April 2012
4 posts
American Studies tone poem
Meta-narrative, situate, decolonization imperative,
practice tradition, poetics, historical silences,
attending to, locate, erotics, colonial,
selfhood, coded, authorial strategy,
engagement, accommodation, raced,
problematize the frontier,
ideological interruption of the master narrative.
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Price Fixing
I think price fixing is still illegal no matter what your reasons or motivations for doing it. I’ve been following the response to the Justice Department’s suit against Apple and publishers, and the most common response in the media (Atlantic, New York Times) appears to echo the defendants’ arguments: we had to change how pricing worked in order to compete with Amazon, which has...
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Barcamp Boston 2012
Breakfast, Day 1
Just got back from a great time at Barcamp Boston, held in Microsoft’s spectacular New England Research Division in Cambridge. I’ve been reading for years about conferences organized on the fly by their participants and always wanted to go to one. Now I have, and thanks to the Boston Wordpress Meetup for posting about it. Day 1 was frenetic and jammed full of people...
