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Complementary schismogenesis
I don’t know about anything else I accomplished during spring break, but I learned a new term, complementary schismogenesis, that has its roots in a 1935 article by Gregory Bateson about cultural contact but is probably less used today by anthropologists than communications folks such as linguist and pop-communications writer Deborah Tannen. (See a June […]
Kids, don’t write these sentences at home
I was wondering why I just couldn’t get far in Theodore Porter’s Trust in Numbers (1995) until I came across the following (on p. 15): Lorraine Daston instances Charles Dufay, a French researcher of the 1720s and 1730s, to epitomize a different experimental ideal. So it’s not my lagging attention due to a virus. It’s […]
Lit-review frustrations, part 397
The next time I read someone claiming to derive postmodernism from quantum mechanics and chaos theory, I’m going to scream. This misunderstanding of physics usually ruins what otherwise would be interesting reading.
Emergency! Abstract needed!
The first author of a piece I’m third or fourth author of e-mailed me with an urgent request to shape the abstract before it’s sent off, tonight, to an editor. This is a long MS (88 pages), and he hoped to have the abstract in an hour “or so.” I leaned on the “or so” […]
Errata week: To be read (yet)
By Sherman Dorn on October 25, 2006
I’m declaring the next week or so to be Errata Week, where I declare a bunch of mistakes I’ve made professionally. One of the obligations of academics is to acknowledge these openly. Since publishers don’t print errata sheets frequently, it’s time to use blogs to do that instead. Today, I’ll start with a list of […]
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