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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Administered Uncertainty

1 Comment Posted by on July 31, 2008

We have this university online environment we are compelled to use for classes.

Professional Life, Teaching, Technology

Back in the Day

3 Comments Posted by on July 28, 2008

Some of the folks teaching into the social science methods course were having a conversation today about how teaching ages you. Instantly. In the minds of your students, that is – students to whom you immediately achieve the status of a historical contemporary of whatever it is you are discussing in class. My favourite instance [...]

Overheard, Teaching

The (Updated) Gist

10 Comments Posted by on July 24, 2008

For those who have despaired of finding time to read my thesis drafts, perhaps a Wordle of the first chapter might convey the gist: Hat tip Dead Voles. I wonder if I can submit one of these in place of an abstract? Perhaps I should ask Wildly, who has a post up with the alarming [...]

Links, Procrastination

Social Research

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 23, 2008

So it’s been a somewhat gruelling couple of weeks, getting everything together for the two methods courses I’m covering this term. The undergraduate course, since it’s new and we were designing it from scratch, took the lion’s share of the time – although it was nice to be able to work alongside the ultra-competent (and [...]

Links, Methodology, Social Science, Teaching

A Draft Life

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 16, 2008

I’m still assembling material for the undergraduate social science research methods course L Magee and I will be coordinating this term. I stumbled across this lovely story in one of the works I was reading: As we were preparing this second edition, Booth got a call from a former student who, as had all of [...]

Teaching, Writing

Some Disassembly Required

1 Comment Posted by on July 13, 2008

Recovering from a severe cold and drowning in work at the moment, so posting is likely to be… light and airy. I did want to archive a quick note here about one of the questions asked in response to the Derrida Today presentation – no new content, but just pulling together some old content in [...]

Critical Theory, Events, Fetish, Marxes, Metatheory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Transformation

Impure Inheritances

1 Comment Posted by on July 11, 2008

Below the fold is something like the text delivered on Friday afternoon to the Derrida Today conference. This is a jointly-authored piece, delivered by NP, co-written with the appropriately recently-deceased, and therefore undeconstructibly spectral, Praxis Blog. Those who have been following along in the blog discussion leading up to this talk will realise that what [...]

Conversations, Critical Theory, Critique, Drafts, Events, Fetish, Marxes, Materialism, Political Economy, Technology

Flying Furby

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 7, 2008

Blogging may be light this week, as I have travelled to the wilds of Sydney in advance of the Derrida Today conference. I have a severe cold, which will hopefully have subsided before I need to present, but which is currently enabling me to view my surroundings through a disjointed, slightly surreal, lens. So en [...]

Overheard, Procrastination

Micro-Methods

6 Comments Posted by on July 3, 2008

So it’s looking as though L Magee and I (with the assistance of others who just might be lurking, and who are welcome to out themselves if they so choose ;-P) will be responsible for a second-year undergraduate social science methods course, with an emphasis on qualitative research. This is the sister course to the [...]

Teaching

Moving In

13 Comments Posted by on July 3, 2008

I often work on my laptop in the coffee shop.

Coffee, Overheard

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