https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/03/12/teaching-is-like-sex/ critical anthropology of academic culture Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:24:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/03/12/teaching-is-like-sex/#comment-984 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:24:36 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=484#comment-984 eli, thank you for your comment and for stopping by my humble blog. i am rooting for our essay collection, just getting those new perspectives out and talking about the great grad students in anthro that we all know. personally, you are the best of those great grad students in anthro, and i thank you for the grad/anthro socialization project. it gave me a reason to write when all seemed lost. many thanks. ~V

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/03/12/teaching-is-like-sex/#comment-983 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:00:24 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=484#comment-983 I really enjoyed this blog post. This week I wrote a short (rather bad) poem (technology/Internet ‘penetrating’ Africa) about the sexual imagery embedded in the language of Internet technology-as-development-tool in Africa. After posting it, I have been plagued with a sense that I made a mistake bringing this sexuality to the heart of the matter. I’ve been browsing blogs by tech lovers who are creating and implementing tech projects in Africa, from cell phones to laptops to software. All these things just ‘penetrating’ Africa from every possible direction. And no one talks about this rather one-sided kind of electronic sex. 🙂

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