Just this semester, I am on track to finish:
- a conference presentation and subsequent paper on House and models of authority figures in the postmodern media
- a paper on constructions of race and ethnicity in pro football broadcasts (focusing on the return of the NFL to New Orleans)
- a book review of a book on New Orleans tourism
- a narrative of my year of adjunt hell
This is on top of my summer plans to:
- revise and submit my horror fiction chapter of my diss
- revise and start shopping around my book proposal
- rewrite my diss theory chapter to center on cyberpunk, network theory, and identity
- teach myself Gramsci
In the midst of all this, I just discovered, while doing research for one of my many papers, the common theme of my current work. I even have a title for book two: Whither Authority? Control, Networked Intelligence, and Authority in the Postmodern Media.
I hope I stop thinking of ideas before I explode.
2 comments:
Network theory and cyberpunk you say? Network theory as in "network society," like Castells? Or what?
Sounds interesting, we should chat about it.
I have mentioned my obsession with Gibson before right? And that I own everything he wrote and the documentary of him talking about nothing in the back of a car?And that Gibson once posted on his blog that "Reagan's smile" was an essential ingredient that helped him imagine his dystopian future?
E-mail me sometime the week after next, and we can talk, please.
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