Friday Quick Hits and Varia
- Jan 17, 2025
- 2 min read
I know it’s been a while, but I think that I still now how to quick hit and varia…
It’s downright balmy here in North Dakotaland with temperatures in the mid-30s! We’ll pay for this next week, though, when on Monday the high is supposed to be -10° (which is in Fahrenheit, for anyone who observes).
This weekend is a fun sports weekend for our household. On Sunday, the Eagles play the Rams in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs and then on Monday night, Ohio State plays Notre Dame of the college football championship. Both look to be good games with plenty of drama. The Sixers will continue to sleep walk through the NBA season tonight and next week, the Women’s Ashes moves on to the T20 phase of the competition after last night’s sweep of the ODIs.
Otherwise, this weekend will be focused on getting back into my semester routine, getting a jump on some reading for the next month or so and trying to stay present and focused! For now, some quick hits and varia:
From the Blogs:
Three new articles:
Luca Zavagno’s ‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)
Yannis Hamilakis, ‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university.
Daniel Carvalho, On Plastic, Glass and Silicon: Methodological and Theoretical Reflections of Electronic Waste in Archaeology
Jeremy Huggett on AI
Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise.
A New Suburban Politics (H/t to Sharon Carson!).
What I am reading: Imre Szeman, On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (2019).
What I am listening to: Shabaka, Possession.
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