I first came across Rare Book School on a humanites research listserv. I clicked through the links, perused the website, and filed the url away in my "So Many Good Opportunities, So Little Time" catalog. Unfortuantely for me, that management system has only grown larger and larger. But that is what makes Off-Script so wonderful. … Continue reading Learn about Rare Book School and more…
Have you heard about Fieldnotes...?It's not about fidelity to the field's history; it's about telling and tilling it in a critical way. These scholars help us to do that in a promising way.
And somewhere in-between I had the realization that, contrary to popular belief, the internet isn't just about generating original content that demonstrates influence or raises one's clout. The web need not be worldwide; and our time in it, world dominating. I'm here for the small internet, where a niche of people find what they're looking for--whether they were looking for it or not. And for me this has involved what Kelly J. Baker has called "the cold take," and C. Travis Webb describes as "intellectual intimacy."
The other night, I got to thinking about how Domino's Pizza reinvented itself in the last decade. Rather than ordering a late night pie, I wrote a blog post about it over at The University of Alabama's Study Religion blog. A scholar of religion might redescribe the company’s reception to negative feedback as a form … Continue reading A Slice of Social Theory
Anyway, on the occasion of resolutions, I have been thinking about how you can't shortcut the growth process. Shortcuts lead to short circuits, and those are not a good look.
