At a lecture given by Vincent Leitch, head editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism the other day among a number of insightful, interesting things he pointed out(1), was the consideration of many English departments (certainly not just Cultural Studies departments) toward rebranding themselves as Media Studies.(2) It makes sense. You already have [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Drinking that good old Leitch-ee tea.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural studies on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In-class Procasturbation
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The students in the course I TA, with their armadas of blinking, whirring Vaios, Dells and iMacs find any number distractions in order to ignore lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays. Mostly they bury their noses in facebook, myspace, failblog, fmylife and I’ve seen, I kid you not, porn. The only one I’ve managed to catch [...]
