WISHCRYS

Care is a system.

“To care about something is more than just happening to believe that something is valuable or to want or to desire something to be the case. Believing, wanting and desiring […]

Brainfarts

Grief, words, and heart medicine.

It is 0227hrs. I have been awake for 42 hours straight. I have x01 articles overdue + x01 articles, x03 revise-and-resubmits, and x03 reviews due this week. But I sit here with a […]

Everyday ethnographies

This is my grandmother.

This is my grandmother admiring a photograph of her wedding portrait on my iPhone. “Hey! How do you have this? There’s only one copy! It’s hanging in Uncle James’ house […]

Music

I am a YouTube binger.

Beep: This post is video heavy. If you’d like to skip to the GOOD part, watch all the Game of Thrones covers at the end. End beep. There has been […]

Coupling

LDRs and affective technologies

This year, I have been traveling a lot for work. I have grown used to asking for a table for one. And ordering ice-cream for one. I have known my […]

Everyday ethnographies

Politics, everyday life, and habitus.

After having spent ten days closely following political rallies and campaigns while tracking social media discourse out of academic interest, I took to the polls on Friday morning to cast […]

Everyday ethnographies

Political rallies and the tactility of collective effervescence.

I’m in the stands at a sports stadium watching a […]

Academica Dramatica

Academia and arrested development.

Hello. My name is Crystal, and it has been ten days since I submitted my PhD thesis for grading. I finished my thesis on a Monday, printed it on a […]

Academica Dramatica

Whoever said it takes a village to finish a PhD,

was probably an anthropologist trying to make a dad joke. […]

Academica Dramatica

The day before thesis submission.

I am submitting my thesis tomorrow. For all the hype over submitting, thesis printing is extremely underwhelming. To you, it’s the end of an era. To the printers, you are […]

Internet culture

Racial discourse and news coverage of the NDR2015 on Twitter.

Singapore’s National Day Rally 2015, the equivalent of the State […]

Everyday ethnographies

Academic precarity and transient intimacies in 28 Tweets.

A series of brainfarts about the most memorable ten-minute cab […]

Academica Dramatica

Revelations from being at The Last Stretch:

A PhD is difficult. A thesis is difficult. Finishing is difficult. Self-doubt is normal. Inferiority complex is normal. Insecurity is normal. Sleep is good. Food is good. Fresh air is […]

Internet culture

The #LoveWins weekend on 9GAG

Following the decision from the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide, this weekend, all the memes came out to play. I tracked 9GAG‘s Hot, […]

Academica Dramatica

Calling all anthropologists who do Internet research!

Dear anthropologists who do Internet-related research, I’m compiling key terms […]

Everyday ethnographies

Transit ethnographies.

One day in the future, I shall produce an ethnography about the Melbourne metro. For now, I’ll just have to reminisce over May 2015 in 14 Tweets. Oh Melbourne metro, […]

Brainfarts

Better static than stasis.

“On distance swims between two islands, I would sometimes stop mid-course to look around. To find myself equidistant between two points gave me the funniest feeling. To think that back […]

Internet culture

Resources on Memes

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Academica Dramatica

So near yet so far.

I feel like I am not supposed to be saying this, but today I feel a bit like death. I reckon many of us near The End feel this way, […]

Academica Dramatica

Behind-the-scenes of thesis-making.

Today, I went back to the first chapter my supervisors ever commented on. This page from March 2014 came back to me with tea blotches, accompanied by a lengthy email bearing feedback… and […]

Internet culture

Social media branding is tricky business.

The thing about the Internet is that you can never truly control how users will perceive, edit, store, or disseminate your information. And if you’re a corporation or a business […]

Academica Dramatica

Airtime.

Every time I present my work, there is always a moment when I lapse into a transient reflexivity and wonder: 1) why I’m speaking so quickly 2) why people are […]

Academica Dramatica

Week one at the DERC.

Hello from my first week at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where I’ll be a Visiting Researcher for a month hosted […]

Internet culture

The Internet is my home.

I feel so disoriented at this point that I am convinced the only constant scape in my life is the Internet. There I know the buttons and the plumbing. Here […]

Brainfarts

9 Murakami in 9 weeks.

I have a Murakami problem. I cannot stop consuming his words and immersing in his life worlds. It all began nine weeks ago when I decided that I could no […]

Everyday ethnographies

Bob.

“Weber is overrated. The only good thing he wrote was the Protestant Ethic. That really impacted society, how we thought about life. Every thing else was forgettable. He was a […]

Brainfarts

force majeure.

This view to this earworm. I feel the need to take ten minutes away from coding and writing to catalogue some precious weekend memories before they seep out of my […]

Academica Dramatica

The bigger picture.

Traveling as a grad student on a very tight budget: You book the cheapest mode of transport with the most transits at the most inconvenient hours. You cook your meals […]

Academica Dramatica

Short-circuit.

Reflecting on how much I paid for this degree, my education is the most expensive thing I own but I’m not sure if it’s the most valuable. This is always […]

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