Book Progress Report, Week 23, 24, and 25
It was a quiet couple of weeks on the book front. I finished up a first complete draft of my Media Refusal and Conspicuous Non-Consumption paper, and then got slammed with end of the semester grading....
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 26
So, despite getting absorbed in revising my Facebook refusal paper, I was able to meet my goal of putting away the Sexuality chapter by the end of this week. There are still a few places where the...
View ArticleThe Identity Chapter (or, what I’m thinking about for the next month)
This is the roadmap for the second-to-last chapter of Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism. It’s written – just needs to be revised. I’m pumped. So far, this book has examined specific practices of...
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 27
Today is one of those days I sat down at my computer to write a little bit and just can’t muster up the will to do it. This chapter is really giving me trouble – I think no matter how many times I...
View ArticleMad Men Spoilers as Class Warfare?
I wrote this several weeks ago now (when the new seasons of everyone’s favorite Quality TV shows were just premiering) and shelved it. But now that it’s season finale time, it feels apt enough to toss...
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 28
So yes, the notion that I would finish that chapter draft by last Tuesday was indeed a pipe dream. I’ve been working on it every day since then and I think it’s only gotten more complicated and...
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 29
I’m very happy to report that it took exactly a week’s worth of work to get the Identity chapter into the form of a complete draft, so I put that to bed on Friday! My plan now is to work on the final...
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 30
So I just finished re-reading the four body chapters from the book manuscript. I, predictably, vacillated between feeling like “ok, this is great” and “ugh this is all I have to show for the past 5...
View ArticleMajor arguments of Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism
Over the past couple days I’ve gone through the four body chapters of the book manuscript, and attempted to identify the major arguments I’m making/want to make with this book. As a writing exercise,...
View ArticleBook Progress Report, Week 31 and 32
It’s been an ok couple of weeks. Not a ton of progress to report, partly because I got a revise and resubmit on an unrelated manuscript and wanted to get those revisions squared away and out of my...
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