Dmitri Lang (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nowinprint) wrote2010-08-26 11:24 am
nowinprint) wrote2010-08-26 11:24 am
[Locked against those with CLF sympathies]
Hello, Chicago!
How does the Rift creolize subcultures? Does a stable city with some vestige of infrastructure around the Rift or a destabilized city constantly reinventing itself demand greater civic engagement and reciprocity between wanderers and natives? How do colonies of exiles turn themselves into established communities?
These are some of the questions addressed in my new thesis, A Sociology of Difference: Riftcomer Culture in Chicago and Rome, coming soon from the Angel of Knowledge Board of the Sciences Press. Best read with a Long Island Iced Tea and chased with Ms. Maria Rebecchini's insightful article The Emerging Hermeneutics of the Roman Journal Network, soon to have a sister article focusing here on the Windy City. It's been a productive two months, full of research, abbaccchio, Mongai readings, and back-to-back tours on the Capitolini card. And I have this to say, on coming home sweet home:
I really can't leave this city alone for five minutes, can I?
There are about fifty of you I need to take out for drinks, stat. You bastards are lucky I get a stipend.
{{OOC: Yes, folken, Dmitri Lang has returned to Chicago. Duck and cover.}}
How does the Rift creolize subcultures? Does a stable city with some vestige of infrastructure around the Rift or a destabilized city constantly reinventing itself demand greater civic engagement and reciprocity between wanderers and natives? How do colonies of exiles turn themselves into established communities?
These are some of the questions addressed in my new thesis, A Sociology of Difference: Riftcomer Culture in Chicago and Rome, coming soon from the Angel of Knowledge Board of the Sciences Press. Best read with a Long Island Iced Tea and chased with Ms. Maria Rebecchini's insightful article The Emerging Hermeneutics of the Roman Journal Network, soon to have a sister article focusing here on the Windy City. It's been a productive two months, full of research, abbaccchio, Mongai readings, and back-to-back tours on the Capitolini card. And I have this to say, on coming home sweet home:
I really can't leave this city alone for five minutes, can I?
There are about fifty of you I need to take out for drinks, stat. You bastards are lucky I get a stipend.
{{OOC: Yes, folken, Dmitri Lang has returned to Chicago. Duck and cover.}}