Sat, May 19th, 2007
As many of you know, I’m hard at work on my next book, Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights. This is pretty much my full-time work these days, and impending deadlines of doom have made in my more-than-full-time work of late (and have also kept me away from the blog). Though I […]
Thu, May 3rd, 2007
No, not in the way you think, you dirty minded person.
I received some great news yesterday. I got a contract to co-edit the book on the social and environmental impacts of nanotechnology that I proposed back in December, titled Size Matters: Nanotechnology, Social Change, and the Environment. We’ll be publishing with Rowman and Littlefield, an […]
Sat, Apr 14th, 2007
Lately, for the work I’ve been doing, I’ve been reading up on the notion of violence. No, I’m not much interested in the violence in the animal rights movement; instead, I’m looking at a different kind of violence.
We tend to think of violence as an interpersonal issue: someone who has punched you in the face […]
Tue, Apr 10th, 2007
The day began with a dog riot.
On occasion, our dogs — for no reason that I can discern — go absolutely and completely bonkers, barking at nothing, and running around the house like Timmy has fallen in the well, or like a mongrel canine horde is beating down our front door. Yet, if you go […]
Thu, Dec 28th, 2006
In addition to my current book Making a Killing, I’m also at the proposal stage with another book on the social and environmental impacts that we can expect from the evolving and interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology. Very few people are writing about the potential impacts of these technologies in a critical way, and a colleague […]
Sat, Nov 25th, 2006
I’m hard at work on my next book, Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, which should be finished in March, but won’t come out until Fall 2007. For the longest time, I was unsure what the hell to call the book. Originally, I proposed the title Consuming Cruelty: Animals, Capitalism, and the […]
Fri, Jun 9th, 2006
Remember the book proposal I mentioned here a few weeks back? Happily, AK Press has decided to publish the book. I just signed the contract, and I’m staring down a heady mixture of both excitement and fear. The mildly scary part is the following contract clause:
“The Author shall deliver to the Publisher one complete […]
Tue, May 16th, 2006
The book proposal I mentioned below is off to aforementioned unnamed press! Tentatively titled Consuming Cruelty: Animals, Capitalism, and the Politics of Veganism, I hope to get a large chunk of this book done this summer. Oh, that and like 3 articles. And a million other things.
Wish me luck. I think I need […]
Tue, Apr 18th, 2006
Fuck, writing books can be hard work.
Well, let me revise that: figuring out how to begin writing is hard. When I have some sense of structure, writing itself isn’t bad—I’m actually pretty fortunate in that once I decide to write, I can crank shit out, and fast. Getting to that stage, however, is […]
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