PhD life and depression.
I have been in some sort of a lull for two weeks now. Fellow postgrad warriors who know me are aware that my writing habits are rather melodramatic (although not […]
Brainfarts on a dramatic but totally professional and non-chaotic flight.
29Sep14, 23xxhrs. Live monologuing to myself on the Notes App […]
Photologuing Singapore, October 2014.
wishcrys spends seven days in Singapore recalling how to play Singaporean, pretending to fit in, overdosing on local fare, and negotiating the humidity (ermergerd pls send halp). 4 academic talks, 21 […]
week 2 of teaching!
This afternoon, an undergrad stayed back after our workshop and waited until everyone had left to tell me he was really enjoying our classes and wanted me to have this […]
Resources on Instagram
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The Anatomy of a Social Media(ted) Protest: #OccupyCentral on Instagram
I manually track the #OccupyCentral tag on Instagram over 72hrs […]
Microcelebrity Social Media Selfies
Reflecting on Week three of The Selfie Course on selfies and microcelebrity, I thought I would share my take on the types of heterosexual feminine scripts microcelebrity social media personalities in […]
October in Singapore
Hi folks, I’ll be giving four talks in Singapore this October. They are open to the public (although two require you to register – links below). Please come by and […]
Academica Dramatica x Graduation Ceremonies
wishcrys attends her partner’s graduation ceremony and internally monologues through 120 minutes of officious sitting. Graduation ceremonies for parents are like the first day of preschool all over again. All […]
Academica Dramatica x Brainfarts
“It’s not really considered a job right? Aren’t you still a student? When will you get a proper job?” / awkward family conversations “How come they let you teach undergrads, […]
Academica dramatica x the commerce of anthropology
Spotted: Purity & Danger ice cream in the ivory tower […]
SOC4 nostalgia (II) – circa April 2011
it just sunk in. after listening to a voice recording of gana in deviance class that bear put up on facebook. “it has been a pleasure teaching you.” (applause) i […]
SOC4 nostalgia (I) – circa March 2011
i was one of those awkward adolescents who really really loved the anonymity uni life accorded me. no fixed classes. no class registers. no moving everywhere as a group. i […]
Academica Dramatica x Professionalism
Used a selfie (haphazardly taken in the middle of a street while traveling because urgent) for officious institutional memorabilia: Check.
Academica Dramatica x Grasping Air
‘2217hrs I read five books today and I still cannot grasp this concept’ selfie in the office. Also, PhD Selfies.
Brainfarts on shame.
… one major methodological weakness of some of the earlier studies…[was] an ethnocentric tendency to define the phenomenon in terms of its specific attributes in one’s own culture… these studies […]
Musical ambience and intellectual writing.
I am physically unable to write without being plugged in to some form of music. And I also listen to my favourite tracks to death. I feel like my yet-to-be-written […]
Resources on Emoji and Emoticons
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Academica Dramatica x Stage Presence.
On stage, Officious person whispers: “We have to stand here until they stop clapping.” I whisper back: “This is very awkward.” Also, #cataloguingconversations.
Resources on gender bending
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Kafka on power.
… you’re certainly right when you say that compared with Klamm I’m a nobody, and despite the fact that I’m now asking to speak to Klamm and am not even […]
Attempting to wrap up 2014 (yes I know it’s only August)
When did 2014 go? How are we already two-thirds in? […]
Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Twelve.
More jarring societal critique from Barbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford. These people are idiots./ She’s a vampire./ I’m right and you’re wrong./ Talk is cheap./ Stop texting./ Don’t tell […]
I catalogued the ads Twitter fed me over 24 hours.
21Aug14 0206hrs @wishcrys Hey #Twitter, you’re doing it wrong. Jamming […]
My education is a luxury good.
In this weekend’s series of #cataloguingconversations, @wishcrys 23Aug14 1424hrs Ex-student: “I’m so happy to finally not be at work so I can come here [library] to do school work.” /tbh […]
Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Untitled (Titled).
Some gold from Barbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford. Is that all there is?/ Who will write the history of tears?/ Is there life without pain? Some precious people. Exit […]
Pitt Rivers Visuals: Fine.
The last of my Pitt Rivers Museum visuals. Anthropologists like to collect things. Negotiating markers of beauty. Negotiating persona way before the birth of Persona Studies, yo. “AFRICA, MALAWI, MZUZU. […]
Brainfarts on affect.
“Between us there is always transcendence, not as an abstraction or a construct, a fabrication of the same grounding its origin or measuring its development, but as the resistance of […]
Pitt Rivers Visuals: Skulls.
More from the rabbit hole that is Pitt Rivers Museum. “These shrunken heads, or tsantsas, are from the densely forested Upper Amazon region between Peru and Ecuador. The Shuar, Achuar, […]
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