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the view from here: rewired in iphone photos
Margaret Rhee’s photo essay from Seminar in Critical Theory VII: ReWired: Asian+TechnoScience+Area Studies Lucy Suchman remaps Palo Alto Larissa Hjorth on mobile games in korea + china our IT savior...
View ArticleSo, What IS the Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory Anyhow?
I wondered that myself, as I prepared to spend ten days this past August at the University of Hawai´i with forty other scholars at SECT 7, exploring the theme “Rewired: Asian+TechnoScience+Area...
View ArticleThe “Forced Marriage” Between the Humanities and Social Sciences: A...
Nishant Shah, director of the Centre for the Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and co-editor of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?, sat down in March with UCHRI´s David Theo Goldberg for a...
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The View from Japan: Second Semester, Week 1
I’m spending this year in Japan to research and work on my dissertation. At the university I’m visiting we started the second semester of the 2012–2013 academic year this week, since the academic year...
View ArticleThe Fine Line Between Private and Public
On Monday of this week some of the people in the Chinese literature section got together to celebrate the official designation as “Ph.D.” of one of our graduate students. And the best way to celebrate...
View ArticleA Visit to Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. The plan was to meet a professor there through the introduction of Prof. Stefan Tanaka, the director of the Center for the...
View ArticleDismantling the Race Myth…in Japan
I had the pleasure of attending a symposium titled “Dismantling the Race Myth” on Saturday, December 15. (I know, I know…it’s been a while, but I firmly believe in the “new to you” sales pitch.) The...
View ArticleRobyn Rodriguez and Ulla Berg on Transnational Citizenship
What does it mean for people leave a country? What happens to their citizenship in their country of origin? How do states construct their relationships with citizens abroad, and how have these...
View ArticlePresenting Our Work to the World
Now that over a third of February has passed, I must get into writing mode—but before that, I want first to dwell on the many things that have made me consider the significance of sharing our research...
View ArticleUnited States as the Center of Academia
There are a number of things that make me laugh—”Rejected” by Don Hertzfeldt, quotes by Mitch Hedberg (may he rest in peace), Spaceballs by Mel Brooks. Recently I remembered the phrase “Here by...
View ArticleIntellectual Freedom Is
Fortunately for me, I’ve never had any ideas interesting enough to be censored by some powers higher up—but I realize that intellectual freedom (or even academic freedom) goes challenged in various...
View ArticleIn the Land of Emperors
At the beginning of the year, in January, a friend and I went to see a performance of rakugo—a form of traditional Japanese comedy that dates back to the Edo period. The performance we attended spanned...
View ArticleThe International Is the New Global
Last weekend I took a trip to Sendai City in the Tōhoku region of Japan, now inseparable in many people’s minds from the earthquake of March 2011. For the two-night trip I stayed at a small ryokan (a...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Sex
Subway stations in Tokyo offer an endless supply of free reading material—though perhaps few people consider magazines listing part-time jobs and housing information and beauty tips to be “reading...
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