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Queer Speculations: Twitter archive
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on April 23, 2015
Almost a week ago, we had the culmination of my first year at UMD: the DC Queer Studies Symposium, Queer Speculations.
From the opening sessions to the celebratory dancing afterward, it was a really wonderful experience that left me feeling incredibly lucky to be in my current position. Plenary talks by Ramzi Famaz and Shanté Paradigm Smalls were inspiring (and followed by a great discussion of queer of color comics critique), and Juana María Rodríguez's keynote "Feeling Queerly, Knowing Otherwise" was both sexy and unsettling in the best ways.
All of the talks I attended were really impressive, though, and I wished for a couple of clones so that I could have attended all three simultaneous panels. In the talks I did attend, though, I got to offer psychoanalytic help for a troubled software program, contemplate the contradictions and possibilities in queer insurrection and queer optimism, experience the uses of digital storytelling in Native queer communities, delve into decolonizing queer ecologies and black queer futures, and a lot more.
I've archived the tweets on the conference hashtag using Storify and organized them by panel for – you can read the whole day below.
DC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.
Queer Speculations: the first event
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on March 14, 2015
This week, Tavia Nyong'o was on campus for the first installment of Queer Speculations, the LGBT Studies lecture series and conference (April 17!) that I have been working on this semester along with my new colleagues. We have a rather wonderful poster, incidentally, created by Mira Azarm:
I livetweeted as much of the talk as I could, as did some other attendees; Tavia made many associative connections that are both perfectly and not at all captured in 140-character chunks.
Deep Time, Dark Time: Kara Walker's Anarchaeology
It was a joy to introduce Tavia and take part in the colloquium on his work the next day, where we talked about Beasts of the Southern Wild, disciplinarity, British vs American cultural studies, and many other things. And this is just the first of several events this semester!
WisCon Academic Track: call for proposals
This year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love. The convention is in Madison, WI on May 22-25 2015, and academic proposals are due on February 23. They're open to all, and I would encourage anyone doing research related to WisCon's areas of focus to consider attending. It's a very different experience to an academic conference (presentations of scholarship are a tiny, tiny proportion of what is going on) and, for me at least, a reminder of why critical cultural analysis of gender, race, sexuality, and disability matters beyond the academic sphere.
Here are the details (at WisCon's web page):
WisCon Academic Programming
WisCon has a track of academic programming that is open to undergraduate, postgraduate and independent scholars. One of the benefits of this track is that it strengthens the links between the wider feminist science fiction community and students and other scholars working on feminist SF and fantasy and related fields. The track operates very much like a conventional academic conference, with presentations based on extensive research. However, scholarly work on all aspects of feminist science fiction reaches an audience at WisCon that gives a kind of passionate and informed feedback that is rare at academic conferences. We also encourage submissions from people who aren't involved in formal academic work! Over the years, people have presented papers on fantasy, horror, and science fiction literature, media and fandom, examining issues of feminism, gender, sexuality, race, disability, and class amongst many others.
Call for Proposals for WisCon 39: May 21-24, 2015
Deadline: February 23, 2015
WisCon, the world's leading feminist science fiction convention, invites scholars of all descriptions to propose programming for its academic track. We invite proposals from anyone with a scholarly interest in the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability with science fiction – broadly defined – in literature, media, and culture. We would especially welcome scholarship on the work of 2015's guests of honor, Alaya Dawn Johnson and Kim Stanley Robinson, and on the histories and cultures of feminist and social-justice-oriented fan communities. We encourage submissions from scholars in all fields, including interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary areas, and from amateur and independent scholars as well as graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.
At WisCon, papers are presented in groups of two or three during a single 75-minute programming slot. If a group of presenters would like to submit their papers together as a single panel, they should indicate that on their paper submissions. We also encourage the presentation of scholarship in formats other than the traditional paper, and discussion-based panels focused on issues of particular interest to scholars of science fiction and feminism.
An incomplete list of possible subjects:
- Gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability in individual works of science fiction
- Feminist, queer, critical race, and critical disability analysis of science fiction media (film, television, video games, online culture)
- Speculative aspects of feminist and social justice movements
- Science fiction and feminist science and technology studies
- Race, colonialism, and speculative fiction; Afrofuturism and related cultural movements
- Fan cultures and communities
- Feminist pedagogy and speculative fiction in the classroom
An incomplete list of possible formats:
- 15-20 minute paper presentations, with or without visual accompaniment
- Presentation of scholarly creative works, including digital scholarship
- Readings from recently published or forthcoming scholarly books
- Discussion-based panels and roundtables on scholarly research, teaching, or service
- Mentoring sessions on academic professional life: graduate study, the job market, tenure and promotion, publishing and presentation
- Screenings and discussions of short films or videos
Please submit your proposal via this form (you must create a Wiscon login to submit a proposal).
The deadline is midnight CST on February 23, 2015.
You will be asked for a 100-word abstract, which will be printed in the convention's program, and for a more detailed proposal of up to 500 words. If you are proposing something other than a traditional paper, please make sure you describe the format of your proposed program. item. A projector and screen will be available; if you have further technological needs, please let us know in your proposal.
Embodied digital humanities: a few links
When I set up this website, I decided to commit to blogging once a month. That hasn't exactly happened since I embarked on the tenure track… It hasn't been for lack of activity, though. Most recently, I had a generative and wonderful time attending the George Washington Digital Humanities Initiative Symposium on Disrupting DH. Jonathan Hsy wrote a wonderful summary post about it here: #GWDHI and Embodied Digital Communities: Openness, Danger, Care.
I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between digital humanities and embodied communities because I am working on a chapter for a new Companion to Digital Humanities, focused on gender and digital humanities work. I've been using the opportunity to think about DH in the broadest sense, and so far my rough draft goes from Turing's imitation game to women of color's unacknowledged labor in the production of digital devices to cyberfeminism to feminist archives, Wikipedia activism, and #transformDH. As part of my research, I went back to my timeline of tweets from the 2014 ASA Convention, in particular to the panel This Bridge We Call Cyberspace. I made a Storify archive so that I could refer to and reflect on them more easily; for anyone else who might want to do so, the link is at Women of Color Feminist Digital Humanities at #2014ASA
DC Queer Studies Symposium: Queer Speculations (April 17 2015)
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on November 22, 2014
One of the first and most exciting tasks I've undertaken in my new job has been inviting speakers and developing the theme for the annual DC Queer Studies Symposium – an event I watched longingly from afar before I moved here (I defended my dissertation during the 2012 conference celebrating the career of Samuel R. Delany, as I recall). I'm delighted to share this year's theme and call for papers, and I hope that everyone reading this will distribute it widely and consider attending! The official call for papers is online at this link.
What if? And what then? The time and space of gender, sexuality, race, and empire are shaped by acts of speculation: both financial speculation on "futures" markets and the speculative imaginaries that invent, theorize, imagine, and enact different kinds of worlds. Queer theory, politics, and life have always engaged in speculative practice, demanding we attend to forms of kinship, politics, gender, sex, and sociality that exceed the logics of assimilation. In recent years, attention has turned both to the ways in which some queer formations can reinforce the logics of speculative capital, and to the work of speculative cultural production in imagining different, deviant worlds.
We invite proposals for presentations at QUEER SPECULATIONS, the 8th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Maryland. The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations about the various speculative practices queer theory, politics, and life engage, and the kinds of queer speculations about queer bodies, objects, feelings, pasts, futures, utopias, dystopias, and transformations that are emerging. Events will include paper sessions featuring faculty and graduate students, a buffet lunch, and a plenary session featuring Ramzi Fawaz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Shanté Paradigm Smalls (St. John's University), whose work is expanding the field of scholarship on queerness and race in speculative cultural production.
The day will culminate with a keynote address by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Rodriguez is author of Sexual Futures: Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings (NYU Press, 2014) which speculates about the world-making practices of queer of color femme intimacies and embodiments. Her other publications include Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU, 2003) and numerous articles related to her research in sexuality studies, queer activism in a transnational American context, critical race theory, technology and media arts, and Latina/o and Caribbean Studies.
The 2015 symposium marks the coming-together of Women's Studies and LGBT Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, a moment to inspire creative speculation about possible futures for transformative knowledge production within the university.
We welcome proposals for presentations on topics including but not limited to:
- Queer speculative cultural production in media and literature
- Speculative worldmaking in queer communities and social movements
- The relationship of queer politics and culture to speculative capital, risk, and debt
- Queer currents in speculative materialism / the philosophical speculative turn
- Speculative uses of emerging technologies for queer bodies and worlds
- Queer interventions into global, imperial logics of speculation
- Speculative queer ecologies of the human and nonhuman
- Speculation as queer knowledge production in the academy and beyond
Proposals for 15-minute presentations should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper, a 250-word abstract, and a 1-2 page CV. We also welcome submissions for 45-minute panels, but we may reorganize speakers due to the demands of scheduling. If you submit a panel, please include a panel title and a brief explanation of the panel rationale. Please send materials by e-mail attachment (Word or PDF only) by January 16, 2015 to firstname.lastname@example.com. Put "Submission for Queer Speculations" in the subject line of your message. For more information, contact JV Sapinoso at email@example.com. Selected participants will be notified by February 20, 2015.
All symposium events are free and open to the public. More details will be forthcoming at http://www.lgbts.umd.edu
Yes is No: speculative thoughts on the Scottish referendum
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on September 14, 2014
I don't write a lot here about being Scottish. I haven't ever made much of it in my academic work, in my professional life. I haven't lived in Scotland since 2003, and my nationality usually comes up in conversation only when someone is trying to identify my accent. It's ironic, given that I am presently in a situation where I can't leave the US until my pending visa renewal has been processed. But I've never felt more deeply connected to Scotland than I do right now.
As a student at Edinburgh University, I avoided the Scottish Literature classes because I didn't want to focus on my own tiny almost-nation; I wanted a bigger world. I had already spent time in London, where I learned that being markedly Scottish made you a bit funny, not to be taken too seriously until one had moderated one's accent. At Edinburgh, I read about feminism and postcolonial studies and critical theory; I also met the British class elite for the first time, and I realized how little many of them knew or cared about the world I came from. I left, to study abroad in California and then for a postgraduate degree in England and then to the US again, first for my PhD and then to work; I came home as often as I could to visit family, but I haven't looked back all that much.
I'm looking at Scotland now, every day, reading articles and watching video and talking back and forth in person and on social media. But I'm not looking back. I'm looking forward.
Watching London politics over the past few years has broken my heart, as the official discourse seems to move ever closer to the American version of things where the conversations are always about money, never about people, despite powerful and vibrant protest. Growing up in Glasgow during the Thatcher era, I remember being confused about what this thing called democracy I learned about in school was supposed to be, since the government of the country had so manifestly little interest in or respect for the people around me; I remember my mother explaining carefully about Middle England and the politics of scale. Somebody with the same questions today could expect different answers.
My entrancement with the steady upswell of Yes is not terribly much about nationalism. That's a reason I'm glad, in the end, that I don't have a vote in Thursday's referendum. I am Scottish, I will get a Scottish passport if such things come to exist, but I don't live there; it's a decision for the people who do, regardless of where they come from. And the people I am close to who live there have, many of them, been shifting steadily from a wary "don't know" to a chorus of Yeses. Or, as we say in my native dialect, Aye.
"We're no putting up a border, we're just putting our house in order": what Yes means for many of those voting is not so much separatist nationalist fervor (as it seems often to be described by those south of the border), as it is a resounding, passionate, affirmative NO. Campaigners for union focus on the economic gain to be found from the wealth of the south of England; they sentimentalize about the histories of power and privilege that tie the United Kingdom together. And a Yes to Scottish independence says no to all that. It says "I would prefer not to."
With the affirmative grassroots movements that are gathering, that seem to me to be much more important than the Scottish National Party, a vote for independence has the potential to be to be a vote of no confidence for the capitalist nation-state as it stands. It's a vote against "the economy" as the determinant of everything. It's a vote, maybe, against the lingering sickening powerful feeling that the British Empire is something that those who benefited from it (think of ships built in Glasgow for the triangle trade; think of Elvis Costello and Robert Wyatt's powerful song Shipbuilding) should consider a source of pride, rather than a source of shame.
In Butterfly Rebellion, which is a great account of the structure of feeling that Scottish independence has become, Robin McAlpine writes:
In a room behind a locked door, behind a policeman, behind a gate, behind another policeman, a group of millionaires get together. One, an old Etonian, nominally runs the country. The others, the CEOs of big corporations, actually run the country. They decide on a strategy: terror. We. Will. Take. Your. THINGS. From. You. It's a fair trade, of sorts – give up your chance of self-determination and in return we will give you the cheap things that you love. This is Britain.
Some of the Yes campaign responds by offering reminders that Scotland would still be a rich country. But I'm more convinced by the Scottish actor and comedian Elaine C. Smith:
If you live in an affluent area, have a good job, drive a couple of nice cars, a good pension, a holiday home in Majorca and your kids are at private school, then why would you want change? I've enjoyed many of those advantages in my own life.
But surely life has to be about more than your own personal comfort? Isn't your life made worse when you know that half a mile away from your home there are people living in abject poverty through no fault of their own, with no hope, no future, no dreams of a better life.
The left "no" side has offered up the argument that division makes for a smaller chance of equality, but that still comes close to the idea that what Scotland really needs is the trickle-down wealth from London – which would surely have worked rather better than it has, if it were going to.
The Yes vote is a No to predictability chosen out of fear. It's a vote for admitting that things won't necessarily get better right away, but that it's worth trying to see if they can get different. When I think about what it might mean for the universities of Scotland, my first instinct is fear: with no fees and reduced access to UK funding, how will research get the funding it needs? And yet when I pause and think, it's all possibility. Universities as they are don't work terribly well as places to promote learning; the world has moved faster than they have, with their paywalled depositories and closed books. What would an alternative university be like? What kinds of knowledge might get shaped there, with an opportunity to start from scratch? This could be a time to collaborate on finding out.
Let me finish with a couple of images from the Scotland I grew up in. I come from Springburn, which Wikipedia will tell you has some of the the highest unemployment and poverty rates in Scotland, and some of the worst health. We lived in a council flat across the road from a beautiful park, where I walked almost daily past the imposing ruins of Victorian greenhouses that once housed winter gardens:
The garden picture looks like how Scotland and Scottishness feel to me today. Something old, slipping into disrepair, no longer functioning but lumbering on; it's not so much that I think that is Britain as it feels like the dominant way we have of doing and thinking politics. And twining around and over and through, persisting even in darkest winter, a thousand shoots of nascent possibility, already green and growing, uncontainable. What if we let them bloom?
On social media, digital politics, and personal change
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on August 28, 2014
As I gear up for my first semester at the University of Maryland, I'm thinking a lot about academic and social positionings, offline and on. More particularly, about my own online positioning and how it has changed over the past four years as I've made the transition from graduate student life to completing my dissertation and going on the market, to being an assistant professor in a teaching-focused university teaching composition, literature, and doctoral-level theory classes, to my brand-new status as a tenure-track professor doing interdisciplinary work at a large public research university. The change in my online persona has been marked and undeniable. I have become much, much quieter.
My presence on Twitter used to be constant and vocal: livetweeting every conference I attended in queer studies, critical race studies, digital media; following and retweeting emerging news and political events (I most vividly remember the 2011 London riots); arguing; celebrating the benefits of the platform as I moved through the world in community with my Twitter friends, advocating its use both as a space for succinct, low-stress writing and as a platform for public intellectual discourse. I still livetweet most of the conferences I attend, but I don't read like I used to, and I haven't engaged in Twitter debate for a long time. Everything I've ever said about the importance of Twitter is truer than it ever was now that the platform has become so central to so many kinds of public life – but some recent discussions about #Ferguson made me realize that I don't access the stream the way I used to. I think that Zeynep Tufekci (to pick one post from the dozens on the subject in my web history) is absolutely right in calling attention to the un-algorithmed Twitter feed as vital to the possibility of media justice; nevertheless, I followed and shared Ferguson news from inside my Facebook filter bubble. That was an interesting experience in itself; I learned that my activity there is such that I was given wall-to-wall Ferguson coverage and very few ALS Ice Bucket Challenges (though now the Challenge has crossed the Atlantic I'm seeing more of them). My Twitter feed, when I accessed it, had a much less unified perspective.
For those of you who follow digital humanities debate on Twitter, you may recognize the influence of Noel Jackson's recent posts (storified by Adeline Koh) in this moment of contemplation. The abhorrent firing of Steven Salaita from the position he had accepted but not begun at the University of Illinois for his vocal, emotive public tweets against the genocidal war in Gaza is another thread that has been leading me to think about scholarly, political, and personal positionings. A third is the new publication of a second installment of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class in Academia recently published in the Seattle Journal of Social Justice, which I have been working my way through
Jackson calls attention to the relative silence of online networks of academics in the realm of digital humanities when it comes to the protests in Ferguson. He argues that if the humanities are to be public at all, then humanists must engage with what is happening on the ground. I agree with this premise, though critical caveats by Elizabeth Losh (Respect, Niceness, and Generosity) and Ernesto Priego (On the Public Humanities and the Reign of Opinion) on the ways that public online personae and political investment are rarely transparent reflections of one another ring very true. My own time away from Twitter has brought me to a deep appreciation of the temporality of the blog post.
I have seen some exchanges on Twitter in Jackson's wake that illuminated for me why some tend to remain silent: when fear of appropriating a discourse not one's own leads a white scholar not officially trained in race studies to hold back from expressions of solidarity with Black Americans, for example. People of color and those marked as other speak, knowing that their silence will not protect them (this article by Ramona Fernandez, a long and painful read, tells a story of what it can be like to endure that silence); silence does protect those who pass more seamlessly into the mainstream, where the risk is rather that we will appear to be giving assent to the violence of the status quo, and also that this appearance will become reality (read Sara Ahmed on the different experiences of bodies in systems that are or are not shaped around their movements and needs).
So, then, I'm reflecting on my own shifts in outspokenness and privilege. Switching the locus of my online activity from Twitter to Facebook has been a retreat into such a protective silence for me, in many ways. It has not only been that; it has most immediately been a question of demands on my time as I shifted from graduate school (in which I had the immense privilege of being well funded and generously mentored by radical scholars) to a full-time position with a high teaching load. It has been a recognition of the institutional impossibility of maintaining the kind of openness I had as a student, once I realized that the tenure-track position I had been incredibly lucky and (again) incredibly privileged to maintain was not going to be a good long term home; going on the market without the support of a cohort of equally anxious peers was a lonely thing, and Facebook provided a higher ratio of comforting dog, cat, and baby pictures to distract me. It has also been a sign of the attention I've been paying to happier events in my personal life, which I wanted to share with those I am more than with a scholarly audience. I do want to defend Facebook a little against the many who steer clear of its voracious surveillance and advertising; I'm far from the first to find that it's become the digital space of the less digitally savvy, which for me includes many faraway friends and family. My Twitter feed, for all it has 1000+ followers, feels as if it reaches mainly the like minded, whereas on Facebook I'm constantly confronted by those awkward interactions between relatives, friends, and acquaintances (these include a fair number of internet-only friends and acquaintances with whom I've been interacting for more than ten years) whose life experiences are radically different than my own.
Anyway. I'm writing this post now, I think, as a reminder of the ways in which my new academic position charts a new relationship to scholarly visibility and privilege. I am no longer, praise everything, on the market; I am in a position where the things I want to do and the things I will be professionally rewarded for line up as well as I could hope for them to do. I may not have tenure yet, but I have access and a voice that have the potential to be powerful. And I need to use it mindfully; I need to use it well.
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on July 12, 2014
My summer has thus far been spent moving, with little time for web updates. But I have had two collaborative pieces come out in the past few months, and not yet got around to linking them here.
The first was a real first for me: co-writing with my romantic and domestic partner. We reviewed Volume 7 of Aqueduct Press's WisCon Chronicles series, Shattering Ableist Narratives, for Disability Studies Quarterly. I edited Volume 6 in the series and WisCon is, as I've described here before, a home for me and a place where I find both community and significance for my work beyond my academic sphere. Disability studies is something that I have only recently been beginning to delve into, in part because of the focus on widening access and challenging ableism that I have seen over the years at WisCon. I've also been learning about it because it is the field within which my partner, Kathryn Wagner, is doing research in Clinical Psychology, so we thought that this review would be a fun way to explore the intersection of our scholarly work after she came with me to WisCon and experienced the convention first hand. It proved to be just that, and we hope to do more writing together in the future. For those who enjoy the review and the volume and want more WisCon, Volume Eight: Regenerating WisCon has just come out, edited by Rebecca Holden.
The second piece was part of a roundtable published by the online International Journal of Communication. I was invited by Henry Jenkins and Nick Couldry to join an illustrious line-up of media and communication scholars exploring "the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics," in groupings organized around themes of creativity, labor, politics, knowledge and education, and platforms. I was part of the "politics" grouping, in the illustrious company of Danielle Allen, Nico Carpentier, Moya Bailey, Natalie Fenton, Henry Jenkins, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Mirko Tobias Schaefer, and Ramesh Srinivasan. I learned a lot from our dialogues about the uneven dynamics of participation as democratic political theory, utopia/dystopia, revolutionary and/or reactionary force; all of the roundtable's segments are accessible and thought-provoking reads, and I recommend them highly.
New worlds
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on May 12, 2014
I am overdue on a few announcements here; let me start with the biggest one.
This fall, I will be moving to the Washington, DC area to start a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at University of Maryland College Park. I will be joining the Program in LGBT Studies as it becomes a part of Women's Studies, and I'm looking forward to being a part of this changing moment for gender and sexuality studies at Maryland. I will also be teaching in the undergraduate honors college as part of the Design | Culture & Creativity program, a first- and second-year interdisciplinary living-learning program focused on digital culture and featuring the spec-fictional tagline of a curriculum for "independent thinkers and problem solvers who imagine that which does not yet exist."
As will hopefully be clear from all that, this position could not be more of a dream job; it feels tailor-made for my idiosyncratic collection of interests, and it will give me the scope to explore them in ways I am only beginning to imagine. And College Park is, of course, the home of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, as well as so many scholars – in my new department and elsewhere – whose work I have been reading and engaging for years. I am honored and overjoyed beyond words to have this opportunity.
A Foretaste of the Feminist Future, circa 1889
Posted by Alexis Lothian in Uncategorized on February 15, 2014
I'm excited to announce that the 1889 feminist utopia to which I wrote the introduction, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, is now in print – with a beautiful cover from Aqueduct Press's Heirloom Books imprint.
It's a strange book; typical of the burgeoning utopian fictions of its time, yet with some unusual interventions to make regarding technology, medicine, writing, and gender. Here's the first paragraph of my introduction:
When Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett sat down in the late 1880s to imagine a world 500 years hence, she can little have imagined that her words would be pored over in another century, on another continent, in a community gathered around the kinds of imaginative engagement with gender that she was pioneering. L. Timmel Duchamp has described feminist science fiction as a "great conversation"; Corbett's speculations about New Amazonia are part of that conversation's prehistory, a fictional contribution to political debates with which the writer was intensively engaged. The book you are holding is a piece of utopian fiction, but it is just as much a feminist rant––entertaining, educational, and more than a little over the top. Hilarious at some moments, it is shocking and dispiriting in others. It forces us to remember how easily feminist hope can coexist with racism, class hierarchy, imperalism, and the ableism that justified eugenic reproductive policy. Utopias and rants are both genres that make presumptions and prejudices acutely visible.
You can buy the book directly from Aqueduct, in print or ebook (which I recommend, since they are a small publishing house doing amazing work to support innovative and radical feminist science fiction), or from Amazon.com.


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Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005)
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No current Talk conversations about this book.
An economist and a journalist team up to tackle some rather odd ball questions:
- Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool?
- What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
- Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
- How much do parents really matter?
- How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner label their research into the hidden side of everything "Freakonomics", a study of incentives and how people get what they want. Whether they're looking at the Klu Klux Klan or lives of crack dealers, the writers always uncover a new way to look at the story.
Since I started listening to the Freakonomics podcast, I've seen the occasional criticism of the team from various economists who say their methodology is flawed or the work is more in line with sociology. This is probably true. I'm mostly listening to these guys because I want a little bit of entertainment and I want to learn something new. They usually provide enough facts that even if I don't agree with their conclusions I know enough to go off and do my own research.
There are some really interesting stories in this book. I think the chapter I found the most intriguing was one in which they describe what a child's name reveals about the parents. As we all know, names go in and out of vogue. Certain names become trendy with certain socioeconomic groups. I've heard that individuals with an "ethnic" name often have a harder time getting job interviews, a theory that Freakonomics supports. What I found fascinating is that names move down the economic ladder; a name popular with upper middle class families one year starts popping up as a top name for lower middle class children a few years later. That's something I've never really considered before.
When the Freakonomics team gets something wrong, they try to own up to it. The version of this book that I listened to (since I'm used to the podcast I opted for an audiobook) is the 'Revised and Expanded Edition', which corrects some misinformation regarding a story about information control and the Klu Klux Klan. The first edition of the book had some statements that later proved to be exaggerations, so the authors went back and corrected the affected chapters. They also removed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter that were taken from an article Dubner wrote about Levitt. It was very pretentious and pompous, and once the authors realized the negative effect the quotes had on readers, they were gone.
So is this "proper" economics? No. I imagine that my economics professors in college would have had fits about the methodology. But it sure is some darn good storytellin'.
It is impossible to finish this book without becoming annoying at parties. There's a real joy in deflating old tropes and assumptions and this does so. A good read and education.
Very interesting analysis of how some data tells us different answers than we expect to hear. We often see what we look for, this book asks us to look at things from a different perspective.
Many of Levitt's claims are fantastical, and given the amount of evidence in stark contrast to at least one of Levitt's favorite "can you believe it" topics (abortion and crime) it's hard to believe any of what he says. As others have said, little of what he talks about has anything to do with economics, so from my perspectives he's an economist trying to use his knowledge to inform topics he knows little to nothing about. I'm neither an economist nor a sociologist, but even I am aware of some of the arguments that he very blatantly ignores (for instance, his prison arguments very clearly ignore the fact that crimes that would have been a slap on the wrist or played off as "kids will be kids" years ago now carry stiff prison sentences because the prison-system has been privatized and the government has contracts with these prisons ensuring at least a minimum population.
Levitt's worst sin though is his constant inserting of news clippings tauting his perfection and insight.
This is a very fascinating book, which I highly recommend to everyone. Essentially, the authors use economic principles and ideas to analyze several very interesting questions, such as why drug dealers live with their mothers. Trust me when I say that you never knew just how large of a role economics plays in our everyday world. I came away from the book looking at everything in a whole new way, and with a whole new level of appreciation for economics as a field of study. The anecdotes are amusing, the questions explored are relevant and interesting in ways you have never realized, and the entirety is tied together nicely and written in a very approachable fashion. The one downside, if you can call it that, is that not a lot of the data and information used in the analyses was provided or explained, with the authors instead largely falling back on saying what they found, with the reader basically taking their word for it. While this makes the book far more approachable and interesting for an everyday reader, it means that the education in actual economics that is provided is severely limited in scope, and their conclusions cannot be investigated further (based on what is provided in the book alone) if someone wishes to do so. They basically manage to make economics readily approachable for the everyday reader, while also allowing for very little true additional understanding of the field of study itself. This is only a minor weakness overall, as most would not be reading it for those purposes, but it did jump out at me a bit.
Economists can seem a little arrogant at times. They have a set of techniques and habits of thought that they regard as more ''rigorous'' than those of other social scientists. When they are successful -- one thinks of Amartya Sen's important work on the causes of famines, or Gary Becker's theory of marriage and rational behavior -- the result gets called economics. It might appear presumptuous of Steven Levitt to see himself as an all-purpose intellectual detective, fit to take on whatever puzzle of human behavior grabs his fancy. But on the evidence of ''Freakonomics,'' the presumption is earned.
The book, unfortunately titled Freakonomics, is broken into six chapters, each posing a different social question. Levitt and Dubner answer them using empirical research and statistical analysis. And unlike academics who usually address these matters, they don't clutter the prose with a lot of caveats. They just show you the goods.
Freakonomics is about unconventional wisdom, using the raw data of economics in imaginative ways to ask clever and diverting questions. Levitt even redefines his definition. If, as he says, economics is essentially about incentives and how people realise them, then economics is a prospecting tool, not a laboratory microscope.
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I am hoping you all can help me. I had a long conversation about Christmas with a friend of mine yesterday. We are both in the same boat as far as buying anything for our kids. We both want to keep the holiday simple, we want to not spend a ton of money, we are clueless about what our children would even like that they would not destroy or get bored with in 10 minutes. But we would like to get them something they like. I am guessing we are not the only ones. But maybe some of you have some suggestions.
I have a 5 yr old DS who loves trucks and princesses. He was in his glory at DIsney meeting princesses and fell in love with "the pink one". He has too many trucks. We have lego he does not touch, we have playmobil knights he will not touch, he has Thomas trains he will pull out rarely. I gave him an old barbie of mine in a princess dress and he likes her but other then drag her around there is no play value for him and when I asked about other dolls he had no interest. He has a Leapster he plays with but only the Cars game. He is delayed with possible learning disabilities. We are getting as creative as we can to help teach him numbers and letters. He is in kindergarten.
I have an 8 yr old DS, almost 9, in 3rd grade. He wants "anything with a screen" on it. Whines because all his friends have something with a screen and he does not. Sigh. I have a nintendo DS he can use when he wants and he never asks unless we are on a long car ride. We also have a Wii. He has a bunch of Star Wars legos but he seems to be getting bored with legos lately. He got an ipod nano last year and has not used it in months. He started reading like crazy and the ipod gets in his way. He is presently into those Beyblade top things. He also wants Nerf guns. I am sorely tempted with the nerf guns because I seem to spend my life making the boys put down sticks and pipes and any other long handled things they can find in the yard to battle each other. Or they fill up water guns and I usually get hit. He also asked for a fish but my DH said no since he forgets about taking care of his chickens.
My husband has been pouring over all the magazines that come in trying to find ideas and no luck so far. Either the item would have limited use or would have to involve an adult every time. So far they both got an LLBean duffle bag for travel but I doubt those will go over well on their own LOL
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!
I got my 5 yr old a guitar-nothing fancy, just a 30$ little guitar that he can strum on. He also is getting a few movies(toy story 3), some action figures, a castle, new shoes. And then I am stockpiling him in consumables-markers, crayons, coloring books, etc. I really wanted to get him an indoor tent but we just don't have the room for it.
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What about building toys? Zoobs, Lincoln Logs and blocks are/were big hits in my house.
Also, have you thought about getting some Playmobil for your DS 5 that's geared more towards family life? My DSS 9 and DSD 11 still play with the Playmobil take-along house and all the things that go with it. They also have the Playmobil RV that they love.
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The nerf guns sound good, nerf swords too. For the 5 y.o. maybe figures and a setting for them, like some form of dollhouse or stable and the people or animals to go in there. I'd making gnomes and a home for them that looks like a tree stump. Books of course. A new game for the Wii, new beyblade thingy. They into dress-up stuff like animals, heroes, pirates, knights, professions? Could do something along those lines. Maybe some family card or board game they could do and you'd actually enjoy playing with them? I'm getting Apples to Apples Kids for my family. Oh I got one of those pop up toy tunnels and gave it to my church it's a huge hit for ages 1-10. Smaller and cheaper than a tent and gets put away quickly.
I was going to suggest Beyblades as a possibility, but it seems like your 8 yo is already into them.
Ok some random ideas..
walkie talkies
building kits (you know - model planes/cars, robots, etc)
craft stuff
new bike/scooter/skates/roller blades
an experience: see a hockey game/play/musical, go on a trip or day trip, season pass to science museum/other cool place, lessons (music/circus/whatever) along with gift of whatever equipment might be needed.
keyboard... one that has a big variety of instrument sounds might be exciting.
board games
zipline (if you have room for it)
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I have a kid who asks for toys, but doesn't really play with them. I think some of the best gifts we've gotten for her have been board games and card games- ones we can play as a family are great. For your younger child they also can foster those skills children need- like color matching etc.
We also have children that don't really play with their toys. We are finally getting smart about that and sticking to active 'toys' like scooters, bikes, outdoor hockey set, basketball hoops etc.
As well as things they see us using that they want to be using too, like a camera. Kids style of course.
We are not getting our kids a single 'toy' this year. I'm tired of getting stuff that doesn't get used. It's a waste in many ways.
I might also recommend a baking set-all things in your 5 year old's size. And then really let him make and mix stuff with you.
And we also tend to do some educational stuff.
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Thank you all, you are so helpful! This has certainly given us a few more ideas :)
My kids are getting sleeping bags as part of christmas this year. The boys (5.5) are also really into star wars action figures.
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For fat brain, magic cabin and hearthsong, there are usually coupon codes available.
Good luck!
We also have children that don't really play with their toys. We are finally getting smart about that and sticking to active 'toys' like scooters, bikes, outdoor hockey set, basketball hoops etc.
As well as things they see us using that they want to be using too, like a camera. Kids style of course.
We are not getting our kids a single 'toy' this year. I'm tired of getting stuff that doesn't get used. It's a waste in many ways.
This is kind of where we are at. For ds's bday last month we got him a hamster. For Christmas he may be getting drums, but I still want to buy a couple toys.
You said your oldest like to read and wants something with a screen...what about an ebook reader, like a nook or a kindle? That's what my almost 8 year old wants most for x-mas this year. I have a nook and he loves reading on it.
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The designated Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation Act (Susca) court on Wednesday acquitted an 18-year-old who was arrested in 2012 for allegedly making a hoax call on the toll-free number of the Jet Airways.
The accused, Vikas Yadav, had threatened the airline that he would hijack their plane.
Yadav, a school dropout, had made several calls to the airline toll-free helpline number between September and October, 2012.
According to the prosecution's case, the accused had threatened to hijack a plane if they fail to release Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and other arrested terror accused.
After a few days of investigation, the police arrested the accused from Vapi in Gujarat on January 20, 2013.
The first few calls were believed to be made from Vapi and one from Mumbai though SIM cards acquired on false documents. According to the police, Yadav also used his father Gorelal Yadav's SIM card for a call. Gorelal Yadav was also arrested in the case, but later let off.
When dna spoke to defence advocate Yousuf Tamboli, he said, "My arguments were based on the fact that the Saki Naka police, who had investigated the case, had no power to do so. According to the Susca law, if any person is arrested in such a case, then it is the central agency who would investigate the case."


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Actually you are wrong in your thinking. Induction stoves heat only steel pots and pans on top of the stove, you can put copper on them and nothing will happen, just as you can put your hand on top of them and you will feel no heat.
Your supposition still doesn't include the facts to my questions, but I'm expecting someone will sooner or latter have the facts. Too bad I got rid of my table router that looks exactly like that one, or I would run the tests myself.


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A former Nueces County district court manager is under criminal investigation by the FBI and Corpus Christi Police Department.
The Corpus Christi Violent Crimes Task Force used a state warrant on Tuesday to search the 48-year-old woman's home in the 2900 block of Japonica Drive as part of the ongoing case, according to a statement released by the FBI's Houston division.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday and attempts to reach the former district court manager for comment were unsuccessful.
The investigation "is specific to (her) and does not involve any other individuals at the Nueces County Courthouse," the statement said.
Special Agent Patricia Villafranca confirmed the case was not related to the woman's job but would not release more details.
The task force, which includes FBI agents and the Corpus Christi Police Department, mostly handles drug and gang-related cases, Villafranca added.
She had worked as the 94th District court manager since 2005. After learning of the investigation from authorities Tuesday afternoon, Judge Bobby Galvan fired her early Wednesday morning.
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The Songkhla lake (Thai: ทะเลสาบสงขลา, rtgs: Thale Sap Songkhla, IPA: [tʰa.leː sàːp sǒŋ.kʰlǎː]) is the largest natural lake in Thailand, located on the Malay peninsula in the southern part of the country. Covering an area of 1,040 km² it borders the provinces of Songkhla and Phatthalung. Despite being called a lake, this water surface is actually a lagoon complex geologically.
The lake is divided into three distinct parts. The southern part opens by a 380 m wide strait to the Gulf of Thailand at the city of Songkhla, and contains brackish water of about half the salinity of the ocean. Further north after a bottleneck of only 6 km width is the Thale Luang (782.80 km²), and finally at the northern end in between a mangrove swamp the 28 km² small Thale Noi in Phatthalung Province. The most striking feature is the long 75 km long spit which separates the lake from the sea. Unlike most spits, it is probably formed when originally existing islands became interconnected by the silting from the lake precursor.
Ramsar Wetlands[edit]
The Phru Khuan Khi Sian wetlands near the Thale Noi Lake are protected as a Ramsar wetland since 1998. It is a part of the larger Thale Noi Non-Hunting Area, created in 1975.[1]
Kuan Ki Sian of the Thale Noi Non-Hunting Area is located at 07º50'N 100º08'E. in a Non-hunting Area, Phatthalung. Located just north of the very large Thale Luang (Lake Songkhla Complex) in the south of the country, it is one of the few surviving intact freshwater wetland ecosystems in Thailand. Among the specific wetland types found here are lake, marsh, Melaleuca (also termed "paperbark") swamp forest, paddy fields, and swamp grasslands.
"Kuans" are islands free of water for most of the year located in the Melaleuca swamp forest. Kuan Ki Sian is a knoll at 0–2 meters above mean sea level within the Thale Noi area. The Thale Noi area is home to more than 5,000 families, almost all of which rely on some resource extraction or other land use within the area. Activities include fishing, cattle grazing, cultivation, mat-making and tourism. The site is visited by more than 200,000 foreign and local visitors annually.
Irrawaddy Dolphin[edit]
A small population of Irrawaddy Dolphins is found in Thale Luang, near the Si-Ha Islands of Phatthalung, however threatened to extinction by the overfishing and pollution of the lake. The IUCN Red List shows several populations, including those in the Mahakam River and Malampaya Sound, as critically endangered.[2]
- ^ Wetlands in Thale Noi Wildlife Non-Hunting Area (with a fine map and picture)
- ^ Cetacean Specialist Group (1996). Orcaella brevirostris. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 March 2007.


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A senior weather researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, Kate had logged hundreds of hours of flight time as one of NOAA's famed Hurricane Hunters. The pilots she flew with all possessed a steady hand on the controls, nerves of steel and an unshakable belief in their ability to look death in the eye and stare it down. So when she gauged the speed of the pickup hurtling straight toward her, she had no doubt who was at its wheel.
USAF Captain Dave Scott—a seasoned test pilot with hundreds of hours in both rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. Scott had been yanked off an assignment with Special Operations to become the newest addition to the supersecret test cadre tucked away in this remote corner of southeastern New Mexico.
He was supposed to have arrived last night but had phoned Captain Westfall from somewhere along the road and indicated he'd check in first thing this morning. No explanations for the delay, or none the navy captain in charge of the supersecret Pegasus project had relayed to his crew, anyway.
That alone was enough to put a dent in Kate's characteristically sunny good nature. She and the rest of the small, handpicked cadre had been here for weeks now. They'd been working almost around the clock to conduct final operational testing on the new all-weather, all-terrain attack-assault vehicle code-named Pegasus. The urgency of their mission had been burned into their brains from day one. That Captain Scott would delay his arrival—even by as little as eight hours of admittedly dead time—didn't particularly sit well with Kate.
Then there was the fact that the air force had pegged Scott to replace Lieutenant Colonel Bill Thompson, the original air force representative to the project. Everyone on the team had liked and respected the easygoing and highly experienced test pilot. Unfortunately, Bill had suffered a heart attack after being infected by the vicious virus that attacked him and a number of other members of the test cadre some days ago.
Now Bill was off the Pegasus project and probably off flying status for the rest of his life. His abrupt departure had ripped a gaping hole in the tight, close team of officers and civilians plucked from all branches of the military to work on the project. Dave Scott would have to scramble to catch up with the rest of the test cadre and prove himself worthy to fill Bill Thompson's boots.
"Sure hope you're up to it, fella."
With that fervent wish, Kate lengthened her stride. She'd just as soon not come face-to-face with her new associate out here in the desert. Her hair was a tangled mess and her turquoise spandex running suit sported damp patches of sweat. With luck and a little more oomph to her pace, she could veer off onto the dirt track that ringed the perimeter of the site before Scott hit the first checkpoint.
She should have known she couldn't outrun a sky jock. The speeding pickup skidded to a stop at the checkpoint while Kate was still some distance from the perimeter trail.
The dazzling light shooting through the peaks of the Guadalupe Mountains off to the east illuminated the vehicle. The truck was battered. Dust streaked. An indeterminate color between blue and gray. She couldn't see the driver, though. He was still too far away and the bright rays glinting off the windshield formed an impenetrable shield.
She'd get a glimpse of him soon enough, Kate guessed wryly. From the bits and pieces of background information she'd gathered about Captain Dave Scott, she knew he wasn't the type to cruise by a female in a tight jogging suit. Or one in support hose and black oxfords, for that matter. Rumor had it Scott was the love-'em-and-leave-'em type, with a string of satisfied lovers stretching from coast to coast.
Kate knew the breed.
All too well.
So she wasn't surprised when the pickup cleared the checkpoint, roared into gear and kicked up dust for another quarter mile or so. Scant yards from Kate, it fishtailed to a halt once more.
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I gave this book 3 stars since I really enjoyed the second story of this two book set. The first book Full Throttle was not a bad story but it seemed that so much word space was taken up with a description of the experimental aircraft that I was looking for what happen with Peagus in the future trials more than what happen to the two main characters.
Wrong Bride, Right Groom was a fun little romance. Full of all those comic mishaps that make for a good read for an afternoon.
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Stay: Sofitel Vienna StephansomSkip the chandeliers-and-red-velvet opulence of the typical first district hotel. If you come to the stark Sofitel, you'll be treated to something they can't offer—a view over the city center. Opened in 2010 on the edge of the second district, this hotel doesn't have the same building restrictions, so it towers over nearby properties. It's the most scenic on the top-floor restaurant Le Loft, where breakfast is served up along with the entire city skyline through a sweeping bank of windows. A minimalist color palate of gray, white, and black, is a wink to the towering St. Stephen's Cathedral to the south. At night, a ceiling art installation by Pipilotti Rist (pictured, above) acts as a vivid, colorful beacon across the Danube Canal. Thankfully, the rooms are every bit as sensational as the public spaces. They benefit from the same outstanding views, plus deep tubs and beds of extreme fluffiness. See full Sofitel Vienna Stephansom review.
Eat: Ein Wiener SalonThe portrait in the dining room says it all: looming over an entire wall is a reproduction of Empress Maria Theresa. But note, there's something off—her eyes have been replaced with a photograph of the owner's eyes. It's both grand and cheeky, which suits the Ein Wiener Salon. The mood here is more supper club than restaurant, and actually, that's how the Salon began. In the intimate 12-table dining room, you'll have a direct sightline to the open kitchen and the chef's slumbering dogs in back, but the service and Louis XV chairs radiate elegance. The chef applies his Italian background to Austria's bounty, and the result elevates traditional dishes with bright flavors. Seasonal dishes vary, but they could include morel and asparagus soup or Wooly pig filet with beechnut oil. Naturally, all are paired with crisp Austrian wine. Tyrolean cheese makes a fine ending to the meal. See full Ein Wiener Salon review. Other Modern Vienna Restaurants:
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Hi Shadow14US, you could post this question on the European forum with a helpful title like "Traveling with Celiac Disease in Europe?" - you might get more feedback there.
My wife and I are considering a trip to Europe, but I have some concerns about the food and her ability to enjoy everything. She has what is know as "Celiac Disease" that does not allow her to be able to eat ANYTHING that has "Wheat" as an ingredient in it.
Can anyone tell me if they have encountered this problem while they travel Europe in the past. We are getting up in age and she has never been to Europe, while I on the other hand worked there for a number of years before we met, but never knew of this disease.
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