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As much as I complain about Twitter (and as I finally, after years, get a better hang of the site I do it less), it brings me some wonderful stuff, particularly along academic and activist lines. The following came across my feed a week or so ago about teaching a course in STS.
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A couple months ago I tweeted about a dissertation epiphany that I’d had after a rare full night’s sleep.
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So the New York Times has published a long form article by Ava Kofman on Bruno Latour and his forthcoming book on climate change science, and, well, all of Latour’s range of stuff.
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A mailing list for a research network which I’m a member of recently passed around Iris Marion Young’s “The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference,” and I tagged it to read (kind of a thing for me, as one of my major questions revolves around what exactly community is). Having managed one blog post for the first time in years, I thought I might jump in and do another one, this time a good bit more theoretical and academic.
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Calum Macleod just wrote a fascinating blog post about the phenomenon of tourists building rock cairns at the ‘Fairy Glen’ in northern Skye, and the actions of annoyed residents who went and disassembled them. I don’t have a huge amount to add to his thoughts – particularly as I try to get back into the swing of this blogging thing – but as Dr. Macleod highlights, the connections to the notion of ownership as currently contested in rural Scotland seem particularly relevant.