Academic life and work from Aotearoa New Zealand
I was a Twitter user for a decade. Like many people, I left a few months after Elon Musk bought it since it no longer seemed to connect me to the community I had formed there. I do miss it, but in hindsight, it was probably a good thing. One thing that annoyed me was... Continue Reading →
The following is an 'interlude' that will appear between two chapters of my book, provisionally titled: Guarding Life: A Postcapitalist Politics of Hygiene. The excerpt focuses on the presence of an awkward object in the life of one Chinese Christian migrant worker. The awkward object was the controversial American parenting book 'Babywise', which had recently been... Continue Reading →
So, I am really tired. I am also coming down with something, or just struggling against a low-grade cold. My son is sleeping better this week, but even when he is asleep, I wake up after four hours or so. After all, that's how much sleep I have been accustomed to getting in the last... Continue Reading →
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