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Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality: “What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?”

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New book

My new book is out now - Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users, from Peter Lang
https://www.amazon.com/Pathology-Technology-Killer-Apps-Users/dp/1433148455?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1433148455

Moving to Tumblr

This blog is no longer active. http://drscottclemson.tumblr.com/  is where I'll be posting on academics and research from now on.

Moving In!

Mike and I are so excited to join the Lightsey Bridge community as new Faculty in Residence! 

Respect for Pete Burns

Pete Burns, lead singer for 80s synthpop/dance band Dead or Alive recently passed away. Burns was originally noted as part of the '80s wave of androgynous New Wave (mostly) UK musicians: Boy George, Annie Lennox,  Jeremy Healy of Haysi Fantaysee, Marilyn, and others. After his music stardom faded in the US/UK, he continued to have major success in Japan, and experienced a comeback in the UK as a

One week later: Four thoughts.

UPDATE: Notice my comments are all about me. "I, I, I." Not "you" or "we." These are my thoughts about the choices I'm trying to make, not an argument for what others should or shouldn't be doing. I fought against Reagan/Bush. I blanket opposed everything W said or did. Which was how others treated Obama. I choose to long longer perpetuate that.One week later: Four thoughts.1. I don't support or

Some reflections on my experiences with the tenure process.

I started my current job 6+ years ago. At the end of my 5th year, I started submitting my tenure materials and was tenured last May. I do not come from a family of academics. The highest degree in my family was my birth mother's MA in Folklore. I was so intimated by graduate school that I never even considered it (let alone an academic career) for a decade after I finished college. Once I began

Stuart Hall, Foucault & Trump: New Publication

New publication, just in time for Thanksgiving! Proud to be in the new special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication on the late Stuart Hall. Final section reflects on Trump's rise from my perspective of late summer. Unfortunately full version is under embargo unless you or your institution have a paid subscription. I'll upload a free version when I can.

ABSTRACT
This essay addresses

Technopathology presentation

I'll be presenting Technologies as Epidemics: Contagious, Pathological Usership as part of the panel Relating to the Other: Viral Discourses and the Self during Contagion, the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts 2016 Meeting. It will be at the University of South Carolina – Columbia Oct 13-15. I'm presenting Friday morning.