicants have some kind of “double” competence – gender research and science…
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i am such a nerd…
I made this today with my built-in iSight, Gawker and iMovie. Weird to see how you spend your day! Plus, I need to find time to get my hair cut.
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it’s new, it’s now.
Kodak-au-go-go!
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be still my retro heart
This steampunk keyboard does all kinds of unspeakably pleasurable things to me. Steampunk, by the way, is defined by the maker as the practice “wherein the craftsman demonstrates the construction of artifacts from an age of steam and brass”, and also refers to a genre of speculative fiction: The term denotes works set in an…
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Cultural Studies: PhD Fellowship in India
via the email: The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) offers a fellowship awarded by SEPHIS to a student from any country in the South to spend one academic year in Bangalore, India, beginning July 2007. The main purpose of the fellowship programme is to help develop alternative frameworks for research and…