Monthly Archives: February 2007
why dont we ask this when you walk into a levi stores or a lifestyle mall?
Note – sometimes posts and pages on this blog are password protected – if you are interested in reading and participating in those select discussions – email me and I might consider sending you a password.
If not – keep guessing:)
Usually – I leave most posts unprotected for about 5 to 6 hours (sometimes even more [...]
Protected: continuing conversations …. finding the ruptures
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practices of gifting on facebook…
Of course both dana and frank have already detailed their analysis and viewpoints on this… I always appreciate how they blog about the most recent practices and journal their viewpoint and analysis – this becomes useful to me and my advisees as we continue our cyberethnographic explorations.
I have been gifting like crazy – sorta – [...]
you on your gmail chat
me on mine
sometimes finishing each other’s sentences – sometimes just seeing that the other is “available” or “idle”
Its morning for me – snowed in
Its night for you – children probably finally asleep
we sing together
we hum together
we fight
we argue
you sleep happy
I move on with my day happy
the two wooden boxes..
these wooden boxes travelled with us
at least my memories say they did
one smelled of the village my parents grew up in
invoking unremembered affective [...]
Gayathri Gopinath
Gayathri was here for the Provost Lecture Series – but of course because of the snow storm it had to be crammed in before nightfall.
So I waded through the snow in the Corolla and met her for lunch with V, D, S and M at Cohen and Cooke -and then after that we had the [...]
Protected: quote – relevant to dialogues with s, l, sh and a – thinking through representational practices and voic[e](ings)
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intertextually yours…
see http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/02/08/kumaari/
South Indian classical singing and mocking of the figure of the non-modern South Indian Brahmin play out in different ways in each of these clips – but both center around the notion of romancing the heroine and relate to modernity and the image of the westernized woman with “class”…
