Or, books I have been reading for class, Part 2. Skipping The Century and Postmodernism and Discipline and Punish to post this, since I have it typed up already: Bauman is awesome because he speaks directly to young people – he talks about "searching out ways of being" and "looking ...

This is an awesome academic paper. It's like reading Japanese science fiction. To wit!"If the relational databases are the brains of the system, RFID tags are the legs. As RFID moves into the environment and become pervasive, it will in my view pose unprecedented challenges and opportunities to ...

Or, books I have been reading for class, Part 1. I think I should probably have read this after Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson, because it is a stab at a solution to a problem I hadn't known existed. XD Namely, ...

I left a couple of long comments to this post by rachelmanija, about children's novels protagonists I could identify with growing up. Most of the commenters said they couldn't find themselves in YA novels, but I think I was pretty well represented in the fiction I read, actually. ...

This description of the fourth book in John Burdett's Royal Thai Police series is for Kara. Sorry for the wait, ! So, let's recap: in the first book in this series, Sonchai, an addict turned Buddhist arhat (saint) turned non-corrupt - because he has renounced all material things, not because ...