Another day, another promising academic career strangled in the cradle: hometown heroine Julie is blogging food and politics at Gastro-Politico.

Another promising academic career strangled in the... Well, I guess he doesn't really have to worry about that part anymore. UC Davis's Tim Morton (author of Ecology without Nature) has just started a blog. Here he is riding one of my chief hobby-horse, apocalypse:

I believe that one thing we have to get used to is that the ecological catastrophe has already occurred.

The extent to which post-apocalyptic fantasies push the “catastrophe point” forwards into the future is directly proportional to how much we want to ward off the fact that it has already happened.

My friend Lindsey from Duke English is working this summer on Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares, an immersive game built around disaster relief, crisis management, and humanitarian assistance.

Of course, like anything else, the project will have a blog.

Crooked Timber returns to one of the blogosphere's perennial questions: Should budding academics blog? My gut tells me that blogging in the way I do is probably a net negative for my eventual job prospects, but I'm hoping it won't be prohibitively so, and in the meantime it's been strongly positive for me on any number of other fronts, including as a technology for developing and organizing my research.

Blogging! Catch the fever.

Okay, this is funny. In preparing that last post I had occasion to click on a link to my old 2004 election blog, Three Guys, where I'd blogged electoral politics with my good friend Shankar D. and my longtime nemesis Srinivas A. I haven't clicked on any link to Three Guys in a few years because the blog has long since been deleted, ever since someone decided it might be a good idea for him to have a "career" as a "successful lawyer." (Whatever.)

So threeguys.blogspot.com is gone, and has been for a while.

This is what happens when you click on a Three Guys link now:



You're about to be redirected

The blog that used to be here is now at http://girls-sex-toys.hellarity.com/.
Do you wish to be redirected?

Forget academia. I'm never getting hired anywhere.

And still another promising academic career strangled in the cradle: one of my peers here at Duke is blogging about sound and theory under the blogonym "Mr. Bacon."

Still another promising academic career strangled in the cradle: Duke Lit's own Alex Greenberg has a new blog.

Another academic career strangled in the cradle: my good friend Tim Wientzin has started a blog, Bitter Laughter, which takes its name from Beckett:

Of all the laughs that strictly speaking are not laughs, but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us, I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless . . . The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh.

He's started out with some bitter laughs at anti-feminists and the masters of war. Check him out.