theorywatch

We had a straight line wind incident near our house in Tulsa early the other morning. Apparently one can sleep through tornado sirens, because I did! No damage to our house, though many trees came down in the neighborhood, and power was off for about 30 hours. One doesn’t realize how Net-addicted one is until one is forced to go cold turkey like that!

A good thing about the enforced “idleness,” though, was that I was able to devote my undivided attention to Donald McKenzie’s brilliant essay “Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts.” He dealt in such a prescient way with the various issues that we are having today with “texts”— and this was 25 years ago. And the really good thing is that, having read it, I can now recommend it to all my students (and tell them, no, it’s not at all about “how to cite things”!)