Blogs & Podcasts

One of the reasons we decided to work with a blog for our Seminar-in-Lockdown was, of course, that both Halberstam and Berlant used to be active academic bloggers. Sadly, though, both blogs aren't as active as they used to be.

Berlant's blog "Supervalent Thought" can be found: (here).

Halberstam is part of a collective, "Bully Bloggers." Their blog can be found here. It's still active.

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The academic blog - which was all the rage, say, 4 years ago, seems, sadly, to have run out of steam. Important academic blogs seem to be now defunct, or are slowly withering away. I am not sure what has replaced it.

A friend suggested that in the larger world the podcast is where it's at, but I am not sure the academic podcast has reached the same level of quality yet. (Although I have enjoyed Urbanomic's Plague Podcast (here)).

The blog, though, seems the perfect medium for the type of analysis that Halberstam & Berlant engaged in: their focus on affect & everyday life invite a type of writing that is pedestrian, small, attentive to fleeting moments and the minutiae of pop culture.

To my mind, the academic blogosphere could have been the perfect supplement to the academic publishing machine, which is, as we all know, sloooooooooooow.