A little slow to note this, but our good friend Rod McLaren managed to take one of Wrights & Sites Mis-Guided tours and had a wonderful time.
“Outside the ICA, we talk of Paris as an invisible city overlaid on London - lovely … The team consults the maps at Trafalgar Square, the ground-zero of roads, […]
The City of GalvezOscar Guzmán
“The images of the City of Galvez constitute a document of a place that exists at some level of Reality. Galvez, with its famous Floating Cupolas, its capricious architecture and its advanced methods of urban transport, constitutes a peculiar document: Despite having characteristics of a photographic record, the images of Galvez […]
The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order
“Ms. Vargas works not in a restaurant but in a busy call center in [Santa Maria], 150 miles from Los Angeles. She and as many as 35 others take orders remotely from 40 McDonald’s outlets around the country. The orders are then sent back to the restaurants by Internet, […]
From the London Review of Books: In Paris (print version)
“The designer Calum Storrie has just published a book called The Delirious Museum. His starting point is the belief that the museum should be a continuation of the street – as easy to enter, as amusing to pass through. This concept is possible in Britain where […]
If you read this blog, what makes a good job or postdoc ad? Thinking of a sociology department for example, what would you respond to?
Attracting Theory Talent
Retheorizing Sociology …an incisive and creative theorist whose engagement with the tradition of sociological theory and analysis is informed by poststructural and other contemporary debates such […]