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Paroles.net – Michel Fugain – Le chevalier des causes perdues ♫:
Il nous a expliqué
Qu’il suffit d’un petit grain de sable
Pour dérégler la machine implacable
Et moi je rêvais d’être ce grain de sable
Qui enfanterait un monde formidable…
Moi aussi, j’en rêve!
C’est ça, l’effet du papillon social…
Reçu d’un ami (brasseur et géographe):
À mesure qu’on avance, on s’approche de cette belle boule nourricière. Conséquemment, notre ombre rétrécie. Cela réduit donc considérablement notre peur devant celle-ci.
Joli!
Okay, We Give Up
This one has been making the rounds for a couple of days. A bit political but quite interesting.
Alors que je parlais de blogue comme «carré de sable» (au sens de SandBox sur un Wiki), ça commence déjà à ressembler plus à une estrade… Toujours est-il que jouer seul dans un carré de sable, c’est pas très fort, comme principe.
Yes, as could be expected, this blog already turns into a soapbox. Too bad?
The whole principle isn’t that distinct from what’s happening to television these days, with the dominance of “reality shows.” Everyone has an axe to grind and a blog or “reality show” is an opportunity to do things publicly. Echoes of exhibitionism?
Ça reste intéressant, comme principe.
Alexandre
http://dispar.blogspot.com/
03.31-2005 – Alan Dundes, professor of folklore and anthropology, dies
With more information on his career and impact.
Personally, I wasn’t directly affected by his work but the discipline of folkloristics would sure have been much different without him.
To introduce myself…
Right now (30/03/05 17:06:37), I’m a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and I’m a visiting lecturer at Indiana University South Bend’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology for the academic year 2004–2005 (which is coming to an end very soon). I got this position from the Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship program from IUB’s University Graduate
School.
A great program. Each of us teaches one or two semesters at one of the “regional” campuses (any of IU campuses besides Bloomington). Our status is that of full-time faculty but we have a lower teaching load than our colleagues because part of our time is devoted to our dissertation. IUB gives us an amount as fellowship and the regional campus (IUSB in my case) gives us a small salary. Not huge amounts of money altogether, but we’re not in there for the money.
We’re there for the experience. In a very real, direct, and efficient way. We get to participate in every aspect of faculty life, from collegial relationships to faculty meetings. “You can’t pay for that kind of experience!” We also get a faculty mentor at the host institution with whom we’re able to discuss pedagogical issues. Our mentors also help quite a bit in adapting to new teaching conditions.
My own experience at IUSB has been ideal/optimal/great. It’s a very interesting campus. Extremely motivating as a teaching environment because people care about actual learning. And despite the emphasis on teaching, faculty members do get a chance to publish, sometimes more than their colleagues at “Research I” universities (like IUB).
Donc, je suis prof. J’enseigne quoi? Anthropologie culturelle, anthropologie linguistique, études africaines. Du moins, cette année. J’ai aussi enseigné en anthropologie symbolique et anthropologie de la
religion. Mes intérêts me portent aussi vers la musique, l’esthétique et la sémiotique aussi bien que vers l’études des systèmes sociaux décentralisés (réseaux sociaux, communautés d’expérience, etc.). Évidemment, l’aspect linguistique implique les productions verbales, la performance, la littérature orale, etc.
Bon, c’est bien d’être prof et tout ça, mais je suis aussi un être humain. Des tas d’intérêts. Oh, bien sûr, les trucs usuels. La bouffe, les voyages, la musique, la littérature, le cinéma, l’informatique…
Mais ça prend des aspects un peu plus spécifiques, que j’élaborerai plus tard. Après tout, un des avantages d’être sur Blogger (plutôt que sur un site professionnel/académique), c’est de pouvoir parler de mes autres passions.
Yes, I’m a passionate guy. Not in the Spanish Romantic Lover with a rose between his teeth. Although, that could work too.
But more of a passion for life, people, meaning, thoughts, and passion itself.
Ça signifie parfois que j’en fais un peu trop. Déjà , ce blogue semble s’orienter dans cette tendance. Mais bon…
My interests, passions, tastes, ideas are oftentimes very “disparate” (again, hence the blog title) and come out in an apparently incoherent manner. But I like to make links between different things. In new ways, if possible. So what’s common between homebrewing beer and iTunes playlists?
This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Yeah, singular.
Generations Around “Generation X”
I really do see myself as a Post-Buster and don’t feel much of a connection with “Baby Busters” who are, apparently, the real “Generation X” according to this demographic model.
Of course, there’s overlap and all sorts of things. But it appeals to me for reasons not so unknown. I identify real GenXer as those who were told there would be jobs and end up in a very difficult job market dominated by Boomers. We (Post-Busters) were told there wouldn’t be jobs anyway so we should really focus our education on something that would give us an edge.
Not a bad advice. An improvement over that is to say that flexibility and the capacity to reinvent oneself are key.
Nowadays, not only can’t we expect to work at the same job for our whole lives but we can in fact expect that we’ll go from one thing to the next. Job stability is a thing of the past? Well, the thing that replaces it isn’t too shabby. It’s a bunch of people who practice multi-/inter-/polydisciplinarity either sequentially or in parallel. What’s “wrong” with that? Probably a lot. But if we decide to surf the wave instead of fighting it (other fights are more likely to give the expected outcome), we might do what pleases us because we are pleased by what we do.
Yeah, well, it all makes sense when the little voice in my head says it… 😉
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Despite the hype, Sony PSP no sellout in debut
So… Is Sony gambling on the PSP? Maybe Sony should become exclusively a content company… 😉