Fall is definitely in the air, and the
flexibility and long days of summer freedom are certainly fading fast. I spent
much of my weekend working on projects, proposals, and conference papers for
this academic term, along with all of the other mundane organizational tasks
that so many of you are also dealing with as the new year takes shape. In many
ways, the cooler weather helps ease this transition and I have already been enjoying
getting into a routine and also having a chance to meet and get to know many of the new students enrolled in my lectures and seminars.
The Twitterverse has also been brisk with activity, and I am glad to see so
many new arts and visual culture based and academic players starting to show up
and take advantage of what this dynamic social networking platform has to
offer. Got to run-- Sunday pot roast is almost done in the oven!-- but grab a cup of
coffee and enjoy a few of my favourite tweets from this past week:
Uncreative Writing, Unoriginal Genius,
and the New Literary Plagiarism
The Guggenheim Connection: Fame, Riches
and a Masquerade: As painted by the authorities
Views: #Highered isn't
dying, but radical change is on the way
Untangling the web: how the internet
will grow through rites of passage
Damien Hirst diamond skull is perfect
emblem for "Make Wall Street Pay" activism campaign
Florida art dealer accused of faking
Monets, Pollocks, Rothkos
The future influences the present just
as much as the past.#Nietzsche