This semester I’m teaching Weber’s essay on objectivity and social policy. It has been years since I read it — I can tell because all of my marginal notes are littered with references to Habermas, Horkheimer and Adorno. One passage stood out to me: “The fate of an epoch that has eaten from teh tree [...]
When I talk about mining to other academics the connection that they have with this form of primary industry are photographs of people working at mines — Sebastian Salgado’s work, typically. But here’s another one to give people some sense of what these things look like — “Edward Burtynsky’s photography of quarries, mines, etc.”:http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/index.html. The [...]
Two journals that are new for me at least: “Networking Knowledge”:http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/view/1/showToc and “Cultural Sociology”:http://cus.sagepub.com/