Name Dropping

Reading a paper that is plagued with names and references.

The ideas are lost in the connections to who wrote on them.

Basically, every other sentence has a date in brackets.

End notes would make the conceptual core of the paper far stronger.

I am also having a hard time with a name rather than a detail with a superscript.

In Example : ie

"...in other cases consumption becomes important in the forging of national identity, as in Foster's (1995) study of New Guinea."

Consumption : Daniel Miller

Why not distill the study of Foster's into an idea and use it instead of his name.

Superscript that isht to the back pages.

I equate the use of references in the paper to blogging as follows:

We bought a new couch yesterday (Karlanda 2006).

Bibliography

Karlanda (2006) 'Sectional Corner Sofa - Calgary Furniture For Sale - Kijiji Calgary', Kijiji.ca, March 9th 2009, http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-furniture-couches-futons-Sectional-Corner-Sofa-W0QQAdIdZ110468172

Real blogging is as follows:

We bought a new couch yesterday.

I guess I might be a product of technology's advantages.

Some systems make things easier.

And here's the worst sentence ever:

"This naturalization of capitalism, though at least as pernicious, since vastly more powerful, than the critique of consumption, is, however, less germane to the question of consumption as material culture, since what is remarkably about it is its lack of concern with the specificity of goods or with the wider nature of materiality and its effects."

wtf was Miller thinking.

Did his editor even read the paper?

You must attempt to read the sentence out loud, to get the truest sense of its cumbersome pretentiousness.

I can see why most people steer clear of academic papers.

The content of the ten pages is interesting, yet, it is lost in the writing.

Tomorrow is going to be pretty awesome.

MADT 315 colabs with DRWG 120

We get to bring sound and visuals into the drawing experience.

More on that tomorrow.