Month: January 2022

  • 19JAN22 / accessions

    Not new personal purchases, these ones—who can afford to buy their own copies of Routledge handbooks, after all?—but instead delayed contributor copies, the Social Futures one being about two months late to arrive, the Placemaking one closer to a year, the original dispatches of both having presumably been lost to the fathomless Lovecraftean void which…

  • dispensable and scarce

    Just a quick subtweetish sort of blog post, here, to note that the more times people start an essay or article or academic paper or blog post with a phrase along the lines of “[d]igital platforms and the online services that they provide have become an indispensable and ubiquitous part of modern lifestyles, mediating our…

  • 15JAN22 / accessions

    I know, I know.

  • 14JAN22 / accessions

    Another review assignment, another demonstration that—for all my anxieties about schedule overload—I am my own worst enemy. Still, there are far worse habits to have. Plus, y’know, books!

  • the subject has been usurped

    Lots of chewy stuff in this M L Sauter joint, jumping off from the seeming climb-down of G**gle’s Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto—which, as Sauter notes, was less of a stoppage than a sort of metastasis, with the ideological cancer scattering away from the site of the obvious tumour—in order to talk about surveillance and…